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Wrong ; injury; the opposite of right So called, according to Lord Coke, be cause it is wrested, or crooked, being contrary to that which is right and straight. Co. Litt 1586.
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Wrong ; injury; the opposite of right So called, according to Lord Coke, be cause it is wrested, or crooked, being contrary to that which is right and straight. Co. Litt 1586.
L. Fr. All one sound; sounding the same ; idcvi sonans. Toute exception non surveillee tend & prendre la place du principe. Every exception not watched tends to assume the place of
A person engaged in trade; one whose business is to buy and sell mer- chandise, or any class of goods, deriving a profit from his dealings. 2 Kent, Comm. 389; State v.
A strolling beggar; a vagrant or vagabond. See State v. Hogan, 63 Ohio St. 202, 58 N. E. 572, 52 L. R. A. 863, 81 Am. St. Rep. 626; Miller v. State,
Span. A transcript
In pleading. One who traverses or denies. A prisoner or party indicted; so called from his traversing the indictment.
In old records. The season or time of sowing summer corn, being about March, the third month, to which the word may allude. Cowell. Tres faciunt collegium. Three make a corporation ;
The court held for a triding or trithing. Cowell.
L. Fr. In old pleading. A rejoinder in pleading; the defendant’s answer to the plaintiff’s replication. Britt. c. 77.
In English law. This name is given to the statute 1 & 2 Wm. IV. c. 37, passed to abolish what is commonly called the “truck system,” under which employers were in
Under St. 13 Car. II. St. 1, c.
In the civil law. This term corresponds nearly to “guardian.” (f. c., a person appointed to have the care of the person of a minor and the administration of his estate,) except
in the singular num-TYTHE. Tithe, or tenth part ber, includes all the year; but tivclio months are to be computed according to twenty-TYTHING. A company of ten; a dis- eight days for
Lat A notary, or ta- bellio. Calvin.
In Scotch law. An entail. A tailzied fee is that which the owner, by exer- cising his inherent right of disposing of his property, settles upon others than those to whom it
A case reported In Yearb. 12 Edw. IV. 19-21, which is regarded as having established the foundation of common recoveries.
One who keeps a tavern. One who keeps an Inn; an innkeeper.
Spreading. Tedding grass is spreading it out after it is cut in the swath. 10 East, 5.
A religious order of knighthood, instituted about the year 1110, and so called because the members dwelt iu a part of the temple of Jerusalem, aud not far from the sepulclier of
In old English law. To tender or offer. Cowell.
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