A hired soldier who departs without license. 4 Inst. 128.

In English law. An offense against religion, consisting not in a total denialof Christianity, but of some of its essential doctrines, publicly and obstinately avowed. 4Bl. Comm. 44, 45. An opinion on

A general, leader, or commander ; also a baron of the realm. Du Fresne.

This word simply denotes time past, in distinction from time presentor time future, and has no definite and precise signification beyond this. Andrews v.Thayer, 40 Conn. 157.

In Scotch law. A gift or present made or left by a tenant to his lord as atoken of reverence. Skene.

In Saxon law. Offenders who joined in a body of more than thirty-five tocommit depredations.

In old English law. A sort of garment. Cowell.

In.English law. A customary tribute of goods and chattels, payable to thelord of the fee on the decease of the owner of the land.lleriots are divided into heriot scrviee and heriot custom.

In old English law. A species of military service, or knight’s fee.Cowell.

In old Scotch law. A fine or penalty for not obeying the proclamationmade for warfare. Skene.

A division of household goods. Blount

Laying down of arms. Blount. Desertion from the army. Spelman.

The station of an army; the place where a camp is pitched Spelman.

Capable of being taken by descent. A term chiefly used in Scotch law, where it enters into several phrases.

In the civil law. Every species of immovable which can be the subject ofproperty; such as lands, houses, orchards, woods, marshes, ponds, etc., in whatevermode they may have been acquired, either by

In Scotch law. A proprietor of land. 1 Kames, Eq. Pref.

In medical jurisprudence. A person of doubtful or double sex;one possessing, really or apparently, and in more or less developed form, some or all ofthe genital organs of both sexes.Hermaphroditus tarn musculo

The science or art of construction and interpretation. By thephrase “legal hermeneutics” is understood the systematic body of rules which arerecognized as applicable to the construction and interpretation of legal writings.

A great lord. Jacob.

See CODEX HEBMOQENIANUS.