In the civil law. A condition intermediate between infancy and pu-berty, continuing in boys from the seventh to the fourteenth year of their age, and in girls from seven to twelve
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In old English law. Supposed to be a corruption of the Saxon “wud-geld" (woodgeld,) a freedom from payment of money for taking wood in any forest Co. Litt. 233a
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In Spanish law. People; all the inhabitants of any country or place, with-out distinction. A town, township, or muJ niclpality. white, New Recop. b. 2, tit. 1, c. 6, S 4
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Lat. In tbe civil law. Public law; that law which regards the state of the commonwealth. Inst 1, 1, 4
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Lat. of public right This term, as applied to a thiug or right, means that it is opcn to or exercisable by all persons
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In the civil law. The name of an actlon Introduced by the prtetor Publicius, the object of which was to recover a thing which had been lost. Its effects were similar to those of onr action of trover. Mackeld. Rom. Law, $ 298. See lnst. 4, 6, 4; Dig. 6, 2, 1, 16
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Lat. In Roman law. A farmer of the customs; a publlcan. Calvln
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1. The act of publtsh-lng anythlng or making it publlc; offering lt
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Pertaining to a state, nation, or whole community; proceeding from, relating to, or ahecting the whole body of peo-ple or an entire community, open to all; notorious. Common to all or many; gen-eral; open to common use. Morgan v. Cree, 46 VL 786> 14 Am. Rep. 640; Crane v. wa-ters (C. C.) 10 Fed. 621; Austin v. Soule, 36 Vt. 650; Appeal of Eliot, 74 Conn. 586, 51 Atl. 558; o’Hara v. Miller, 1 Kulp (Pa.) 295
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In tbe civU law. A farmer of the public revenue; one -who held a lease of some property from the public treasury. Dig. 39, 4, 1, 1; Id. 39, 4, 12, 3; Id. 39, 4, 13
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In medical jurisprudence. Alkaloldal products of the decomposition or putrefaction of albumlnous substances, as, in anlmal and vegetable tissues. These are sometimes poisonous, but not Invariably. Ex-arnples of poisonous ptomaines are those oc
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The age of fourteen In males and twelve in females, when they are held fit for, and capable of contracting, marriage, otherwise called the “age of consent to marriage.” 1 Bl. Comm. 436; 2 Kent, Comm. 78. See State v. Pierson, 44 Ark. 265
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A method or sys-tem of alleviating or curing certaiu forms of disease, particularly diseases of the uervous system or such as are traceaijle to nervous disorders, by suggestion, persuasion, encouragement, the inspiration of hope or confidence, the discouragement of morbid memories, associations, or beliefs, and other sim-ilar means addressed to the mental state of the patient, without (or sometimes in eon-junction with) the administration of drugs or other physlcal remedies
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In medical Jurisprudence. A frequent manlfestation of hysteria in women, in which the abdomen is inflated, simulating pregnancy; the patient aiding in the deception
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In medical Jurisprudence. A method of investigating the origin and cause of any given disease or morbid condition by examination of the mental condition of the patient, the application of various psychological tests, aud an inquiry Into the past history of the patient, with a view to its bearing on his present psychic state
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Carefulness, precaution, attentiveness, and good judgment, as applied to action or conduct That degree of care required by the exigencies or circumstances under which it ie to be exercised. Cronk v. Railway Co., 3 S. D. 93, 52 N. W. 420. This term, in the language of the law, is commonly associated with “care” and “diligence" and contrasted with “negligence.” See those ti-ties
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A kind of service of tenure. Blount says it slgnifies an old-fashioned spur with one point only, whlch the tenant, hold-ing land by thls tenure, was to find for the king, wharton
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A person who iB substituted or deputed by another to represent him and act for hlm. particularly In some meeting or public body. Also the instrument containing the appointment of such person. The word is said to be contracted from “procuracy,” (q. v
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LaL In the civil law. A broker; one who negotiated or arranged the terms of a contract between two parties, as between buyer and seller; one who negotiat-ed a marriage; a match-maker. Calvin
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The principal magistrate of a royal burgh in Scotland; also a governing oflicer of a university or college
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AL. In English law. An officer of the royal navy who had the charge of prisoners taken at sea, and some-times also on land. In military law, the officer acting as the head of the military police of any post, camp, city or other place in military occupation, or district under the reign of martial law
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