is that which is introduced or governed by stat ute law, as opposed to the common law or equity. Thus, a court is said to have stat- utory jurisdiction when jurisdiction is

In old Scotch law. To ordain, establish, or decree.

An act of the legislature; a particular law enacted and established by the will of the legislative department of government, expressed with the requisite for- malities. In foreign and civil law. Any

of statutes which have been revised, collected, arranged in order, and re-enacted as a whole; this is the legal title of the collections of compiled laws of several of the states and

Relating to a statute; created or defined by a statute; required by a statute; conforming to a statute.

Lat. In the civil law. Established; determined. A term applied to judicial action. Dig. 50, 10, 40. pr. In old English law. A statute; an act of parliament.

rence In the accounts of monastic establishments. Spelman; Cowell.

In practice. A stopping; the act of arresting a judicial proceeding, by the order of a court. See In re Schwarz (D. C.) 14 Fed. 7SS.

Theft is so called by some ancient writers. “Stealth is the wrongful taking of goods without pretense of title.” Finch, Law, b. 3, c. 17.

In Scotch law. Corns, cattle, straw, and implements of hus- bandry delivered by a landlord to his tenant, by which the tenant is enabled to stock and labor the farm; in consideration

Fr. In French law. A party who fraudulently mortgages property to which he has no title.

In Scotch law. The crime of aliening the same subject to different persons. 2 Karnes, Eq. 40.

Lat. In the civil law. A general name for any kind of fraud not falling under any specific class. But the term is chiefly applied to fraud practiced in the sale or

One who is skilled In the art of short-hand writing; one whose business is to write iu short-hand. See Ry- nerson v. Allison. 30 S. C. 534, 9 S. E. 050; In

The daughter of one’s wife by a former husband, or of one’s husband by a former wife.

The man who marries a widow, she having a child by her former marriage, is step-father to such child.

The woman who marries a widower, he having a child by his former wife, becomes step-mother to such child.

The son of one’s wife by a former husband, or of one’s husband by a former wife.

The breaking, obstructing, or straitening of a way. Termes de la Ley.

A French measure of solidity, used in measuring wood. It Is a cubic meter.