A political party. The term arose tn England, in 1S18, when the popular leaders, Hunt Cartwright, and oth-ers, sought to obtain a radical reform in the
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An engine of tortnre anciently nsed in tbe inquisitorial method of examin-ing persons charged with crime, the office of whlch was to break the limbs or dislocate the joints
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A rent of the full value of the tenement, or near It. 2 Bl. Comm. 43
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In Scotch law. Ransom; correspondlng to Saxon “weregild,” a pecun-lary composition for an offense. Skene; Jacoh
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In the legal polity of the Sallans and Rlpuarlans and other Germanic peoples, this name was given to the judges or assessors who sat with the count in his mallum, (court,) and were generally associated with him in other matters. Spelman
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In French law. The right of repurchase which, in English and American law, the vendor may reserve-to hlmself. It is also called “rdmfird” Brown
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L. Fr. To redeem; to repurchase, (or bny back.) Kelham
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A tribe, people, or nation, be-longing or supposed to belong to the same stock or llneage. “Race, color, or.previous conditlon of servitude.” Const U. S., Am. XV
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An artificial canal dug in the earth; a channel cut In the ground, wilder v. De Cou, 26 Mlnn. 17, 1 N. W. 48. The channel for the current that drives a water-wheel, webster
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Lat. How long; how far; until. In old conveyances it is used as a word of limitation. 10 Coke, 41
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A money ver dict the amount of which is fixed hy the following process: Each Juror writes down the sum he wishes to award by the verdict; these amounts are all added together, and the total is divided by twelve, (the number of the jurors,) and the quotient stands as the verdict of the jury by their agreement. See Hamilton v. Owego waterworks. 22 App Dlv. 573, 48 N. Y. Supp. 10G; Moses v. Railroad Co., 3 Misc. Rep. 322, 23 N. Y. Supp. 23
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Of how many kinds; how many fold. A term of frequent occurrence in Sheppard’s Touchstone
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A proportional part or share, the proportional part of a demand or liabll-ity, falling upon each of those who are col lectlvely responsible for the whole
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1. The production to a conrt or judge of the exact language of a statute, precedent, or other authority, in support of an argument or proposition ad-vanced
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when a’committee, board of directors, meeting of shareholders, legis) a-tlve or other body of persons cannot nct un-less a certaln number nt least of them are present, that number is called a “quorum.” Sweet. In the absence of any law or rule fixing the quorum, it consists of a majority of those entitled to act. See Ex parte willcocks, 7 Cow. (N. Y.) 409, 17 Am. Dee. 525; State v. wilkesville Tp., 20 ohio St. 293; Heiskell v. Baltimore, 65 Md. 125, 4 Atl. 116, 57 Am. Rep. 308; Snider v. Rlne hart, 18 Colo. 18, 31 Pac. 716
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In old Scotch law. A twentieth part of the movable estate of a person dying, which was due to the bishop of the dio-cese within which the person resided. Bell
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whlch see. A direction to the reader to look to another part of tbe hook, or to another book, there named, for further information
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(Since the attachments.) one of the oldest books in the Scotch law. So called from the two first words of the volume. Jacob; whishaw
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That he recover The ordinary form of judgments for the plaintiff in actions at law. 1 Archb. Pr. K. B. 225; 1 Burrlll, Pr. 246
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That lf it happen. words by which a condition might formerly be created in a deed. Litt. | 330
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That he permit to abate. In old practice. A writ, in the, nature of a w’rlt of right, which lay to abate a nuisance. 3 Bl. Comm. 221. And see Conhocton Stone Road v. Buffalo, etc., R. Co., 51 N. Y. 579, 10 Am. Rep. 646; Powell v. Furniture.Co., 34 W. Va. 804, 12 S. E. 1085, 12 L. R. A. 53; Miller v. True-hart, 4 Leigh (Va.) 577.
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That he do abate. The name of a judgment upon an in-dictment for a nuisance, that the defendant abate such nuisance
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That parti-tion be made. The uame of the judgment in a suit for partition, directing that a partition be effected
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