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The feast of Pentecost, being the fiftieth day after Easter, and thefirst of the four cross-quarter days of the year. Wharton.

A devise to B. and his children or issue, B. having no issueat the time of the devise, gives him an estate tail; but, if he have issue at the time, B.and

In Saxon law. Half a hide of land, or sixty acres.

Sax. In old records. A field. Spelman; Cowell.

This term means sometimes a mill, factory, or other establishment for performingindustrial labor of any sort, (South St. Joseph Land Co. v. Pitt 114 Mo. 135, 21S. W. 449,) and sometimes a

A writ which lies where a party claims the specific recovery ofgoods and chattels, or deeds and writings, detained from him. This is seldom used;trover is the more frequent remedy, In cases

In thelanguage of pleading, this phrase is approNpriateto be used in alleging the malicious motive of the defendant in committing theInjury which forms the cause of action.

In England. An officer of the exchequer whose duty itwas to write upon the tallies the letters of tellers’ bills.

L. Fr. A vagabond, or vagrant. Britt. c. 29.

The chief magistrate of Ripon, in Yorkshire.

A state of forcible contention; an armed contest between nations; a state of hostility between two or more nations or states. Gro. de Jur. B. lib. 1, c. 1. Every connection by

A person to whom a warranty is made.

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Sax. A wood; the woody part of a country.

In old records. A large extent of ground, comprising several juga; a perambulation;a circuit Spelman; Cowell.

Technical words in pleading, formerly necessary in making fulldefense to certain actions.

In old English law. A class of offenders who whitened stolen oxhidesand horse-hides so that they could not be known and identified.

merit. MeDaniel v. Johns, 45 Miss. 041. And see Jasper v. Jasper, 17 Or. 590, 22 Pac.152; Leathers v. Greenacre, 53 Me. 507; Cover v. Stem, 07 Md. 449, 10 Atl. 231,

To know; to learn; to be informed. Used only in the infinitive, to-cit, whichterm is equivalent to “that is to say,” “namely,” or “videlicet.”

In old records. A certain quantity of oats or other grain, paid bycustomary tenants to the lord, for liberty to pick up dead or broken wood. Cowell.