Agreeable to reason; just; proper, ordinary or usual
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This is where an insurer procures the whole or a part of the sum which he has insured (i. e., contracted to pay in case of loss, death, etc.) to be insured again to him by another person. Sweet
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A person who, in cer-tain cases, is appointed to make a revalua tlon or second appraisement of imported goods at the custom-house
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A faculty of the mind by which it distinguishes truth from falsehood, good from evil, and which enables the pos-sessor to deduce inferences from facts or from propositions, webster. Also an inducement, motive, or ground for action, as in the phrase “reasons for an appeal.” See Nelson v. Clongland, 15 wis. 393; Miller v. Miller, 8 Johns. (N. Y.) 77
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A brief term for real proper-ty; also for anything which partakes of the nature of real property
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In foreign law. That qual-lty of laws whlch concerns property or things, (quae ad rem spectant.) Story, Confl. Laws, § 16
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To convert any kind of prop-erty into money; but especially to receive the returns from an investment. See Bitti-ner v. Gomprecht, 28 Misc. Rep. 218, 58 N
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In common law. Relating to land, as distinguished from personal property. This term is applied to lands, tenements, and hereditaments
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In the middle temple, those persons were so called who were appointed to deliver lectures or “readings” at certain periods during term. The clerks in holy or-ders who read prayers and assist in the performance of divine service in the chapels of the several inns of court are also so termed. Brown
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In English ecclesiastical law. The title of a person admitted to a rectory or other benefice will be divested unless within two months after actual posses-slon he publicly read in the church of the benefice, upon some Lord's day, and at the appointed times, the morning and evening service, according to the book of common prayer; and afterwards, publicly before the congregation, declare his assent to such book; and also publicly read the thirty-nine artlcles in the same church, in the time of common prayer, with declaration of his as-sent thereto; and moreover, within three months after his ndmlssion, read upon some Lord's day in the same church, in the presence of the congregation, in the time of divine service, a declaration by him subscrlb-ed before the ordinary, of conformity to the Liturgy, together with the certificate of the ordinary of its having been so subscribed. 2 Steph. Comm. (7th Ed.) 687; wharton
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In Spanish law. Cause, (causa.) Las Partidas, pt. 4, tit. 4, 1. 2
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The abbreviation of “re-cordari facias loquelam” (q. v
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In criminal law. An unlawful taking of a woman, or of an heir in ward. Rape
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In old law. The pleadlngs in a suit. Rationes exereere, or ad rationes stare, to plead
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In criminal practlce. A material word in indictments for rape, whart. Crim. Law, $ 401
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Lat. on account of the soll; wlth reference to the soll. Said to be the ground of ownershlp in bees. 2 Bl. Comm. 393
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L. Lat. By rea-son of tenure; as a consequence of tenure. 3 Bl. Comm. 230
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Lat. on acconnt of inability. A ground of qualified property in some animals ferae natura; as in the young ones, while they are unable to fly or run. 2 Bl. Comm. 3, 4
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A wrlt that lay for tlie wife against the executors of her husband, to have the third part of his goods after hls just debts and funeral expenses had been paid. Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 122.
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