One drawn, indorsed, or accepted in blank.

Practical and familiar knowledge of the principles and processes of an art, science, or trade, combined with tbe ability to apply them in practice in a proper and approved manner and with

In old records. A long, flat, and narrow piece or strip of ground. Paroch. Antiq. 465.

See LETTERS OF SLAINS.

In torts. Oral defamation; the speaking of false and malicious words concerning another, whereby injury results to his reputation. See Pollard v. Lyon, 91 U. S. 227, 23 L. Ed. 308; Fredrickson

A person who is wholly subject to the will of another; one who has no freedom of action, but whose person and services are wholly under the control of another. Webster. One

The traffic in slaves, or the buying and selling of slaves for profit

The condition of a slave; that civil relation in which one man has absolute power over the life, fortune, and liberty of another. See, e.g., What Are Crimes Against Humanity?

This word, in an indictment, adds nothing to the force and effect of the word “kill,” when used with reference to the taking of human life. It is particularly applicable to the

A hurdle to draw traitors to execution. 1 Ilale, P. C. 82.

A dormant partner ; one whose name does not appear in the firm, and who takes no active part in the business, but who has an interest in the concern, and shares

In English law. An expression frequently used in coal-mine leases and agreements for the same. It signifies a fixed or dead,

As to slight “Care,” “Evidence,” “Fault,” and “Negligence,” see those titles.

A stirrup. There is a tenure of land in Cambridgeshire by holding the sovereign’s stirrup. Wharton.

An arm of a river, flowing between islands and the main-land, and sep- arating the islands from one another. Sloughs have not the breadth of the main river, nor does the main

A rent paid to the castle of Wigmore, iu lieu of certain days’ work in harvest, heretofore reserved to the lord from his tenants. Cowell.

An artificial channel into which water is let by a sluice. Specifically, a trench constructed over the bed of a stream, so that logs or lumber can be floated down to a

In old records. A small, light vessel; a smack. Cowell.

All personal aud mixed tithes, aud also hops, llax, saffrons, po- tatoes, aud sometimes, by custom, wood. Otherwise called “privy tithes.” 2 Steph. Comm. 720.

Viudictive or exemplary damages. See Brewer v. Jacobs (C. C.) 22 led. 224; Springer v. Somers Fuel Co., 190 I’a. 150, 40 Atl. 370; Day v. Wood- worth, 13 How. 371, 14