A county palatine in England, the jurisdiction of which was vested in theBishop of Durham until the statute 6 & 7 Wm. IV. c. 19, vested it as a separatefranchise and royalty

In old English law. Blows without wounding or bloodshed; dry blows. Blount.

A term used in Hindostan for a passport, permit, or order from tlieEnglish East Indian Company. It generally meant a permit under their seal exemptinggoods from the payment of duties. Euc. Lond.

In its most usual signification this word is the synonym of imposts or customs; but it is sometimes used in a broader sense, as including all manner of taxes,charges, or governmental impositions.

Taxes levied upon the removal from one state to another ofproperty acquired by succession or testamentary disposition. Frederickson v. Louisiana,23 IIow. 440, 16 L. Ed. 577; In re Strobel’s Estate. 5 App.

This term signifies not merely a duty on the act ofimportation, but a duty on the thing imported. It is not confined to a duty levied whilethe article is entering the country,

In its use in Jurisprudence, this word is the correlative of right. Thus,wherever there exists a right in any person, there also rests a corresponding duty upon some other person or upon

(From duo, two, and viri, men.) A general appellation among the ancientRomans, given to any magistrates elected in pairs to fill any office, or perform anyfunction. Brande.Duumviri municipalcs were two annual magistrates

In Roman law. A leader or military commander. The commander of an army.Dig. 3, 2, 2, pr.In feudal and old European law. Duke; a title of honor, or order of nobility. 1

In genealogical tables, a common abbreviation for “died without Issue.”

To have an abode; to Inhabit; to live in a place. Gardener v. Wagner, 9 Fed.Cas. 1,154; Ex parte Blumer, 27 Tex. 736; Putnam v. Johnson, 10 Mass. 502; Eatontownv. Shrewsbury, 49

The house In which a man lives with his family; a residence ;the apartment or building, or group of buildings, occupied by a family as a place of residence.In conveyancing. Includes all

See DECLARATION

At .common law this phrase imports an indefinite failure ofissue, and not a dying without issue surviving at the time of the death of the first taker.But this rule has been changed

An officer who has the care and oversight of the dykes and drains in fenny counties.

Bad legislation; the enactment of bad laws.

In medical jurisprudence. Incapacity of a woman to sustain the act of sexual intercourse except with great difficulty and pain.

.A state of the stomach In which its functions are disturbed, without thepresence of other diseases, or when, if other diseases are present, they are of minorimportance. Dungl. Med. Diet

In Scotch law. A bankrupt.

In Scotch law. A habit which debtors who are set free on a ccssiobonorum are obliged to wear, unless in the summons and process of ccssio it be libeled,PUB tained, and proved