. Fr. In international law. The draft of a proposed treaty or convention
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Lat. offspring; progeny ; the issue of a lawful marriage
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Those impediments to a marriage which are only followed hy a punishment, but do not render the marriage null. Bowyer, Mod. Civil Law, 44.
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Lat. In old English law. A throwing up of earth by the sea
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Those degrees of relationship by consanguinity which are so close that marriage between persons related to each other In any of such degrees Ib forbidden by law. See State v. Guiton, 51 La. Ann. 155, 24 South. 784
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In practice. The name of a writ issued by a superior court, directed to the judge and parties of a suit in an in-ferior court, commanding them to cease from the prosecution of the same, upon a sugges-tlon that the cause originally, or some col-lateral matter arising therein, does not be-long to that Jurisdiction, but to the cognizance of some other court. 3 Bl. Comm. 112
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Lat. In the civil law. A grandson-in-law. Dig. 38, 10, 4, 6
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That state of a busl-ness which is neither the commencement nor the end. Some act done after the matter has commenced, and before it is completed. Plowd. 343
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In civil engineering, a drawing representing the elevation of the various points on the plan of a. road, or the like, above some fixed elevation. Pub. St Mass. 1882, p. 1294
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1. The advance in the price of goods sold beyond the cost of purchase. The gain made by the sale of produce or manufactures, after deducting the value of the labor, materials, rents, and all expenses, together with the interest of the capital employed. webster. See Providence Rubber Co. v. Goodyear, 9 wall. 805, 19 L. Ed. 828; Mundy v. Van Hoose, 104 Ga. 292, 80 S. E. 783; Hinckley v. Pittsburgh Bessemer Steel Co., 121 U. S. 264, 7 Sup. Ct 875, 30 L. Ed. 967; Prince v. Lamb, 128 Cal. 120, 60 Pad. 689; Maryland Ice Co. v. Arctic Ice Mach. Mfg. Co., 79 Md. 103, 29 Atl. 69
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A public declaration re-gpecting something. Cod. 10, 41, 6
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L. Lat in old Eng1i8h law. Profits; especially the “issues and profits” of an estate in land. See Co. Lltt. 142
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In old English law. An offer or proffer; an offer or endeavor to proceed in an action, by any man concerned to do so. Cowell
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IA. L. Lat. He pro-duces in court. In old practice, these words were inserted in a declaration, as an allega-tion that the plaintiff was ready to produce, or did actually produce, lu court, the deed or other written instrument on which his suit was founded, in order that the court might inspect the same and the defendant hear it read. The same formula was used where the defeudant pleaded a written instrument
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In a profane manner. A technical word in Indictments for the stat-utory offense of profanity. See Updegraph v. Com., 11 Serg. & R. (Pa.) 394
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Lat. In the civil law. That which descends to us from our as-cendants. Dig. 23, 3, 5
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In pleading. The formula, “and therefore he brings his suit,” etc., with which declarations always conclude. Steph. Pl. 428, 429
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That which has not been consecrated. By a profane place is under-stood one which is neither sacred non sancti-fied nor religious. Dig. 11, 7, 2, 4
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In old English law. Production of suit; the production by a plaintiff of his secta or witnesses to prove the allegations of his count See 3 Bl. Comm. 295
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In political economy. The creation of objects which constitute wealth. The requisites of production are
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A person whose occupation it is to buy or sell agricultural or farm products. 14 U. S. St at Large, 117; U. S. v. Simons, 1 Abb. (U. S.) 470, Fed. Cas. No. 16,291
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The party calling a witness under the old system of the English ec-deslastical courts
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Treasonably. This is a technical word formerly used in indict-ments for treason, when they were written in Latin. Tomlins
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To bring forward; to show or exhibit; to bring into view or notice; as, to produce books or writings at a trial in obedience to a subpoena duces tecum
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