By the use of force; forcibly; with violence. The term is used in in-dictments for certain offenses. State vt Blake, 39 Me. 324; State v. williams, 32 La. Ann. 337, 36 Am. Rep. 272; Craig v. State, 157 Ind. 574, 62 N. E. 5
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An offense against the laws of nations. 4 Steph. Comm. 217.
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The term “violence" is synonymous with “physical force,” and the two are used lnterchangeably, in relation to assaults, by elementary writers on criminal law. State v. wells, 31 Conn. 212
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Injury; Infringement; breach of rlght, duty, or law. Ravishment; seduction. The statute 25 Edw. III. St. 5, c. 2, enacts that any person who shall violate the king’s companion shall be guilty of high treason
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Thfs term includes all alcoholic beverages made from the Juice of the grape by the process of fermentation, and perhaps similar liquors made from ap-ples and from some specles of berries; hut not pure alcohol nor distilled liquors nor malt liquors such as beer and ale. See Ad-ler v. State, 55 Ala. 23; Reyfeit v. State, 73 Miss. 415. 18 South. 925; Lemly v. State, 70 Miss. 241, 12 South. 22, 20 L. R. A. 645; Com. v. Reyburg, 122 Pa. 299, 16 Atl. 351, 2 L. R. A. 415; Feldman v. Morrison, 1 111. App. 462; Hinton v. State, 132 Ala. 29, 31 South. 563
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The sanction of the laws, whereby it is sig-nified what evil or penalty shall be incurred by such as commit any public wrongs, and transgress or neglect their duty. 1 Steph. Comm. 37.
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In Roman law. A rod or wand; and, from the use of that instruhient in their course, various legal acts came to be distinguished by the term; e. g., one of the three ancient modes of manumission waa by the vindicta; also the rod or wand lnter-vened in the progress of the old action of vindicatio, whence the name of that action. Brown
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Lat. In the civil law. To clalm. or challenge; to demand one’s own; to assert a right in or to a thing; to assert or claim a property in a thing; to claim a thing as one’s own. Calvin
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Lat. In. the civii law. The claiming a thing as one’s own; the as-sertlng of a right or title in or to a thing
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LaL In the Roman lnw, nu obligntion is defined ns n rineu-lum juris, i. e., “n bond of lnw’,” whereby one party becomes or is bound to another to do something according to law
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In Spanish law. The bond, chain, or tie of marriage, white, New Recop. b. 1, tit. 6, c. 1, 5 2
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A payment of n certnin quantity of wine instead of rent for a vine-ynrd. 2 Mon. Ang. p. 980
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In Spanish lnw. An entnil. Schm. Civil Lnw, 308
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A servile kind of tenure belongiug to lauds or tenements, whereby the tenant was bound to do all such services as the lord commanded, or were fit for a vil-lein to do. Cowell. See Villein
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A Judgment which deprived one of his libera lex, whereby he was discredited and disabled as a juror or witness; forfeited his goods and chattels and lands for life; wasted the lands, razed the houses, rooted up the trees, and committed his body to prison. It has be-come obsolete. 4 Bl. Comm. 136; 4 Steph. Comm. 230; 4 Broom & H. Comm. 153. wharton
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In old Eng-lish law. Villein service. Fleta, lib. 3, c. 13, § 1
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A person attached to a manor, who was substantially in the condition of a slave, who performed the base and ser-vile work upon the manor for the lord, and was. In most respects, a subject of property and belonging to him. 1 washb. Real Prop. 26
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An opprobrious epithet, im-plying great moral delinquency, and equiv-alent to knave, rascal, or scoundrel. The word is libelous. 1 Bos. & P. 331
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A writ that lay for the bringing hack of tbe king’s bondmen, that lintf been carried away by others out of his manors whereto they belonged. Reg. orlg. 87
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Lat. In Saxon law. A royal residence. Spelman
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E. Any small assemblage of houses for dwellings or business, or both, in the country, whether they are situated upon regularly laid out streets and alleys or not, constitutes a village. Hebert v. Lavalle, 27 111. 448
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