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

In old English law. Au annual reut paid to cathedral churches; another name for the peutecostals or customary oblations offered by the dispersed inhabitants within a diocese, when they made their processions

In English law. A sum paid to the ministers of divers parishes as a modus in lieu of tithe-wood. Blount.

The act, with intent to defraud. of bringing into the United States, or with like intent, attempting to bring into the United States, dutiable articles, without passing the same, or the package

The offense of importing prohibited articles, or of defrauding the revenue by the introduction of articles into consumption, without paying the duties chargeable upon them. It may be committed indifferently either upon

A small duty which was paid by servile tenants in Wy- legh to the abbot of Colchester. Cowell.

This term is sometimes the equivalent of “heuce,” or “therefore,” and it is thus understood whenever what follows is an illustration of, or conclusion from, what has gone before. Clem v. State,

The formula at the end of a commou oath.

Span. Above; over; upon. Ruis v. Chambers, 15 Tex. 5SG, 592.

In Spanish law. Superior judges. Las I’artidas, pt 3, tit 4, 1. 1.

Lat. In the civil law. The children of cousius german in general.

In Saxon law. Jurisdiction ; a power or privilege to administer justice and execute the laws; also a shire, circuit, or territory. Cowell.

A seigniory or lordship, enfranchised by the king, with liberty of holdiug a court of his socmen or socaycrs; i. e., his tenants.

Socage tenure, in Engluud, is the holdiug of certain lauds in consideration of certain inferior services of husbandry to be performed by the teuant to the lord ol the tee. “Socage,” in

A tenant by socage. Socagium idem est qnod servitum so- cae; et soca, idem est quod caruca. Co. Litt 80. Socage is the same as service of the soc; and soc is