In old English law. A franchise, liberty, or hundred.

In Scotch practice. To stay proceedings. Bell.

In Scotch practice. A stay or suspension of proceedings; an order for a stay of proceedings. Bell.

A woman who has the same father and mother with another, or has one of them only. The word is the correlative of “brother.”

To hold a session, as of a court, grand jury, legislative body, etc. To be formally organized and proceeding with the transaction of business. See Allen v. State, 102 Ga. 010, 29

In Saxon law. The high constable of a hundred.

Sp. In Spanish and Mexican land law, a tract of land in the form of a square, each side of which measures 5,000 varas; the distance from the center of each sitio

In practice. The holding of a court, with full form, and before all the judges; as a sitting in banc. 3 Steph. Comm. 423. The holding of a court of nisi prius

Lat. Site; position; location; the place where a thing is, considered, for example, with reference to jurisdiction over it or the right or power to tax it See Boyd v. Selma, 90

THE. The acts passed in 1819, for the pacification of England, are so called. They, in effect prohibited the training of persons to arms; authorized general searches and seizure of arms; prohibited

A celebrated act entitled “An act for abolishing diversity of opinion,” (31 Hen. VIII. c. 14,) enforcing conformity to six of the strongest points in the Roman Catholic religion, under the severest

In English practice. Officers of tlie court of chancery, who received and filed all bills, answers, replications, and other papers, signed office copies of pleadings, examined and signed dockets of decrees, etc.,

In English law. A liquor license, containing a condition that the premises in respect of which the license is granted shall be closed during the whole of Sunday, granted under section 49

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