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

Lat In the civil law. A wife’s father; a father-in-law. Calvin.

A scheme of government aiming at absolute equality in the distribution of tlie physical means of life and enjoyment It is on the continent employed in a larger seuse; not necessarily implying

In Spanish law. Partnership. Schm. Civil Law, 153, 154.

Lat. In the civil law. Partnership ; a partnership; the contract of partnership. Inst. 3, 26. A contract by which the goods or labor of two or more are united in a

Fr. In French law. Partnership. See COMMENDAM.

An association or company of persons (generally not Incorporated) unit ed together for any mutual or common purpose. In a wider seuse, the community or public; the people in general. See New