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A sign or mark; a material evidence of the existeuce of a fact. Thus, cheating by “false tokens” implies the use of fabricated or deceitfully contrived material objects to assist the person’s

In English law. A duty imposed by parliament upon merchandise exported and imported, according to a certain rate upon every ton. Brown. In American law. A tax laid upon vessels according to

Lat. In so many words.

A poison; a toxic agent; any substance capable of producing toxica- tion or poisoning.

In old English law. A traitor; one guilty of high treason. Fleta, lib. 1, c. 21,

Lat. In old English law. A crossing of the strait, [of Dover;] a passing or sailing over from England to France. The royal passages or voyages to Gascony, Brittany, and other parts

The removal of goods or persons from one place to another, by a carrier. See Railroad Co. v. Pratt, 22 Wall. 133, 22 L. Ed. 827; Interstate Commerce Coin’n v. Brimson, 154

A treasure is a thing hidden or buried in the earth, on which no one can prove his property, and which is discovered by chance. Civil Code La. art. 3423, par. 2.

An allowance made for the water or dust that may be mixed with any com- modity. It differs from tare, (q. v.)

Lat. In the civil law. A great-grandson’s or great-granddaughter’s great- grandson. A male descendant iu the sixth degree. Inst. 3, 6, 4.

Lat. In old English law. A trithing man or constable of three hundred. Cowell.

A word occasionally, though rarely, used as a designation of the creator, donor, or founder of a trust

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.

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