A bargain; compact; agreement This word is used in writings on Roman law and on general Jurisprudence as the English form of the Latin “pactum ” (which see
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A horse load, which consists of seventeen stone and two pounds, or two hundred and forty pounds welght. Fleta, 1. 2, c. 12; Cowell
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A package means a bundle put up for transportation or commercial handling; a thing in form to become, as such, an article of merchandise or delivery from hand to hand. A parcel is a small package; “parcel” being the diminutive of “package.” Each of the words denotes a thing in form suitable for transportation or handling, or sale from hand to hand. U
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To put together in sorts with a fraudulent design. To pack a jury is to use unlawful, Improper, or deceitful means to have the jury made up of persons favorably disposed to the party so contriving, or who have been or can be improperly influenced to give the verdict he seeks. The term imi>orts the improper and corrupt selection of a jury
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A measure of length containing two feet and a half, being the ordinary length of a step
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In old Euglish law. A toll for passage through another’s land. The same as “pedage.”
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Hear ye. A word used in courts by the public crier to command attention when a proclamation is about to be made. Commonly corrupted into “O yes.”
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V. An abbreviation for “pro hac vice,” for this turn, for this purpose or occasion
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A petition made in conrt that the judges, for better proof’s sake, will hear or look upon any record. CoweU
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In old English law. As much land as an ox could till. Co. Lltt 5a. A measure of land of uncertain quantity. In Scotland, it consisted of thirteen acres. Spel-man
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In old praotioo. Hearing; the hearing a deed read, which a party sued on a bond, etc., might pray or demand, and it was then read to him hy the other party; tbe entry on the record heing, “et ei legitur in hac verba,” (and it is read to him in these words.) Steph. PL 67, 68; 3 Bl. Comm. 299 ; 3 Salk. 119
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The complete dominion, title, or proprietary right in a thing or claim. See Property
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A restitution anciently made by a hundred br county for any wrong done hy one that was wlthln the same. Lamb. Arch. 125
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In English law. The offense of transporting wool or sheep out of the klng-dom; so called from its being usually carried on in the night. 4 Bl. Comm. 154
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The person in whom is vested the ownership, dominion, or title of property; proprietor. Garver v. Hawkeye Ins. Co., 69 Iowa, 202, 28 N. W. 555; Turner v. Cross, 83 Tex. 218, 18 S. W. 578, 15 L. R. A. 262; Coombs v. People, 198 111. 586, 64 N. E. 1056; Atwater v. Spalding, 86 Minn. 101, 90 N. W. 370, 91 Am. SL Rep. 331
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Something unpaid. A debt, for example, is owing while it is unpaid, and whether it be due or not. Coquard v. Bank of Kansas City, 12 Mo. App. 261; Mus-selman v. wise, 84 Ind. 248; Jones v. Thoinp-son, 1 El., Bl. & El. 64
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In English law. Persons who carrled wool, etc., to the sea-side by night, in order that it might be shipped off con-trary to law. Jacob
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TY. Equality. This word is used in law in several compound phrases, as fol-lows
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open; manifest; public; issu-ing in action, as distinguished from that which rests merely in intention or design
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In Scotch law. An umpire appointed by a submission to decide where two arbiters have differed in opinion, or he ia named by the arbiters themselves, under powers given them by the submission. Bell
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