WARRANT, n
1. A writ or precept from a competent authority in pursuance of law, directing the doing of an act, and addressed to an officer or person competent to do the act, and
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1. A writ or precept from a competent authority in pursuance of law, directing the doing of an act, and addressed to an officer or person competent to do the act, and
Atreaty signed on May 8, 1871, between Great Britain and the United States of America,with reference to certain differences arising out of the war between tbe northern andsouthern states of the Union,
In a legislativeTbody, the “committee on ways and means” is a committee appointed to inquire intoand consider the methods and sources for raising revenue, and to propose means forproviding the funds needed
See MORTGAGE.
Duty or toll paid for carts, etc., passing over certain ground. Cowell.
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.
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.