EXTREME HAZARD
To constitute extreme hazard, the situation of a vessel must besuch that there is imminent danger of her being lost, notwithstanding all the means thatcan be applied to get her off. King
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To constitute extreme hazard, the situation of a vessel must besuch that there is imminent danger of her being lost, notwithstanding all the means thatcan be applied to get her off. King
When a person is sick beyond the hope of recovery, and near death, he is said to be in extremis.Extremis probatis, praesumuntnr media. Extremes being proved, intermediate things are presumed. Tray. Lat
Foreign; from outside sources; dehors. As to extrinsic evidence, see EVIDENCE.
In old records. Relics. Cowell.
In old English law. To exile or banish. Nvllus liber liomo, exulctur, nisi,etc., no freeman shall be exiled, unless, etc. Magna Charta, c. 29; 2 Inst 47.
To overcome; to apprehend or take. Leg. Edm. c. 2.
A watery place; water. Co. Litt. 6.
Aid; assistance; relief. A subsidy.
One who saw the act, fact, or transaction to which he testifies.Distinguished from an ear-witness, (auritus.)
A small island arising in a river. Fleta, L 3, c. 2, | b; Bract. 1. 2, c. 2.
Justices in eyre were judges commissioned in Anglo-Norman times in Englandto travel systematically through thekingdom, once in seven years, holding courts in specified places for the trial of certaindescriptions of causes.
L. Fr. To travel or journey ; to go about or itinerate. Britt. c. 2.
In Hindu law. A farmer or renter of land in the districts of Hlndoo- stan.
In old English criminal law, this letter was branded upon felons upon their beingadmitted to clergy ; as also upon those convicted of fights or frays, or falsity. Jacob;Cowell; 2 Reeve, Eng.
In mercantile contracts, this abbreviation means “free on board,” and imports that the seller or consignor of goods will deliver them on the car. vessel, or other conveyance by which they are
In English law. Lands given towards the maintenance, rebuilding, orrepairing of cathedral and other churches. Cowell; Blount.
In old English law. The making or coining of money.
In old European law. A contract or formal agreement; but particularly usedin the Lombardic and Vislgothic laws to denote a marriage contract or a will.
An exact copy, preserving all the marks of the original.
In England. where the construction of a will may be affected by the appearance of the original paper,the court will order the probate to pass in fac simile, as it may possibly