The body of princes formerly entitled to elect the emperor of Germany.Also a name sometimes given, in the United States, to the body of electorschosen by the people to elect the president

To put to death by passing through the body a current of electricityof high power. This term, descriptive of the method of inflicting the death penalty onconvicted criminals in some of the

A penny which King Ethelred ordered to be paid for every plow in England towards the support of the poor. Leg. Ethel, c. 1.

Possessions belonging to the church. Blount.

The place In a religious house where the common alms weredeposited, and thence by the almoner distributed to the poor.In old English law. The aumeric, aumbry, or ambry; words still used in

In old English law. An almoner, or chief ollicer, who received theeleemosynary rents aul gifts, and In due method distributed them to pious andcharitable uses. Cowell; Wharton.The name of an officer (lord

Relating to the distribution of alms, bounty, or charity; charitable.

See CORPORATIONS.

In the civil law. Accurately ; with discrimination. Veazie v. Williams, 3 Storv. 611, 636, Fed. Cas. No. 16,907

(Lat. lie has chosen.) This is the name, in English practice, of a writ ofexecution first given by the statute of Westm. 2 (13 Edw. I. c. IS) either upon ajudgment for

The forces of nature. The elements are the means through which God acts, and “damages by the elements” means the same thing as “damages by the act of God.” Polack v. Pioche,

As applied to a candidate for an elective office, this term means capableof being chosen ; the subject of selection or choice; and also implies competency tohold the office if chosen. Demaree

In old English law. The act of banishing or turning out of doors; rejection.

The punishment of cutting out the tongue.

In practice. Electors or choosers. Persons appointed by the court toexecute writs of venire, in cases where both the sheriff and coroner are disqualifiedfrom ac ting, and whose duty is to choose

In the civil law. A will or testament.

In practice. (Fr. Eloigner, to remove to a distance; to remove afar off.) Areturn to a writ of replevin, when the chattels have been removed out of the way of thesheriff.

The getting a tiling or person out of the way ; or removing it to adistance, so as to be out of reach. Garneau v. Mill Co., 8 Wash. 407, 36 Pac.

In practice. Eloigned; carried away to a distance. The old form of thereturn made by a sheriff to a writ of replevin, stating that the goods or beasts had beeneloigned; that is,

In England, where in a proceeding by foreign attachment the plaintiff has obtained judgment of appraisement, hut by reason of some act of the garnisheethe goods cannot be appraised, (as where he