Following next after the second ; also, with reference to any legal In- strument or transaction or judicial proceeding, any outsider or person not a party to the affair nor immediately concerned

An uuder-constable. Cowell.

The third part of the corn growing on the land, due to the lord for a heriot on the death of his tenant, within the the manor of Turfat, in Hereford. Blount.

The designation, In colloquial language, of that portion of a decedent’s personal estate (one-tliird) which goes to the widow where there is also a child or chil- dreu. See Yeomans v. Stevens,

In Scotch law. A servitude by which lands are astricted or “thirled” to a particular mill, to which the possessors must carry the grain of the growth of the astricted lands to

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When “this” and “that” refer to different things before expressed, “this” refers to the thing last mentioned, and “that” to the thing first mentioned. Russell v. Kennedy, 60 Pa. 251.

Fixing “this day six months,” or “three months,” for the next stage of a bill, is one of the modes in which the house of lords and the house of commons reject

It was a custom within the mauor of Halton, in Chester, that if, in driving beasts over a common, the driver permitted them to graze or take but a thistle, he should

The term means, according to its derivation, a street or passage through which one can fare, (travel;) that is, a street or highway affording an unobstructed exit at each end into another

In old English law. A measure of corn or grain, consisting of twenty- four sheaves or four shocks, six sheaves to every shock. Cowell.

A middle line; a line running through the middle of a stream or road. See FILUM; FILUM AQU.E; FILUM VI^E.

In criminal law. A menace; a declaration of one’s purpose or intention to work injury to the person, property, or rights of another. A threat has been defined to be any menace

Sending threatening letters is the name of the offense of sending letters containing threats of the kinds recognized by the statute as criminal. See People v. Griffin, 2 Barb. (N. Y.) 429.

A gold coin of the United States, of the value of three dollars; authorized by the seventh section of the act of February 21, 1853.

Vassals, but not of the lowest degree; those who held lands of the chief lord.

In Saxon and old English law. The third part of a county; a divisiou of a county consisting of three or more hundreds. Cowell. Corrupted to the modern “riding,” which is still

In medical Jurisprudence. The front or anterior part of the neck. Where one was indicted for murder by “cutting the throat” of the deceased, it was held that the word “throat” was

This word is sometimes equivalent to “over;” as in a statute in reference to laying out a road “through” certain grounds. Ilyde Park v. Oakwoods Cemetery Ass’n, 119 111. 147, 7 N.

To ignore, (a bill of indictment.)