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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
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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.
In English law. Such grass which is upon the land after the mowing, until the feast of the Annunciation after. 3 Leon. 213.
A mark put ui>on a thing to distinguish It from another. Originally andliterally, a mark upon the ear; a mode of marking sheep and other animals.Property is said to be ear-marked when
In the law of evidence. One who attests or can attest anything asheard ‘by himself.
A title of nobility, formerly the highest in England, now the third, rankingbetween a marquis and a viscount, and corresponding with the French “comte” and theGerman “graf.” The title originated with the
A great officer of state who had anciently several courts underhis jurisdiction, as the court of chivalry and the court of honor. Under him is theherald’s office, or college of arms. He
The dignity or jurisdiction of an earl. The dignity only remains now, as the jurisdictionhas been given over to the sheriff. 1 Bl. Comm. 339.
Money given in part payment. See EARNEST.
The payment of a part of the price of goods sold, or the delivery of partof such goods, for the purpose of binding the contract. Ilowe v. Hayward, 108 Mass. 54, 11
This term is used to denote a larger class of credits than would be includedin the term “wages.” Somers v. Keliher, 115 Mass. 105; Jenks v. Dyer, 102 Mass. 235.The gains of
The gross earnings of a business or company are the total receipts before deducting expenditures. Net earnings are the excess of the gross earnings over the expenditures defrayed in producing them, and
means the amount owned by the company over and above its capital and actual liabilities. People v. Cotn’rs of Taxes, 70 N. Y. 74.
Soil of all kinds, including gravel, clay, loam, and the like, in distinction fromthe firm rock. Dickinson v. Pough- keepsie, 75 N. Y. 70.