In Spanish law. A right of way for narrow carts. White, New Recop. 1. 2, c. 0,

In old English law. That which was given for safe conduct through astrange territory, or another’s territory. Cowell.The office of guiding of travelers through dangerous and unknown ways. 2 Inst. 520.

An Iron or steel plate to be attached to a rail for the purpose otguiding to their place on the rail wheels thrown off the track. Pub. St. Mass. 1SS2, p.1291.

The name of a treatise on maritime law, by an unknownauthor, supposed to have been written about 1071 at Rouen, and considered, incontinental Europe, as a work of high authority.

A voluntary association of persons pursuing the same trade, art, profession,or business, such as printers, goldsmiths, wool merchants, etc., united under a distinctorganization of their own. analogous to that of a corporation,

The hall or place of meeting of a guild, or gild.The place of meeting of a municipal corporation. 3 Steph. Comm. 173, note. Themercantile or commercial gilds of the Saxons are supposed

An instrument for decapitation, used in France for the infliction of thedeath penalty on convicted criminals, consisting, essentially, of a heavy and weightedknife-blade moving perpendicularly between grooved posts, which is made to

In criminal law. That quality which imparts criminality to a motive or act, andrenders the person amenable to punishment by the law.That disposition to violate the law which has manifested itself by

Having committed a crime or tort: the word used by a prisoner in pleadingto an. indictment when he confesses the crime of which he is charged, and by the juryin convicting. Com.

A coin formerly issued by the English mint, but all these coins were calledin in the time of Wm. IV. The word now means only the sum of

The first of August, being the day of St. Peter ad Vinculo.

The heraldic name of the color usually called “red.” The word is derived from the Arabic word “gule,” a rose, and was probably introduced by the Crusaders. Gules is denoted in engravings

Wears. Jacob.

Jutes; one of the three nations who migrated from Germany to Britain at auearly period. According to Spelman, they established themselves chiefly in Kent and the Isle of Wight.

The diminutive of a sewer. Callis, Sew. (80,) 100. In modern law, an open ditch or conduit designed to allow the passage of water from one point to another in a certain

Maid’s fee. A British word signifying a customary fine payable tolords of some manors on marriage of the tenant’s daughters, or otherwise on theircommitting incontinence. Cowell.

A place of execution. Jacob.

Waif, or waived; that which has been stolen and afterwards dropped in thehighway for fear of a discovery. Cowell.

The name of a court which was held every three weeks In the liberty orhundred of Pathbew in Warwick. Jacob.

Sax. Compensation for fraud or trespass. Cowell.