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A person summoned to act as a juror from among the by-standers in the court. Linehan v. State, 113 Ala. 70. 21 South. 497; Shields v. Niagara County Sav. Bank, 5 Thomp.

In Mexican law. Tlie right enjoyed by an usufructuary of property, of buying the property at the same price at which the owner offers It to any other person, or Is willing

Lat. In Itoman law. Taxation or assessment of damages; the assessment, by the judge, of the amount of damages to be awarded to a plaintiff, aud particularly in the way of reducing

Sax. In old English law. Land of a thane or Saxon noble; land granted by the crown to a thane or lord. Cowell; 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 5.

the merits can be had. Jesse French Tiano Co. v. Porter, 134 Ala. 302, 32 South. 678, 92 Am. St. Rep. 31; Calvert v. State, 34 Neb. 616, 52 N. W. 687.

Lat. In the civil law. To hold; to hold fast; to have in possession; to retain. In relation to the doctrine of possession, this term expresses merely the fact of manual detention,

Tn Scotch law. Dower; a widow’s right of dower, or a right to a life- estate in a third part of the lands of which her husband died seised.

barren land.

The state or condition of leaving a will at one’s death. Opposed to “intestacy.”

Evidence of a witness; evidence given by a witness, under oath or affirmation; as distinguished from evidence derived from writings, and other sources. Testimony is not synonymous with evidence. It is but

In Saxon law. The power of having jurisdiction over uaifs or villeins, with their suits or offspring, lauds, goods, and chattels. Co. Litt 110a.

persons, things, and actions. Civ. Code La. art. 448 Such permanent objects, not being persons, as are sensible, or perceptible through the senses. Aust. Jur.

In criminal law. A menace; a declaration of one’s purpose or intention to work injury to the person, property, or rights of another. A threat has been defined to be any menace

In order that a river may be “tidal” at a given spot, it may not be necessary that the water should be salt, but the spot must be one where the tide,

A service by which tenants were bound to carry timber felled from the woods to the lord’s house. Cowell. TIME 1156 TIPSTAFF

One of the civil divisions of England, being a portion of that greater di- vision called a “hundred.” It was so called because ten freeholders with their families composed one. It Is

To bar, defeat, or take away; thus, to toll the entry means to deny or take away the right of entry.

In old English law. A custom or impost upon wines and other mer- chandise exported or imported, according to a certain rate per ton. Spelman; Cowell.

Lat. With all one’s might or power; with all his might; very strenuously.

Lat. In the civil law. A beam or rafter of a house. Calvin. In old English law. A measure of grain, containing twenty-four sheaves; a thrave. Spelman.