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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

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

Buildings belong to [go with] the soil. Fleta, lib. 3, c. 2,

To establish the amount which oue amerced in a courtleet should pay.

To confirm It on oath in the exchequer. Cowell; Blount; Spelman.

A trading corporation is a commercial corporation engaged In buying and selling. The word “trading,” is much narrower in scope than “business,” as applied to corporations, and though a trading corporation is

Companies chartered in one state without any intention of doing business therein, but which carry on their business and operations wholly In other states. Slate v. Georgia Co., 112 N. C. 34,

A rate of costs given in certain actions, consisting, according to its technical import, of the common costs, half of these, and half of the latter. 2 Tidd, Pr. 988. The word