In Saxon law. The head or chief officer of a borough ; chief of thefrankpledge tithing or decennary. This office was afterwards, when the petty constablesliipwas created, united with that office.

A syllabus to a reported case: a summary of the points decided in thecase, which is placed at the head or beginning of the report.

In the laws of the republic of Texas, a certificate issued under authority of an act of 1939,which provided that every person immigrating to the republic between October 1, 1937, and January

In old English law. One of the services to be rendered by a thane,but In what it consisted seems uncertain.

In Saxon law. A court-baron; an ecclesiastical court.

In Saxon law. A sort of pillory, by which the head of the culprit wascaught between two boards, as feet are caught in a pair of stocks. Cowell.

One who heals or cures ; specifically, one who professes to cure bodilydiseases without medicine or any material means, according to the tenets and practicesof so-called “Christian Science,” whose beliefs and practices,

Another name for a curative act or statute. See Lockhart v. Troy, 43 Ala. 5S4.

Freedom from sickness or suffering. The right to the enjoyment of healthis a subdivision of the right of persona! security, one of the absolute rights of persons.1 Bl. Comm. 120, 134. As

Free from disease or bodily ailment, or any state of the system peculiarlysusceptible or liable to disease or bodily ailment. Bell v. Jeffreys, 35 N. C. 350.

A term applied to that species of testimony given by a witness whorelates, not what he knows personally, but what others have told him, or what he hasheard said by others. Ilopt

A tax levied in England by St. 14 Car. II. c. 10, consisting of twoshillings on every hearth or stove in the kingdom. It was extremely unpopular, and wasabolished by 1 W.

In English law. A species of modus or composition for tithes. Anstr.323. 320.

In criminal law. A state of violent and uncontrollable rage engendered by a blow or certain other provocation given, which will reduce a homicidefrom the grade of murder to that of manslaughter.

In maritime parlance and admiralty law. To stop a sailing vessel’sheadway by bringing her head “into the wind,” that is, iu the direction from which thewind blows. A steamer is said to

An unlawful fisher in the Thames below London bridge; so calledbecause they generally fished at ebbing tide or water. 4 Hen. VII. c. 15; Jacob.

In Saxon law. The privilege of having the goods of a thief, and thetrial of him. within a certain liberty. Cowell.

A device for catching fish in ebbing water. St. 23 Hen. VIII. c. 5.

A week’s man; the canon or prebendary in a cathedral church, whohad the peculiar care of the choir and the offices of it for his own week. Cowell.

In feudal law. Rent paid to a lord of the fee for a liberty to use the engines called “hocks.”