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This word has two meanings in law: (1) In the law of the domestic relations, nnd as to descent and distribution, it […]

Tn feudal law. A small rent paid to the lord paramount Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Principal; leading; head; emi-nent in power or importance; the most im-portant or valuable of several Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Swlndllng; shrewd cunning. The use of tricks and artifice Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A homestead or hoinesfall which is accessory to a house Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In old records. Pieces of ground, or heads at the end of plowed lands. Cowell Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

An agreement or corn-position ; an end or order set down between a creditor or debtor; an Indirect gain in point of […]

In old records. A loan or advance of money upon credit. Cowell Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A sum of money paid by vil-lelns to their lords in acknowledgment of their bondage Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In old Scotch law. A chief dwelling or mansion house Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Fr. The road wherein every man goes; the king’s highway Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In old French law. The eldest born. A term used in Poitoh nnd other places. Guyot, Inst Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd […]

In old French law. The privllege or prerogative of the eldest A pro-vincial term derived from chemier, (q. v.) Guyot, Inst Source: […]

In Anglo-Norman law. Were or weregild; the price of the head or person, (capitis pretium Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

The old Scotch form of ex-chequer Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Swindling; defrauding. “Deceitful practices in defrauding or endeavoring to defraud another of his known right, by some willful device, contrary to the […]

A kind of tenure men-tioned in a patent of 35 Edw. III. Cowell; Blount Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A homicide com-mltted in the heat of an affray and while under the influence of passion; it is thus dis-tinguished from chance-medley, […]

An lnstru-ment of sale of personalty conveying the title of the property to the mortgagee with terms of defeasance; and, if the […]

An article of personal prop-erty; any species of property not amounting to a freehold or fee in land. People v. Hol-brook, 13 […]

Purity; continence. That virtue which prevents the unlawful inter-course of the sexes. Also the state of purity or abstinence from unlawful sexual […]

In old European law. A keeper of records or public iustru-ments; a chartulary; a registrar. Spelman Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed […]

(For return-ing the charters.) An ancient writ which lay against one who had charters of feoffment intrusted to his keeping and refused […]

In mercantile law. One who charters (i. e., hires or engages) a ves-sel for a voyage; a freighter. 2 Steph. Comm. 184; […]

A ship hired or freighted; a ship which is the subject-matter of a charter-party Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)