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A term in English law for a place in which birds, fishes, or wild beasts arekept.A franchise or privilege, either by prescription or grant from the king, to keep beastsand fowls of

A mark indicating the highest point to which water rises, or thelowest point to which it sinks.

In English law. A duty or toll paid for weighing merchandise. It is called”tronage” for weighing wool at the king’s beam, or “pesagc” for weighing otheravoirdupois goods. 2 Chit Com. Law, 10.

1226

In English law. Rents paid in silver, and called “white rents,” or”redditus albi,” to distinguish them from rents payable in corn, labor, provisions, etc.,called “black-rent” or “black-mail.”

The state or condition of being a widow. An estate is sometimessettled upon a woman “during widowhood,” which is expressed in Latin, “durante viduitate.”

An opening made in the wall of a house to admit light and air, and tofurnish a view or prospect The use of this word in law is chiefly iu connection with

In the primary sense of the word, a witness is a person who has _knowledge of an event. As the most direct | mode of acquiring knowledge of an eventis by seeing

The seat of the lord chancellor of England in the house of lords, beinga large square bag of wool, without back or arms, covered with red cloth. Webster;Brande.

A precept in writing, couched in the form of a letter, running in the name of the king, president, or state, issuing from a court of justice, and sealed with its seal,addressed

(1) A general designation of any form of process issuing from anappellate court and intended to bring up for review the record or decision of the courtbelow. Burrell v. Burrell, 10 Mass.

The expression of ideas by letters visible to the eye. Clason v. Bailey, 14Johns. (N. Y.) 491. The giving an outward aud objective form to a contract, will, etc.,by means of letters

In feudal and old English law. Timber for wagons or carts. WAINABLE 1216 WALL

In Scotch law. A wand or staff carried by the messenger of a court, and which, when deforced, (that is, hindered from executing process.) he breaks, as a symbol of the deforcement,

In old records. Garniture; furniture; provision. Cowell.

In Saxon law. A customary or usual tribute or contribution towardsarmor, or the arming of the forces.

In the language of brokers, adding to the capital stock of acorporation by the issue of new stock, without increasing the real value represented bythe capital.

1225

Tlie laws of the West Saxons, which obtained in the counties tothe south and west of England, from Kent to Devonshire. Blackstone supposes theseto have been much the same with the laws

A kind of esquires. Cowell.