In the civil law. Undertakers of work; contractors. Cod. 4, 59.

A term of the Irish Brehon law, denoting a pecuniary mulct or recompensewhich a murderer was judicially condemned to pay to the family or relatives of hisvictim. It corresponded to the Saxon

We erect. One of the words by which a corporation may be created inEngland by the king’s charter. 1 Bl. Comm. 473.

By metonymy, this term is used to describe the office or functions of ajudge, whose state robe, lined with ermine, is emblematical of purity and honor withoutstain. Webster.

In old English law. The loose scattered ears of corn that are left on theground after the binding.

The gradual eating away of the soil by the operation of currents or tides.Distinguished from submergcncc, which is the disappearance of the soil under the waterand the formation of a navigable body

Wandering; Itinerant; applied to justices on circuit, and bailiffs at large, etc.

In old law. A waif or stray; a wandering beast Cowell.

Involving error; deviating from the law. This term is never used bycourts or law-writers as designating a corrupt or evil act Thompson v. Doty, 72 Ind.338.

Lat Erroneously; through error or mistake.

A mistaken judgment or incorrect belief as to the existence or effect of mattersof fact, or a false or mistaken conception or application of the law.Such a mistaken or false conception or

In old English law. A meeting of the neighborhood to compromisedifferences among themselves; a court held on the boundary of two lauds.Erubescit lex Alios castigare parentes.8 Coke, 110. The law blushes when

In old law. A cutting off the branches or boughs of trees. Cowell; Spelman.

To scald. It Is said that to scald hogs was one of the ancient tenures In serjeanty. Wharton.

In old English law. A writ of exchange. A license in the shape of a writ,formerly granted to an English merchant to draw a bill of exchange on another inforeign parts. Reg.

An old English law term, signifying exchange.

The departure or deliverance out of custody of a person who was lawfullyimprisoned, before he is entitled to his liberty by the process of law.The voluntarily or negligently allowing any person lawfully

That which comes by chance or accident. Cowell.

In feudal law. Escheat Is an obstruction of the course of descent, andconsequent determination of the tenure, by some unforeseen contingency, in whichcase the land naturally results back, by a kind of

In English law. The name of an officer who was appointed in everycounty to look after the escheats which fell due to the king in that particular county,and to certify the same