1. In old English law, this title was given to an officer of the courts who carried a rod or stafT before the justices
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A kind of duty formerly paid at the English custom-house to those who attended the water-side, and belonged to the package-office; but it is now abolished. Also the charge made for sending parcels
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In English law. The generic name for port duties charged to ships. Harg. Law Tract, 64
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In old Scotch practice. A roll or catalogue containing the names of ln
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-Producing for exam-ination or taxation, as porrecting a bill of costs, by a proctor
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A place for the lading and un-lading of the cargoes of vessels, and the col-lection of duties or customs upon imports and exports. A place, either on the sea-coast or on a river, where ships stop for the purpose of loading and unloading, from whence they depart, and where they finish their voyages. The wharf Case, 3 Bland (Md.) 361; Packwood v. walden, 7 Mart. N. S. (La.) 88; Devato v. Barrels of Plum-bago (D. C.) 20 Fed. 515; Petrel Guano Co. v. Jarnette (C. C.) 45 Fed. 675; De Longue-mere v. Insurance Co., 10 Johns. (N. Y.) 125
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Lat. In Roman law. The people; the whole body of Roman dtizens, including as well the patricians as the ple-belans
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In Spanish law. A part or portlon; a lot or parcel; an allotment of
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In reference to the construction of a statute, thls term means that sense which people conversant with the subject-matter with jvhlch the statute is dealing would attribute to it 1 Exch. Div. 248
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Lat. In Roman law. A law enacted by tbe people; a law passed by an assembly of the Roman people, in the eomitia centuriata, on the motion of a sena-tor; differing from a plebiscitum, in that the latter was always proposed by one of the tribunes
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An action for a statutory penalty or forfeiture, given to any such person or persons as will sue for it; an action given to the people in geueral. 3 Bl. Comm. 160
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The bishop of Rome, and supreme head of the Roman Cathollc Church. 4 Steph. Comm. (7th Ed.) 168-185
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The religion of the Roman Catholic Church, comprehending doctrines and practices
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Agreements between competing railways for a dlvision of the traffic, or for a pro rata distribution of thelr earnings united Into a “pool” or common fund. 15 Fed. 667, note. See Pool
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As used In law, this term denotes those who are so destitute of property or of the means of support, either from their own >labor or the care of relatives, as to be a pub-lic charge, that is, dependent either on the charity of the general public or on maintenance at the expense of the public. The term is synonymous with “indigent persons” and “paupers.” See State v. osawkee Tp., 14 Kan. 421, 19 Am. Rep. 99; In re lIofren’s Estate, 70 wis. 522, 36 N. W. 407; Heuser v. Harris, 42 111. 430; Juneau County v. wood County, 109 wis. 330, 85 N. W. 387; Sayres v. Sprlngfleld, 8 N. J. Law, 169
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1. A combination of persons or corporations engaged in tbe same business, or for the purpose of engaging in a particular buslness or commercial or speculatlve ven-ture, where all contribute to a common fund, or place thelr holdings of a glven stock or otber security in the hands and control of a managing member or compilttee, wlth the object of eliminating competltlon as between tbe several members of the pool, or of es-tabllshing a monopoly or controlling prices or rates by the welght and power of thelr combined capital, or of raislng or depressing
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Lat. He puts himself upon the country. The de-fendant’s plea of not guilty in a criminal action is recorded, in Engllsh practlce, in these words, or in the abbreviated form *‘po. se.”
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Ih old English law. Duty paid for the reparation of bridges; also a due to the lord of the fee for persons or merchandises that pass over rivers, bridges, eta Cowell
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A writ by which justices were required to put their seals to exceptions exhibited by a defendant against a plalntlfTs evldence, verdlct, or other proceedings, be-fore them, according to the statute westm. 2, (13 Edw. I. St. 1, c. 31
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Lat To put, place, lay, or set. • often used in the Latin terms aqd phrases of the old law
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A writ commanding that a prisoner be bailed in cases bailable. Reg. orig. 133
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In English practice. An original writ formerly used for the purpose of remov-lng snlts frem the court-baroa or county
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