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A learned man ; one qualified to give instruction of the higher order in ascience or art; particularly, one who has received the highest academical degree in hisart or faculty, as, a
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A learned man ; one qualified to give instruction of the higher order in ascience or art; particularly, one who has received the highest academical degree in hisart or faculty, as, a
The title of a work written by St. Germain in the reign ofHenry VIII. in which many principles of the common law are discussed iu a popularmanner. It is in the form
A rule, principle, theory, or tenet of the law; as, the doctrine of merger, the doctrine of relation, etc. Doctrinal interpretation. See INTERPRETATION.
An instrument on which is recorded, by means of letters, figures, or marks, matter which may be evidentially used. In this sense, the term “document” applies to writings; to words printed, lithographed,
A state paper, or other instrument of public importance or interest, issued or published by authority ofcongress or a state legislature. Also any document or record, evidencing or connectedwith the public business
Such evidence as is furnished by written instruments,inscriptions, documents of all kinds, and also any inanimate objects admissible for the purpose, as distinguished from “oral” evidence, or that delivered by human beings
The name of the fictitious plaintiff in the action of ejectment. 3 Steph. Comm. 018.
In Saxon law. The actual perpetrator of a homicide.
In Scotch law. An agent or attorney. 1 Kames, Eq. 325.
In old forest law. The manifest deprehension of an offender againstvenison in a forest, when he was found drawing after a deer by the scent of a houndled in his hand; or
The Latin of illiterate persons; Latin words put together on the English grammatical system.
In maritime law. A light ship or vessel; dogger-fish, fish brought in ships. Cowell.
Fishermen that belong to dogger-ships.
In the civil law. A word occasionally used as descriptive of an ordinance of the senate. See Nov. 2, 1, 1; Dig. 27, 1, 6.
The formal word by which services were reserved and expressed in old conveyances; as “rendering” (reddendo) was expressive of rent. Perk. c. 10,
A base coin of small value, prohibited by St. 3 Hen. V. c. 1. Westill retain the phrase, In the common saying, when we would undervalue a man, thathe is not worth
A part or portion of a meadow is so called; and the word has the generalsignification of share, portion, or the like; as “to dole out” anything among so manypoor persons, meaning
Slips of pasture left between the furrows of plowed land.
Sax. A wound. Spelman.
A recompense for a scar or wound. Cowell.