Lat A liquor or beverage-made of wheat or barley. Dlg. 33, 6, 9, pr

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In the civil law. A measure or quantlty of land. Nov. 17, c. 8. As much land as a yoke of oxen could plow-in a day. Calvin

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In the civil law. A weigher; an officer who held or looked to the balance in weighing money between buyer and seller; an oflicer appointed to determine controversies about the weight of money. Spelman

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Proceeding by Inquiry. Enc. Lond

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A union of German states for uniformity of customs, established in 1819. It continued until the unification of the German empire, including Prussia, Saxony, Bavaria, wnrtemberg, Baden, Hesse-Cassel, Brunswick, and Mecklenburg-Strelitz, and all intermediate principalities. It has-now been superseded by the German empire;. and the federal council of the empire has taken the place of that of the Zoll-Vereln. wharton

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O. Sc. Year. "Zeir ahd day." Bell

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In Hindu law. Landkeep-er. An officer who under the Mohammedan government was charged with the financial superintendence of the lands of a district, the protection of the cultivators, and the realization of the government’s share of its produce, either in money or kind. Wharton

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This word is commonly taken in a bad sense, as denoting a separatist from the Church of England, or a fanatic. Brown

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An untechnical term denoting a witness, on the trial of a cause, who manlfests a partiality for the side calling him, and an eager readiness to tell anything which he thlnks may be of ad-vantage to that side

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Span. A water ditch or artlfi-dal canal, and particularly one used for pur-poses of irrigation. See Pico v. Colimas, 32 Cal. 578

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Span. A water commission-er or superintendent, or supervisor of an irrigation system. See Pico v. Colimas, 32 Cal. 578

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The tlmes of Christmas and Lammas

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L. Fr. wlnter graln. Kelham

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This phrase, when used in English conveyancing with ref-erence to settlements of land, signifies all such children as are not entitled to the rights of an eldest son. It therefore includes daugh-ters, even those who are older than the eld-est son. Mozley A whltley

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Thls word may include children and youth of both sexes. Nelson v. Cushing, 2 Cash. (Mass.) 519, 528

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An Important English statute passed at the city of York, in the twelfth year of Edward II., contaln-lng provisions on the subject of attorrieys, witnesses, the taking of inquests by nisi prius, etc. 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, 299-302

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The registries of titles to land provided by acts of parliament for the ridings of the county of York in England. These resemble the offices for the registration or recording of deeds commonly established in the several counties of the states

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A llttle farm, requiring hut a yoke of oxen to tlll it

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A custom of the province of York in England, by which the

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or YEOVEN. Given; dated. Cowell

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In conveyancing. The initial words of that clause in leases in Which the rent to be paid by the lessee is mentioned and reserved

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In oid records, winter; a cor-ruption of the Latin “Aiems.”

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In Engllsh law. A comrapn-er; a freeholder under the rauk of gentle

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The period in which the revolu-tion of the earth round the sun, and the ac-companying changes in the order of nature, are completed. Generally, when a statute si>eaks of a year, twelve calendar, and not lunar, months are intended. Cro. Jac. 166. The year is either astronomical, ecclesiastical, or regnal, beginning on the 1st of January, or 25th of March, or the day of the sover-eign’s accession, wharton

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The affirmative and negative votes on a bill or measure before a legislative assembly. “Calling the yeas and nays” is calling for tbe individual and oral vote of each member, usually upon a call of the roll

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