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Lat In the civil law. A third person intervening; a third person who comes in between the par- ties to a suit; one who interpleads. Gilbert’s Forum Rom. 47.

In practice. The concluding clause, commencing with the word “Witness,” etc. A writ which bears the teste is sometimes said to be tested. “Teste” is a word commonly used in the last

Any edifice used for the purpose of dramatic or operatic or other representations, plays, or performances, for admission to which entrance-money is re- ceived, not including halls rented or used occasionally for

A law-maker; a lawgiver.

Fixing “this day six months,” or “three months,” for the next stage of a bill, is one of the modes in which the house of lords and the house of commons reject

One of the “barbarian codes,” as they are termed; supposed by Montesquieu to have been given by Theod- oric, king of Austrasia, to the Thuringians, who were his subjects. Esprit des Lois,

Lat. A civil-law term for building material; timber.

A place where intoxicating driuks are sold in drams or small quantities to be drunk on the premises, and where men resort for drinking purposes. See Leesburg v. Putuam, 103 Ga. 110,

In old English law. The owner of a toft. Cowell; Spelman.

A measure of weight; differently fixed, by different statutes, at two thousand pounds avoirdupois, (1 Rev. St N. Y. 009,

In old English practice. A word written by the foreign opposer or other officer opposite to a debt due the king, to denote that it was a good debt; which was hence

1. In surveys of the public buul of the United States, a “township” is a division of territory six miles square, containing thirty-six sections. 2. In some of the states, this is

Lat In the civil law. Delivery ; transfer of possession; a derivative mode of acquiring, by which the owner of a corporeal thing, having the right and the will of aliening it,

To carry or pass over; to pass a thing over to another; to convey.

In the civil law. The right which heirs or legatees may have of passing to their successors the inheritance or legacy to which they were entitled, if tliey happen to die without

The offense of attempting to overthrow the government of the state to which the offender owes allegiance; or of betraying the state into the hands of a foreign power. Webster. In England,

One who has committed trespass; one who unlawfully enters or in- trudes upon another’s land, or unlawfully and forcibly takes another’s personal property.

In old English law. One who has been thrice married; one who, at different times and successively, has had three wives ; a trigamist. 3 Inst. 88.

Lat. In the civil law. A great-grandfather’s great-grandfather; the male ascendant in the sixth degree.

In Scotch law. The maker y or creator of a trust.