To think of an act beforehand; to contrive and design; to plot or lay plans for the executlon of a purpose. See Deliberate
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A clergyman of a superior order, as an archblshop or a bishop, having authority over the lower clergy; a dignitary of the church, webster
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Fr. In French law. A prelimlnary deduction; particularly, the portion or share which one member of a firm is entitled to take out of the partnership as-sets before a division of the property is made between the partners
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A forejudgment; bias; preconceived opinion. A leaning towards one side of a cause for some reason other than a conviction of its justice, willis v. State, 12 Ga. 449; Hungerford v. Cushing, 2 W1S. 405; State v. Anderson, 14 Mont. 541, 37 Pae. 1; Hinkle v. State, 94 Ga. 595, 21 8. B. 595; Keen v. Brown, 46 Fla. 487, 35 South. 401
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Possessing or accorded a priority, advantage, or privilege. Generally denoting a prior or superior claim or right of payment as agninst another thing of
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In medical Jurispru-dence. The state of a female who has with-ln her ovary or womb a fecundated germ, whlch gradually becomes developed iu the latter receptacle. Dungl. Med. Dict
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A term used in English law to designate a new issue of shares of stock in a company, which, to facilitate the disposal of them, are accorded a’ priority or preference over the original shares
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To bring before; to prosecute; to try; to proceed with. Thus, pre-ferring an indictment signifies prosecuting or trying an indictment
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The act of an lnsolveut debtor who, in distributing his property or in assigning it for the benefit of his credlt-ors, pays or secures to one or more creditors the full amount of their claims or a larger amount than they would be entitled to receive on a pro rata distribution
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one who, by settlement upon the public land, or hy cultiva-tion of a nortion of it, has obtained the right to purchase a portion of the land thus settled upon or cultivated, to the exclusion of all other persons. Dillingham v. Fisher
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In French law. The name given to the public functionary who is churg-ed in chief with the administration of the laws, in each department of the country. Merl. Repert. See Crespln v. U- S., 168 U. S. 208, 18 Sup. CL 53, 42 L. Ed. 438. The term is also used, in practically the same sense, in Mexico. But in New Mexico, a prefect is a probate judge
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This term, in its natural and ordinary signification, is under-stood to be something greater or superior in power aud influence to others, with which it is connected or compared. So understood, a “predominant motive,” when several motives may have operated, is one of greater force and effect, in producing the given re-sult, than any other motive. Matthews v. Bliss, 22 Pick. (Mass.) 53
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In international law. The right of pre-emption is the right of a nation to detain the merchandise of strangers passing through her territories or seas, in order to afford to her subjects the preference of purchase. 1 Chit Com. Law, 103
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A real or predial servitude is a charge laid on an estate for the use and utility of another estate belonging to another owner. Civil Code La. art 647. See Prjediai. Sebvitudb
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In logic. That which is said concerning the subject in a logical prop-osition; as, “The law is the perfection of common sense.” “Perfection of common sense,” being affirmed concerning the law, (the subject,) is the predicate or thing predicated, wharton; Bourland v. Hildreth, 26 Cal. 232
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A contract or engage-ment made by a person, which is of such a nature as to preclude him from lawfully entering into another contract of the same nature. See 1 Bish. Mar. & Div. $§ 112, 272
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one who goes or bas gone before; the correlative of “successor.” Applied to a body politlc or corporate, in the same sense as “ancestor” is applied to a nat-ural person. Lorillard Co. v. Peper (C. C.) 65 Fed. 598
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In Scotch practice. To examine beforehand. Arkley, 232
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Lat. In pleading. The commencement of a repllcatlon to a plea in bar, by whlch the plalntlff “says that, by reason of anything in the said plea alleged, he ought not to be barred from havlng and malntalnlng his aforesaid action against him, the said defendant, because he says.” etc. Steph. Pl. 440
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In Scotch practice. Preliminary examination. The investigation of a criminal case, preliminary to commit-ting the accused for trial. 2 Alls. Crim. Pr. 134
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Another form of the name of the written instructions to the clerk of court; also spelled “praecipe,” (q. v
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Precipltins are formations in the blood of an animal induced by repeated injectlons Into its veins of the blood-serum of an animal of another species; and their importance in diagnosis lies in the fact that when the blood-serum .of an animal so treated is mixed with that of any animal of the second species (or a closely related species) and the mixture kept
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