Span. In Spanish law. Preemption. White, New Recop. b. 2, tit. 2, c. 3.

In Mexican law. Tlie right enjoyed by an usufructuary of property, of buying the property at the same price at which the owner offers It to any other person, or Is willing

Lat. In practice. The name of a return made by the sheriff to a writ, when it came into his hands too late to be executed before the return-day.

A deficiency in the weight or quantity of merchandise by reason of the weight of tlie box, cask, bag, or other receptacle which contains it and is weighed with it. Also an

A cartel of commerce, a book of rates, a table or catalogue, drawn usually in alphabetical order, containing the names of several kinds of merchandise, with the duties or customs to be

In old English law. A heap; a liay-mow, or hay-stack. Focnum in tassis, hay In stacks. Reg. Orig. 90.

In the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk, the lords of manors anciently claimed tlie privilege of having their tenants’ flocks or sheep brought at night upon their own demesne lands, there to

Lat A common bull; because he was free to all the tenants within such a manor, liberty, etc.

Describing the same thing twice in one sentence in equivalent terms; a fault in rhetoric. It differs from repetition or iteration, which Is repeating the same sentence in the same or equivalent

A place of entertainment; a house kept up for the accommodation of strangers. Originally, a house for the retailing of liquors to be drunk on the spot Web- ster. The word “tavern,”

One who keeps a tavern. One who keeps an Inn; an innkeeper.

In old English law. A seller of wine : one who kept a house or shop for the sale of wiue.

To impose a tax ; to enact or declare that a pecuniary contribution shall be made by the persons liable, for the support of government. Spoken of an individual, to be taxed

In a general sense, a tax is any contribution imposed by government upon individuals, for the use and service of the state, whether under the name of toll, tribute, tallage, gabel, impost,

lr.it by certain persons termed “commissioners of sewers,” is not a parliamentary tax; whereas the income tax, which is directly imposed, and the amount also fixed, by act of parliament, is a

Subject to taxation; liable to be assessed, along with others, for a share in a tax. Persons subject to taxation are sometimes called “taxables;” so property which may be assessed for taxation

In old European law. Soldiers of a garrison or lieet, assigned to a certain station. Spelman.

Lat. In Itoman law. Taxation or assessment of damages; the assessment, by the judge, of the amount of damages to be awarded to a plaintiff, aud particularly in the way of reducing

In old English practice. Taxation of costs.

streets, and constructing sewers in cities, and canals and ditches for the purpose of drainage in the country. They are generally of peculiar local benefit. These burdens have always, in every state,