In ecclesiastical law. Pious oblations made at the feast of Pente-cost by parishioners to their priests, and sometimes by Inferior churches or parishes to the principal mother churches. They are also called “whitsun farthings.” whar-ton
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A stated allowance out o’ the public treasury granted by government to an individual, or to hls representatlves, for hls valuable services to the country, or in compensation for loss or damage sustain-ed by him In the public service. Price v. Society for Savings, 64 Conn. 362, 30 Atl. 139, 42 Am. St. Rep. 198; Manning v. Spry, 121 Iowa, 191, 96 N. W. 873; Frisbie v. U. S., 157 U. S. 160, 15 Sup. Ct. 586, 39 L. Ed. 657
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one who is supported by an allowance at the will of another; a de-pendent. It is usually applied (ln a public sense) to those who receive pensions or annuities from government, who are chief-ly such as have retired from places of honor and emolument Jacob
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Lat in the civil law. A pay-ment, properly, for the nse of a thing. A rent; a payment for the use and occupation of another’s house
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An English coin, being the twelfth part of a shilling. It was also used in America during the colonial period
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A Troy weight, equal to twenty-four grains, or one-twentieth part of an ounce
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A prison or place of punishment; tbe place of punlshment in which convicts sentenced to confinement and hard labor are confined by the authority of the law. Millar v. State, 2 Kan. 175
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Begun, hut not yet completed ; unsettled; undetermined; in process of settlement or adjustment. Thus, an action or suit is said to be “pending” from its inception until the rendition of final judg-ment. wentworth v. Farmington, 48 N. H. 210; Manney v. Pemberton, 75 N. C. 221; Ex parte Munford, 57 Mo. 603
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A term used in crlm-inal law, and denotlng (ln cases of alleged rape) the insertion of the male part into the female parts to however sllght an extent; and by which insertion the offense is com-plete wlthout proof of emission. Brown
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In the civil law. The fruits of the earth not yet separated from the ground; the fruits hanging hy the roots. Ersk. Inst 2, 2, 4
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NS. Lat. Pending; as Ms pen-dens, a pending suit
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Lat. Pending the suit; during the actual progress of a suit; during litigation
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In eccleslastlcal law. An ecclesiastical punishment inflicted by an ecclesiastical court for some spiritual offense. Ayl. Par. 420
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Suspense; the state of being pendent or undecided; the state of an action, etc., after it hns been begun, and be-fore the final disposltion of it
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Punishable; inflicting a punlshment; contalnlng a penalty, or relatlng to a penalty
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1. The sum of money which the obligor of a bond undertakes to pay by way of penalty, in tbe event of his omitting to perform or carry out the terms imposed npon him hy the conditions of the bond. Brown; Tayloe v. Sandlford, 7 wheat 13, 5 L. Ed. 384; watt v. Sheppard, 2 Ala. 445
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An officer in the Engllsh exchequer, who entered every seller’s bill on the parchment rolls, the roll of receipts, and the roll of disbursements
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The wool palled off the skin or pelt of dead sheep. 8 Hen. VI. c. 22
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Lat. In Roman law. A concubine. Dig. 50, 16, 144
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