In medical Jurisprudence. The incapacity for copulation or propagatingthe species. Properly used of the male; but it has also been used synonymously with”sterility.” Grif’feth v. Griff- eth, 102 111. 30S, 44 N.

A qualified property, which may subsist inanimals fcrw natural on account of their inability, as where hawks, herons, or otherbirds build in a person’s trees, or conies, etc., make their nests or

To shut up stray animals or distrained goods in a pound. Thomas v.Harries, 1 Man. & G. 703; Goodsell v. Dunning, 34 Conn. 257; Howard v. Bartlett, 70 Vt.314. 40 Atl. 825.

The state or quality of being incapable of prescription; not ofsuch a character that a right to it can be gained by prescription.

Such rights as a person may use or not, at pleasure,since they cannot be lost to him by the claims of another founded on prescription.

A “case of the first impression” is one without a precedent; onepresenting a wholly new state of facts: one involving a question never beforedetermined.

A power possessed by the English crown of taking persons or propertyto aid in the defense of the country, with or without the consent of the personsconcerned. It is usually exercised to

Money paid on enlisting or impressing soldiers or sailors.

Lat. Let it be printed. A license or allowance, granted by the constitutedauthorities, giving permission to print and publish a book. This allowance wasformerly necessary, in England, before any book could lawfully

To press upon; to impress or press; to imprint or print.

Lat. In the first place; first of all.

The act of putting or confining a man in prison ; the restraint of a man’s personal liberty; coercion exercised upon a person to prevent the free exercise of his powers of

Adherents; followers. Those who side with or take the part of another,either in his defense or otherwise.

In Scotch law. An action brought for the purpose of having someinstrument declared false and forged. 1 Fori). Inst. pt. 4, p. 101. The verb “improve” (q.v.) was used In the same

Not suitable; unfit; not suited to the character, time, and place. Palmerv. Concord, 48 N. II. 211. 97 Am. Dec. 005. Wrongful. 53 Law J. P. D. 05.

In ecclesiastical law. Commonly signifies a lay rector asopposed to a spiritual rector; just as impropriate tithes are tithes in the hands of a layowner, as opposed to appropriate tithes, which are

In ecclesiastical law. The annexing an ecclesiastical benefice tothe use of a lay person, whether individual or corporate, In the same way as appropriationis the annexing of any such benefice to the

In Scotch law. To disprove ; to invalidate or impeach; to prove false orforged. 1 Forb. Inst. pt. 4, p. 102.To improve a lease means to grant a lease of unusual duration

A valuable addition made to property (usually real estate) or an amelioration in its condition, amounting to more than mere repairs or replacement of waste, costing labor or capital, and intended to

A term used in leases, of doubtful meaning. It would seem toapply principally to buildings, though generally it extends to the amelioration of everydescription of property, whether real or personal; but, when