DISTILLED LIQUOR OR DISTILLED SPIRITS
A term which includes all potable alcoholic liquors obtained by the process of distillation,(such as whisky, brandy, rum. and gin) but excludes fermented and malt liquors, suchas wine and beer. U. S.
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A term which includes all potable alcoholic liquors obtained by the process of distillation,(such as whisky, brandy, rum. and gin) but excludes fermented and malt liquors, suchas wine and beer. U. S.
The strict meaning of “distillery” is a place orbuilding where alcoholic liquors are distilled or manufactured ; not every building wherethe process of distillation is used. Atlantic Dock Co. v. Lihbv, 45
To point out an essential difference; to prove a case cited as applicable, inapplicable.
A term used In the statutes of Illinois (Rev. Laws. 111. 1833,p. 332) and New Hampshire (Dig. X. II. Laws, 1S30, p. 339) to express a state ofinsanity. Snyder v. Snyder, 142
Lat. In the civil law. A separation or division into parts; also analienation or sale. Sometimes applied to the act of a guardian in appropriating the property of his ward.
The sale at retail of the property of an insolvent estate, under themanagement of a curator appointed in the interest of the creditors, and for the purposeof realizing as much as possible
The sale of a thing pledged or hypothecated, by the creditoror pledgee, to obtain satisfaction of his claim on tlie debtor’s failure to pay or redeem. Idem. >) 348.
To sell; to draw apart; to dissolve a contract; to divorce. Calvin.
To take as a pledge property of another, and keep the same until heperforms his obligation or until the property is replevied by the sheriff. It was used tosecure an appearance in
He who seizes a distress.
Seizure; the act of distraining or making a distress.
The taking a personal chattel out of the possession of a wrong-doer intothe custody of the party injured, to procure a satisfaction for a wrong committed; as fornou-paymeut of rent, or injury
One that has no bounds with regard to its quantity, and may he repeatedfrom time to time, until the stubbornness of the party is conquered. Such aredistresses for fealty or suit of
A writ authorizing an officer to made a distraint; particularly, awrit authorizing the levy of a distress on the chattels of a tenant for non-payment ofrent. Bailey ville v. Lowell, 20 Me.
writ of. A writ formerly issued in the real action of quare impcdit, when noappearance had been entered after the attachment; it commanded the sheriff todistrain the defendant’s lands and chattels in
A supplementary distress for rent in arrear, allowed by law in some cases, where thegoods seized under the first distress are not of sufficient value to satisfy the claim.
An heir; a person entitled to share in the distribution of au estate.This term is admissible to denote one of the persons who are entitled, under the statuteof distributions, to the personal
In practice. The apportionment and division, under authority of acourt, of the remainder of the estate of an intestate, after payment of the debts andcharges, among those who are legally entitled to
A law prescribing the manner of the distribution of the estateof an intestate among his heirs or relatives. Such statutes exist in all the states.
Exercising or accomplishing distribution; apportioning, dividing, and assigning in separate items or shares.