DYKE-REED, or DYKE-REEVE
An officer who has the care and oversight of the dykes and drains in fenny counties.
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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
From the opposite; on the contrary.
Conversely. On the other hand; on the contrary. Equivalent to e contra.
Out of mere grace or favor.
An abbreviation of exempli gratia. For the sake of an example.
Sax. The water or river; also the mouth of a river on the shore between highand low water-mark.Ea est accipienda interpretatio, quae vitio caret. That interpretation is to be received[or adopted] which
With that intent. Held not to make a condition, but a confidence and trust. Dyer, 13S6.Ea quae, commendandi causa, in ven- ditionibus dicuntur, si palam appareant,venditorem non obligant. Those things which are
A distributive adjective pronoun, which denotes or refers to every one of thepersons or things mentioned; every one of two or more persons or things, composingthe whole, separately considered. The effect of
A gold coin of the United States of the value of ten dollars.
In old Saxon law. An elder or chief.
The name of a Saxon magistrate; alderman; analogous to carl among the Danes, and senatoramong the Romans. See ALDERMAN.
An archbishop.
Sax. The metropolis; the chief city. Obsolete.
(Fr. ealc. Sax., ale, and hus, house.) An ale-house.
Sax. The privilege of assisiug and selling beer. Obsolete.
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