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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.

The renunciation, repudiation, abandonment, or surrender of some claim, right, privilege, or of the opportunity to take advantage of some select, irregular- Vity, or wrong. The passing by of an occasion to

In English law. A local division of the country; the name is in use north of the Trent to denote a hundred. The derivation of the name is said to be from

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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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.

This term sometimes denotes all persons whatsoever who may have, claim,or acquire an interest in the subject-matter; as in saying that a judgment in rem binds”all the world.”

This Is either a writ of dower unde nihil habet, which lies for awidow, commanding the tenant to assign her dower, no part of which has yet been setoff to her; or

In Scotch law. Wrongful; unlawful; as wrongous imprisonment f| Ersk.Priu. 4, 4, 25.

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.