A brief written acknowledgment of a debt. It is not made payable to order, like a promissory note. See Feeser v. Feeser, 03 Md. 716, 50 Atl. 400; Marrigan v. Page, 4

A duel is any combat with deadly weapons, fought between two or more persons,by previous agreement or upon a previous quarrel. Pen. Code Cal.

The trial by battel or judicial combat. See BATTEL.

Certain payments; rates or taxes. See Ward v. Joslin, 105 Fed. 227, 44 C. C.A. 456; Warwick v. Supreme Conclave, 107 Ga. 115, 32 S. E. 951; Whitman v. NationalBank, 176 U.

In English law, is a title of nobility, ranking immediately next to the Prince of Wales. It is only a title of dignity. Conferring it does not give any domain, territory, or

The name of a rack in the Tower, so called after a minister of Henry VI. who sought tointroduce it into England.

A government where servants and slaves have so much license and privilege that they domineer. Wharton.

Lat While; as long as; until; upon condition that; provided that.

While he shall conduct himself well; during good behavior.Expressive of a tenure of office not dependent upon the pleasure of the appointingpower, nor for a limited period, but terminable only upon the

While the work glows; in the heat of action. 1 Kent, Comm. 120.

In English law. A writ which lay for a man who had aliened lands under duress by imprisonment, to restore tohim his proper estates. 2 Inst. 482. Abolished by St. 3 &

(While he was within age.) In old English practice. A writ of entry whichformerly lay for an infant after he had attained his full age. to recover lands which hehad aliened in

While the offense was fresh. A term employed in the old law of appeal of rape. Bract, fol. 147.

While sole, or single. Dum sola fucrit, while she shallremain sole. Dum sola et casta vix- crit. while she lives single and chaste. Words oflimitation in old conveyances. Co. Litt. 235

One who cannot speak; a person who is mute.

In sales at auction, when the minimum amount which the ownerwill take for the article is written on a piece of paper, and placed by the owner under acandlestick, or other thing,

Provided; provided that. A word of limitation In the Latin forms ofconveyances, of frequent use in introducing a reservation; as in reserving a rent

A mountain or high open place. The names of places ending in dun or donwere either built on hills or near them in open places.

In old records. A bank of earth cast up; the side of a ditch. Cowell.

Such an under-ground prison or cell as was formerly placed in thestrongest part of a fortress; a dark or subterraneous prison.