A species of socage tenure common in Kent, in England, where thelands descend to all the sous, or heirs of the nearest degree, together; may bedisposed of by will; do not escheat

An oilicer of the English crown having the general management of themines, pits, and quarries in the Forest of Dean and Hundred of St. Rriavel’s, subject, insome respects, to the control of

The official publication of the English government, also called the “LondonGazette.” It is evidence of acts of state, and of everything done by the king in hispolitical capacity. Orders of adjudication in

An Anglo-Saxon term, meaning “conveyed.”

In Saxon law. To convey; to transfer hoc land, (book-land or land heldby charter.) The grantor was said to gebo- cidn the alienee. See 1 Reeve. Eng. Law, 10.

In old English law. Neighborhood or adjoining district. Cowell.

In Saxon law. Money or tribute. A mulct, compensation, value, price. Angcldwas the single value of a thing; twigcld, double value, etc. So, wc.regcld was the valueof a man slain ; orfgcld,

In old English law. Taxable ; geldable.

Liable to pay geld; liable to be taxed. Kelham.

The head of a family.

In Saxon law. A villeiu, or agricultural tenant, (villunus villicus;) a hind orfarmer, (firmarius rusticus.) Spelman.

Lat. In the civil law. A son- in-law ; a daughter’s husband. (Filia: vir.) Dig. 38, 10, 4, 0.

Pertaining to, or designating, the genus or class, as distinguished fromthat which characterizes the spccics or individual. Universal, not particularized; as opposedto special. Principal or central; as opposed to local. Open or

The usual commons In a religious house, distinguished from pietan- tiw,which on extraordinary occasions were allowed beyond the commons. Cowell.Generale dictum generaliter est inter- pretandum. A general expression is to beinterpreted generally.

Chiefs of the several orders of monks, friars, and other religious societies.

The issue or offspring of a mother-monastery. Cowell.

May mean either a de gree of removal in computing descents, or asingle succession of living beings in natural descent. McMillan v. School Committee, 107N. C. 609, 12 S. E. 330, 10

Lat. Gentleman; a gentleman. Spelman.

A degree of consanguinity. Spelman.

Lat. In Roman law. A tribe or clan; a group of families, connected by commondescent and bearing the same name, being all free-born aud of free ancestors,and in possession of full civic