In old English law. A forfeiture for contempt or neglect in not pursuing a malefactor. 3 Inst. 116
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A superintendent or super-visor; a public officer whose duties involve general superintendence of routine affairs
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To supersede; annul; re-Ject by subsequent action or decision. A ju-dicial decision is said to be overruled when a later decision, rendered by the same court or by a superior, court In the same system, ex-presses a judgment upon the same question of law dlrectly opposite to that w’hich was before given, thereby depriving the earlier opinion of all authority as a precedent. The term is not properly applied to conflicting decisions on the same poiut hy co-ordinate or independent tribunals
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To survive; to live longer than another. Finch, Law, b. 1, c. 3, no. 58; 1 Leon. 1
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what is left beyond a cer-tain amount; the residue; the remainder of a thiug. Lyou v. Tomkies, 1 Mees. A W. 603; Page v. Leapingwell, 18 Ves. 466
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In Saxon law. Con-tumacy or contempt of court Leg. JEtkeL c. 25
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To issue in excessive quan-tity; to issue in excess of fixed legal limits. Thus, “overissued stock” of a private corporation is capital stock issued in excess of the amount limited and prescribed by the charter or certificate of incorporation. See Hayden v. Charter oak Driving Park, 63 Conn. 142, 27 AU. 232
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A negotiable instrument or other evidence of debt is overdue when the day of its maturity is past and it remains unpaid. Camp v. Scott, 14 VL 387 ; La Due v. First Nat Bank, 31 Mlnn. 33, 16 N. W. 426. A vessel is said to be overdue when she has not reached her destination at the time when she might ordinarily have been expected to arrive
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To inquire into; to re-view; to disturb. “The merits of a judg-ment can never be overhauled by an original suit.” 2 II. Bl. 414
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To draw upon a person or a bank, by bills or checks, to an amount in excess of the funds remaining to the drawer’s credit with the drawee, or to an amount greater than what is due
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In conveyancing, the word “over” is used to deuote a contingent limitation In-tended to take effect on the failure of a prior estate. Thus, in wbat is commonly called the “name and arms clause” in a wili or settlement there is generally a proviso that if the devisee fails to comply with the con-ditlon the estate is to go to some one else. This is a limitation or gift over. wats. Comp. Eq. 1110; Sweet
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Beyond the sea; outside the limits of the state or country. See Gus-tin v. Brattle, Kirby (Coun.) 300. .See Bs-tond Sea
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In Scotch law. out-town multures; multures, duties, or tolls paid by persons voluutarlly grinding corn at any mill to which they are not thirled, or hound by tenure. 1 Forb. lust. pt. 2, p. 140.
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In Scotch law. Publish-er. 3 How. State Tr. 603
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1. Remaining undis-charged; unpaid; uncollected; as an out-standing debt
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In English law. Bailiffs-errant employed by sheriffs or their deputies to ride to the extremities of thelr counties or hundreds to summon men to the county or hundred court, wharton
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A person to whom the business of selling by auction was confined by statute. 2 H. BI. 557
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Such as set watches for the robbing any manor-house. Cowell
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Injurious violence, or, in general, any species of serious wrong offered to the person, feelings, or rights of another. See McKinley v. Railroad Co., 44 Iowa, 314, 24 Am. Rep. 748; Aldrich v. Howard, 8 R. I. 246; Mosnat v. Snyder, 105 Iowa, 500, 75 N. W. 356
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In early American land law, (particularly in Missouri,) a lot or parcel of land lying outside the corporate limits of a town or village but subject to Its munici-pal jurisdiction or control. See Kissell v. St. Louis Public Schools, 16 Mo. 592; St Louis v. Toney, 21 Mo. 243; Eberle v. St. Louis Public Schools, 11 Mo. 265; Vasquez v. Ewing, 42 Mo. 256
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