Alike: uniform; on the same plane or level with respect to efficiency,worth, value, amount, or rights. People v. Hoffman, 116 111. 587, 5 N. E. 600, 56 Am.Rep. 793.

The condition of possessing the same rights, privileges, and immunities,and being liable to the same duties. Equality is equity. Fran. Max. 9, max. 3. Thus, where an heir buys In an incumbrance

The act or process of making equal or bringing about conformity toa common standard. The process of equalizing assessments or taxes, as performed by”boards of equalization” in various states, consists in comparing

An officer of state under the master of the horse.

Lat. In Roman and old English law. A knight.

An equal. It is mentioned in Simeon Dunelm, A. D. 8S2. Jacob.

The two periods of the year (vernal equinox about March 21st, andautumnal equinox about September 22d) when the time from the rising of the sun to itssetting is equal to the time

Just; conformable to the principles of natural justice and right.Just, fair, and right, in consideration of the facts and circumstances of the individualcase.Existing in equity; available or sustainable only in equity, or

In old English law. Traveling furniture, or riding equipments, includinghorses, horse harness, etc. Reg. Orig. 100&; St. Westm. 2, c. 39.

1. In its broadest and most general signification, this term denotes the spirit and the habit of fairness, justness, and right dealing which would regulate the intercourse of men with men.

In patent law. Any act or substance which is known in the arts as aproper substitute for some other act or substance employed as an element in the invention,whose substitution for that

Having a double or several meanings or senses. See AMBIGUITY.

A kind of rack for extorting confessions

A maple tree. Not to be confounded with arabilis, (arable land.)

The followers of Erastus. The sect obtained much influence in England,particularly among common lawyers in the time of Selden. They held that offensesagainst religion and morality should be punished by the civil

The obliteration of words or marks from a written instrument by rubbing, scraping, or scratching them out. Also the place in a document where a word or words have been so removed.

In the civil law. To be divided. Judicium familial crciscundw, a suitfor the partition of an inheritance. Inst. 4, 17, 4. An ancient phrase derived from theTwelve Tables. Calvin.

One of the formal words of incorporation in royal charters. “We do, incorporate,erect, ordain, name, constitute, and establish.”

Baising up; building; a completed building. In a statute on the “erection”of wooden buildings, this term does not include repairing, alteration, enlarging, orremoval. See Shaw v. Hitchcock, 119 Mass. 256; Martine v.

Lat. Therefore; hence; because.