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is a custom regulating the manner in which tin is obtained from waste-land, or land which has formerly been waste-land, within certain districts in Corn- wall and Devon. The custom is described

In Roman law. A proper name, frequently used in designating an indefinite or fictitious person, or a person referred to by way of illustration. “Titius” and “Seius,” in this use, correspond to

A prison; a customhouse ; an exchange; also the place where goods are weighed. Wharton.

Lat In old English law. A shaving, or polling; the having the crown of the head shaven; tonsure. One of the peculiar badges of a clerk or clergyman.

It was an ancient superstition that the body of a murdered man would bleed freshly when touched by his murderer. Hence, in old criminal law, this was resorted to as a means

You deliver to bail. In old English practice. The name of a writ which might be issued in behalf of a party who, upon the writ de odio ct alia, had been

In old Scotch law. A roll containing the particular dittay taken up upon malefactors, which, with the portcous, is delivered by the justice clerk to the coroner, to the effect that the

Lat. To go, or pass over; to pass from one tiling, person, or place to another.

In medical jurisprudence. A wound; any injury to tlie body caused by ex- ternal violence.

In international law. An agreement between two or more independent states. Brande. An agreement, league, or contract between two or more nations or sovereigns, formally signed by commissioners properly authorized, and solemnly

Lat. In the civil law. To give: to distribute.

One of the four terms of the English courts of common law, beginning on the 22d day of May, and end- ing on the 12th of June. 3 Steph. Comm. 562.

A weigher of wool. Co- well.

In Spanish law. Objections or exceptions to witnesses. White, New Recop. b. 3, tit 7, c. 10.

Lat. In the civil law. Tutelage: that species of guardianship which continued to the age of puberty; the guardian being called “tutor,” and the ward, “pu- pillus.” 1 Dom. Civil Law, b.

In old English law, a tumbrel, castigatory, or ducking stool, anciently used as an instrument of punishment for common scolds.

In Louisiana. A list of creditors of an insolvent estate, stating what each is entitled to. Taylor v. Hollander, 4 Mart. N. S. (La.) 535.

Limited; abridged; reduced; curtailed, as a fee or estate in fee, to a certain order of succession, or to certain heirs.

L. Lat. A term including all taxes. 2 Inst. 532; People v. Brooklyn, 9 Barb. (N. Y.) 551; Bernards Tp. v. Allen, 61 N. J. Law. 22S, 39 Atl. 716.

In the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk, the lords of manors anciently claimed tlie privilege of having their tenants’ flocks or sheep brought at night upon their own demesne lands, there to