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.

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.