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In old European law. An extraordinary kind of composition for an offense, consisting of three times nine, or twenty-seven times the single geld or pay- ment. Spelman.

Money formerly collected and raised in London, and the several counties of England, towards providing harness and maintenance for the militia, etc.

In Spanish law. Tort Las Partidas, pt 7, tit 6, 1. 5.

Lat. In the civil law. An action of tutelage; an action which lay for a ward or pupil, on the termination of tutelage, against the tutor or guardian, to compel au account

Arbitrary or despotic government; the severe and autocratic exercise of sovereign power, either vested constitutionally in one ruler, or usurped by him by breaking down the division and distribution of governmental powers.

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

Within the meaning of an exemption law, a “team” consists of either one or two horses, with their harness and the vehicle to which they are customarily attached for use. Wilcox v.

That labor which a tenant was bound to do for his lord for a certain number of days.

distinguished from copyhold by many of its incidents. 2. The so-called tenant-right of renewal is the expectation of a lessee that his lease will be renewed, in cases where it is an

A term of heraldry, meaning orange color. In engravings it should be represented by lines in bend sinister crossed by others bar-ways. Heralds who blazon by the names of the heavenly bodies,

This name is sometimes given to property of such a nature that its duration is not perpetual or indefinite, but is limited or liable to terminate upon the happening of an event

In English law. A land- roll or survey of lands, containing the quantity of acres, tenants’ names, and such like; and in the exchequer there is a terrier of all the glebe

I.at. In the civil law. To testify; to attest; to declare, publish, or make known a thing before witnesses. To make a will. Calvin.

Germ. A term used in topography to designate a line representing the deepest part of a continuous depression in the surface, such as a watercourse; hence the middle of the deepest part

Government of a state by the immediate direction of God, (or by the assumed direction of a supposititious divinity.) or the state thus governed.

Following next after the second ; also, with reference to any legal In- strument or transaction or judicial proceeding, any outsider or person not a party to the affair nor immediately concerned

In Saxon and old English law. The third part of a county; a divisiou of a county consisting of three or more hundreds. Cowell. Corrupted to the modern “riding,” which is still