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This phrase means that a person whose estate is divested by usurpation cannot expel the possessor by mere entry, but must have recourse to an action, either possessory or droitural. Mozley &

A writ issued under the St. 18 & 19 Vict. c. G7, for summary procedure on bills of exchange and promissory notes, abolished by rule of court in 18S0. Wharton.

Lat. In Roman law. An oflicer corresponding in some respects to a notary. His business was to draw legal instruments, (contracts, wills, etc.,) and witness their execution. Calvin.

In Scotch law. A term corresponding to the English “lease,” and denoting the same species of contract.

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

The statute 39 & 40 Geo. III. c. 98, which restricted accumula- tions to a term of twenty-one years from the testator’s death. It was passed iu conse- quence of litigation over

The most general denomination of the subjects of property, as contra- distinguished from persons. 2 Bl. Comm. 16. The word “estate” in general is applicable to anything of which riches or fortune

A middle line; a line running through the middle of a stream or road. See FILUM; FILUM AQU.E; FILUM VI^E.

lottery tickets, etc. See Allaire v. Howell Works Co., 14 N. J. Law, 24. In election law. A ticket is a paper upon which is written or printed the names of the

Wood felled for building or other such like use. In a legal sense it generally means (in England) oak, ash. and elm, but in some parts of England, and generally in America,

In English law. The tenth part of the increase, yearly arising and renewing from the profits of lands, the stock upon lands, and the personal industry of the inhabitants. 2 Rl. Conuu.