In English law. The younger sons and daughters of the sovereign, and other branch-es of the royal family who are not in the Im-mediate line of succession.
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Lat in the canon law. The first decree; a preliminary decree granted on the non-appearance of a defendant, by which the plaintiff was pnt in possession of his goods, or of the thing itself which was demanded. Gilb. Forum Rom. 32, 33
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In a general sense, a sover-eign; the ruler of a nation or state. More particularly, the son of a klng or emperor, or the issue of a royal family; as princes of the blood. The chlef of any body of men. web-ster
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1. The state of being the first-born among several children of the same parents; seniority by birth in the same family
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Lat. In old Engllsh law. A first-born or eldest son. Bract fob $3-
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Lat A writ dl-recting a grant of the first benefice in the sovereign’s gift. CowelL
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Lat To the’one first coming. An executor anciently paid debts as they were presented, whether the assets were sufficient to meet all debts or not. Stim. Law Gloss
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In old English law. The first of any degree of men. 1 Mon. Angl. 838
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In English law. First fruits; the first year’s whole profits of a spiritual preferment 1 Bl. Comm. 284
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In English law. The king’s first serjeant at law
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A chief ecclesiastic; part of the style and title of an archblshop. Thus, the archblshop of Canterbury is styled “Pri-mate of all England;” the archbishop of York is “Primate of England.” wharton
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Fr. In French law. The price of the risk assumed by an insurer; premium of insurance. Emerig. Tralte des Assur. c. 3, | 1, nn, 1, 2
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A case prime impreaatonte (ot the first Impression) is a case of a new kind, to which no established principle of law or precedent directly applies, and whlch must be declded entlrely by reason as distinguished from authority
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In mercantile law. A small allowance or compensation payable to the master and mariners of a ship or vessel; to the former for the use of hls cables and ropes to discharge the goods of the mer-chant; to the latter for lading and unlading in any port or haven. Abb. Shipp. 404; Peters v. Speights, 4 Md. Ch. 381; Blake v. Morgan, 3 Mart. O. 6. (La.) 38L
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A minister of a church. A per-son in the second order of the ministry, as distinguished from bishops and deacons
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Lat At first sight; on the first appearance; on the face of it; so far as can be judged from the first dis-closure; presumably
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In England, when the yearly list of persons nominated for the office of sheriff is submitted to the sovereign, he takes a pin, and to insure
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where goods In-tended to be exported are put direct from the station of the warehouse into a ship alongside, the exporter fills up a document to authorize the receiving the goods on board. This document is called a “pricking note,” from a practice of pricking holes in the pa* per corresponding with the number of pack-ages counted Into the ship. Hamel, Cust. 181
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An adverb of time, used in comparing an act or state named with another act. or state, subsequent^ in order of time, for the purpose of asserting the priority: of the first Lebrecht v. wilcoxon, 40 Iowa, 94. , :
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The consideration (usually in money) given for the purchase of. a thing
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The name given ih England tb the coast-guard, or armed police, forming a part, of the customs service, and employed in the prevention and detection of smuggling. ; i
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