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.)

Within the meaning of a criminal statute, “thrusting” is not necessarily an attack with a pointed weapon; It means pushing or driving with force, whether the point of the weapon be sharp

A Saxon coin worth four- pence. Du Fresne.

A woodward, or person that looks after a wood.

One of the “barbarian codes,” as they are termed; supposed by Montesquieu to have been given by Theod- oric, king of Austrasia, to the Thuringians, who were his subjects. Esprit des Lois,

In old English law. The custom of giving entertainments to a sheriff, etc., for three nights.

A colloquial expression for credit or trust; credit given for goods purchased.

In contracts. A slip of paper containing a certificate that the person to whom it is issued, or the holder, is entitled to 6ome right or privilege therein mentioned or described; such,

lottery tickets, etc. See Allaire v. Howell Works Co., 14 N. J. Law, 24. In election law. A ticket is a paper upon which is written or printed the names of the

In order that a river may be “tidal” at a given spot, it may not be necessary that the water should be salt, but the spot must be one where the tide,

The ebb and flow of the sea. See Baird v. Campbell, 67 App. Div. 104, 73 N. Y. Supp. 617.

in English law, are certain officers of the custom-house, appointed to watch or attend upon ships till the customs are paid; and they are so called because they go aboard the ships

To bind. “The parson Is not tied to find the parish clerk.” 1 Leon. 94.