In old records. The pleadlng of a cause. Spelman
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In mining law. A superficial deposit of sand, gravel, or disintegrated rock, carrylng one or more of the preclous metals, along the course or under the bed of a water-course, ancient or current, or along the shore of the sea. Under the acts of con-gress, the term lncludes all forms of mineral deposits, except veins of quartz or other rock in place. Rev. St. U. S. § 2329 (U. S. Comp. St 1901, p. 1432). See Montana Coal A Coke Co. v. Livingston, 21 Mont. 59, 52 Pac. 780; Gregory v. Pershbaker, 73 Cal. 109, 14 Pac. 401; Freezer v. Sweeney, 8 Mont. 508, 21 Pac. 20
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This word is a very indefinite term. It is applied to any locality, limited by boundaries, however large or however small. It may be used to designate a coun-try, state, county, town, or a very small portlon of a town. The extent of the locality designated by it must generally be deter-mined by the connection in which it is nsed. Law v. Fairfield, 46 Vt 432
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A slight repast or refection of fish or flesh more than the common allowance; and the pittaucer was the officer who distributed this at certain appointed festivals. Cow’ell
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An edict; a declaration; a manifesto. Also an advertisement or public notification
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In old English law. Money, commonly a penny, paid for pitching or setting down every bag of corn or pack of goods in a fair or market. CowelL
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In medical jurisprudence. A term of recent introduction to medical ‘science, signifying curability by means of persuasion, and used as synonymous with “hysteria,” in efTect limiting the scope of the latter term to the description of psychic or nervous disorders which may be cured, uniquely by psychotherapy or persuasion. Babinski
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A small Spanish coin. It is not made current hy the laws of the United States.- United States v. Gardner* 10 Pet. 618, 9 L. Ed. 556
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In Scotch law. A privilege of Inflicting capital punishment for theft, given by King Malcolm, by which a woman could be drowned in a pit, (fossoj or a man hanged on a gallows, (furca.) BelL
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A technical word which must always be used in an indictment for piracy. 3 InsL 112
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The right or privilege of fishing. Thus, common of piscary is the right of fishing in waters belonging to an-ofher person
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In criminal law. A robbery or forcible depredation on the high seas, without lawful authority, done animo furandi, in the spirit and Inteutloh of universal hostility. United States v. Palmer, 3 wheat. 610, 4 L. Ed. 471. This is the definition of this offense by the law of nations. 1 Kent; Cotnm. 183. And see Talbot v. Janson, 3 Dall. 152, 1 L. Ed. 540; Dole v. Insurance Co., 51 Me. 467; U. S. v. Smith, 5 wheat 161, 5 L. Ed. 57; U. S. v. The Ambrose Light (D. C.) 25 Fed. 408; Davison v. Seal-skins, 7 Fed. Css. 192
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A person who lives by piracy; one guilty of the crime of piracy. A sea-rob-ber, who, to enrich himself, by subtlety or open force, setteth upon merchants and oth-ers trading by sea, despoiling them of thelr loading, and sometimes bereaving them of life and sinking their ships. Ridley, Civil & Ecc. Law, pt. 2, c. 1, § 3
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A roll In the exchequer; otherwise called the “great roll.” A liquid measure containing two hogsheads
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A liquid measure of half a quart, or the eighth part of a gallon
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An allowance set apart hy a husband for the personal expenses of his wife, for her dress and pocket money
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Tn old English law. Suffer ; the king’s butler, whose office it was to select out of the cargo of every vessel laden with wine, one cask at the prow and another at the stern, for the king’s use. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 22
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