To cleanse; to clear; to dear or exonerate from some charge or imputation of guilt, or from a contempt
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Absolute; complete; slmple; unmixed ; unqualified; free from conditions or restrictions; as in the phrases pure charlty, pure debt, pure obllgation, pure plea, pure vlllenage, as to which see the nouns
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The act of cleanslng or exonerating one’s self of a crime, accusation, or suspicion of guilt, by denylng the charge-on oath or by ordeal
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Lat. In the civil law. A ward or lnfant under the age of puberty; a person under the authority of a tutor, (q. v
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The word, “purchase" is used In law in contradistinction to “descent,” and means any other mode of acquiring real property than by the common course of in-heritance. But it is also much used in its more restricted vernacular sense, (that of buying for a sum of money,) especially in modern law literature; and this is universally its application to the case of chattels. See Stamm v. Bostwick, 122 N. Y. 48, 25 N. E. 233, 9 L. R. A. 597; Hall v. Hall, 81 N. Y. 134; Berger v. United States Steel Corp., 63 N. J. Eq. 809, 53 Atl. 68; Falley v. Gribling, 128 Ind. 110, 26 N. B. 794; Cham-bers v. St Louis, 29 Mo. 574
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In Scotch law. That perlod of minority from the birth to the age of fourteen in males, and twelve in females. BeU
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Relating to punishment; havlng the character of punishment or pen-alty; inflicting punishment or a penalty
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In the civll law. One wbo is in his or her minority. Particularly, one who is in ward or guardianship
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Liable to punishment, whether absolutely or in the exerclse of a judlcial discretion
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In crlmlnal law. Any pain, penalty, suffering, or confinement lnfllcted upon a person by the authority of the law and the judgment and sentence of a court, for some crime or offense committed hy him, or for hls omission of a duty enjoln-ed by law. See Cummlngs v. Missouri, 4 wall. 320, 18 L. Ed. 356; Featheretone v. People, 194 111. 325, 62 N. E. 684; Ex parte Howe, 26 or. 181, 37 Pac. 536; State v. Grant, 79 Mo. 129. 49 Am. Rep. 218
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In old Engllsh law. Pound-breach; the offense of breaking a pound. The Ulegal taking of cattle out of a pound by any means whatsoever. Cowell
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An lnterpreter of the Hindu law; a learned Brahmin
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Lat. A point of time; an indivisible period of time; the shortest space of time; an instant. Calvin
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In medical Ju-risprudence. A wound made by the lnser-tion into tbe body of any instrument having a sharp point The term is practically syn-onymous with “stab.”
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The dlvlslon of a writ-ten or printed document lnto sentences by means of perlods; and of sentences lnto smaller divisions by means of commas, semi-colons, colons, etc
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Lat. In the clvll law. To beat; to accuse or charge; to proceed agalnst at law. Calvin
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Lat. In the civil law. Childhood; the age from seven to fourteen. 4 Bl. Comm. 22
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A person employed by the owner of property which is sold at auction to attend the sale and run up the price by making spurious bids. See Peck v. List, 23 W
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Lat in the civil law. A child; one of the age from seven to fourteen, in-cluding, iu this sense, a girl. But it also meant a "boy,” as distinguished from a “girlor a servant
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