One who wrongfully keeps the owner of lands and tenements out of the possession of them. 2 Bl. Comm. 350.

L. Lat. To withhold lands or tenements from the rightful owner. This is a word of art which cannot be supplied by any other word. Co. Litt. 3316.

L. Lat. In old English law. A distress, distraint, or seizure of goods for satisfaction of a lawful debt. Cowell.

The punishment of being buried alive.

To practice fraud; to cheat or trick; to deprive a person of property orany interest, estate, or right by fraud, deceit, or artifice. People v. Wiman, 148 N. Y. 29,42 N. E.

In Spanish law. The crime committed by a person who fraudulently avoids the payment of some public tax.

Privation by fraud.

Deceased; a deceased person. A common term in Scotch law.

Lat. Dead. “Defunctus sine prole,” dead without (leaving) issue.

L. Fr. To waste.

A deprivation of dignity ; dismission from office. An ecclesiasticalcensure, whereby a clergyman is divested of his holy orders. There are two sorts by thecanon law,

A term for waste in the French law.

Reviling; holding one up to public obloquy; lowering a person in the estimation of the public.

In the law of descent and family relations. A step or grade, i. e., thedistance, or number of removes, which separates two persons who are related byconsanguinity. Thus we speak of cousins

L. Fr. Out of; without; beyond ; foreign to; unconnected with. Dehors the record; foreign to the record. 3 Bl. Comm. 387.

Lat. By the grace of God. A phrase used in the formal title of a king orqueen, importing a claim of sovereignty by the favor or commission of God. In ancienttimes it

In Spanish law. Surrender; release; abandonment; e. g., the act of an Insolvent in surrendering his property for the benefit of his creditors, of an heir in renouncing the succession, the abandonment

A taking of a solemn oath

L. Fr. In old English practice. Of well being; of form. The same as de bene esse. Britt. c. 39.

In French marine law. Abandonment Emerig. Tr. des Ass. ch. 17.