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Sea-weed, between high and low wnter-mnrk, which lias not been deposlt-ed on tbe shore, nnd which during flood-tide is moved by each […]

In old European law. To undertake, declare, or promise solemnly; to pledge; to pledge one’s self to mnke oath. Spelman Source: Black’s […]

To set right, satisfy, or make amends Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Payment. Blount Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In the civil and Scotch law. A guarantor, surety, or caution-er; a peculiar species of fidejussor; one who adds hls own promise […]

Lat Adoptive. Applied both to the parent adopting, and the chlld adopted. Inst. 2, 13, 4; Id. 3, 1, 10-14 Source: Black’s […]

An act of legislation which comes into operation within a limited area upon being adopted, in manner pre-scribed therein, by the inhabitants […]

The act of one who takes another’s child into his own family, treating hlm as hls own, and giving hlm alL the […]

To accept, appropriate, choose, or select; to make that one’s own (property or act) which was not so originally Source: Black’s Law […]

That age which fol-lows puberty aud precedes the age of majors ity.. It commences for males at 14, and for females at […]

In the civil law. The subscription of a name or signature to an in-strument. Cod. 4, 19, 5, 7 Source: Black’s Law […]

In old English law. To annul;, to make void; to reduce to noth* ing; to treat as nothiug; to hold as or […]

Annulled, cancelled, mnde void. 28 Hen. VIII Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

The daughter of a great-great-granddaughter. Calvin Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

The son of a great-great-grandson. Calvin Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

The reduction of property of lands or tenements to mort-main, in the feudal customs Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In ecclesiastical law, this is the lightest form of punishment, con-slstlng in a reprimand and warning adinin-lstered by the judge to the […]

A triple or threefold warning, given, in old times, to a prisoner standing mute, before he was subjected to the peine forte […]

A writ for associating certain persons, as knights and other gentlemen of the county, to jus-tlces of assize on the circuit Reg. […]

A writ of execution upon a right of presentation to a benefice being recovered in quare impedit, addressed to the bishop or […]

In English law. The act of giving possession of a copyhold es-tate. It is of three kinds: (1) Upon a voluntary grant […]

To allow, receive, or take; to suffer one to enter; to give possession; to license. Gregory v. United States, 17 Blatchf. 325, […]

In European lnw. An usher. Spelman Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

The order of a competent court or magistrate that a person accused of crime be discharged from actual custody upon the taking […]

Ia evidence. A volun-tary acknowledgment, confession, or conces-sion of the existence of a fact or the truth of au allegation made by […]