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Sax. In old English law. A customary service which tenants paid totheir lords, in cutting down their corn, or doing other harvest duties; as if a covenant toreap for the lord at

Belg. In European law. Contribution for jettison; average

A Mongolian is not a “white person,” within the meaning of the term as used In the naturalization laws of the United States; the term applies only to persons of the Caucasian

Sax. A village, town, or district. Hence, in composition, the territory overwhich a given jurisdiction extends. Thus, “bailiwick” is the territorial jurisdiction of abailiff or sheriff or constable. “Sheriffwick” was also used

A statute passed in the thirteenth year of the reign ofEdward I., by which the old Saxon law of police was enforced, with many additionalprovisions. 2 Iteeve, Eng. Law, 163; Crabb, Hist.

Without limit;

A forest; land covered with a large and thick collection of natural forest

An aggravated species of assault and battery, consisting in one persongiving another some dangerous hurt 3 Bl. Comm. 121.Wreccum marls significat ilia bona quae naufragio ad terram pelluntur. Awreck of the sea

In English law. By the statute 31 Eliz. c. 3, when anexigent Is sued out, a writ of proclamation shall issue at the same time, commandingthe sheriff of the county where the

The compensation agreed upon by a master to be paid to a servant, or any other person hired to do work or business for him. In maritime law. The compensation allowed to

An erection of stone, brick, or other material, raised to some height, and in- tended for purposes of security or inclosure. In law, this term occurs in such compounds WALL 1217 WARD

A place adapted to the reception and storage of goods and mer chandise. State v. Huffman, 136 Mo. 58, 37 S. W. 797; Owen v. Boyle, 22 Me. 47; State v. Wilson,

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As designating a commodity or a subject of ownership, this term has thesame meaning in law as in common speech ; but in another sense, and especially in theplural, it may designate

A period of seven consecutive days of time; and, In some uses, the periodbeginning with Sunday and ending with Saturday. See Leach v. Burr, 1SS U. S. 510, 23Sup. Ct. 393, 47

A city immediately adjoining London, and forming a part of themetropolis; formerly the seat of the superior courts of the kingdom.

In Scotch law. A fictitious offerer or bidder at a roup or auctionsale. Bell.

A woman whose husband is dead, and who has not married again. The”king’s widow” was one whose deceased husband had been the king’s tenant in capite;she could not marry again without the

The name applied In England to the process of settling the accountsand liquidating the assets of a partnership or company, for the purpose of makingdistribution and dissolving the concern.

In pleading. Formal words used in pleadings by way oftraverse, particularly by way of special traverse, (q. v..) importing an express denialofRsome matter of fact alleged in a previous pleading.. Steph. PI.