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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.

Waifs are goods found, but claimed by nobody; that of which every one waives the claim. Also, goods stolen and waived, or thrown away by the thief in his flight, for fear

Beads made of shells, used as money by the North American Indians, and which continued current in New York as late as 1093.

under the old practice of the English court of probate, was a notice given by a registrar of the principal registry to a person who had entered a caveat, warning him, within

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.

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.

L. Lat. In old European law. A mark or sign; a mark set up on land, to denotean exclusive occupation, or to prohibit entry. Spelman.

A royal forest founded by Henry VIII.

in a deed or other formal instrument, is that part which comesafter the recitals, or, where there are no recitals, after the parties. It usually commences with a reference to the agreement

In medical jurisprudence. A popular name for malignantanthrax, a disease characterized by malignant pustules or carbuncles, caused byInfection by putrid animal matter containing the bacillus anthracis, and chiefly prevalentamong persons whose business

See DeBONO ET MALO; ASSIZE.

This was a writ which lay for one who had the right of property,against another who had the right of possession and the actual occupation. The writproperly lay only to recover corporeal