L. Fr. Never married. More fully, ne unques accouple en loiall matrimonie, never joined in lawful marriage. The name of a plea in the action of dower unde nihil habet, by which the ten-ant denied that the dowress was ever law-fully married to the decedent
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Lat. That it be not received. A caveat or warning given to a law ofiicer, by a party in a cause, not to receive the next proceedings of his opponent. 1 Sell. Pr. 8
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L. Lat. The statute 35 Edw. I. { 2, prohibiting rectors, i. e., parsons, from cutting down the trees in church-yards. In Rutland v. Green, 1 Keb. 557, it was extended to prohibit them from opening new mines and working the minerals therein. Brown
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Lat. That nothing shall be done (put or erected) in a public place or way. The title of an interdict in the Roman law. Dig. 43, 8
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Lat. In old English practice. A prohibitory writ, com
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Lat. In English practice. A writ which issues to restrain a person from leaving the kingdom. It was formerly used for political purposes, but is now only resorted to in equity when the de-fendant is about to leave the kingdom; it is only In cases where the intention of the par-ty to leave can be shown that the writ is granted
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Lat. In American practice. A writ similar to that of ne exeat regno, (q. v..) avallable to the plaintiff in a civil suit, under some circum-stances, when the defendant is about to leave the state. See Dean v. Smith, 23 wis. 483, 99 Am. Dec. 198; Adams v. whltcomb, 46 Vt. 712; Cable v. Alvord, 27 ohio St. 604
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L. Fr. (Does or did not disturb.) In English practice. The general issue or general plea in quare impedit. 8 Steph. Comm. 663
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Lat. In ecclesiastical law. The name of a prohibitory writ, di-rected to the bishop, at the request of the plaintiff or defendant, where a quare impedit is pending, when either party fears that the bishop will admit the other’s clerk pending the suit between them. Fitzh. Nat Brev. 37
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L. Fr. He did not deliver. A plea in detinue, denying the de-livery to the defendant of the thing sued for
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A sum paid to govern-ment as an acknowledgment for a grant of lands, or any publlc office. Enc. Lond
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In Hindu law. Composer, ar-ranger, adjuster. The first officer of a prov-ince, and minister of the department of criminal justice
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A fleet of ships; the aggregate of vessels of war belonging to an independ-ent nation. In a broader sense, and as equlv-alent to “naval forces,” the entire corps of officers and men enlisted in the naval serv-ice and who man the pnblic ships of war, In-cluding in this sense, in the United States, the officers and men of the Marine Corps. See wilkes v. Dinsman, 7 How. 124, 12 L. Ed. 618; U. S. v. Dunn, 120 U. 8. 249, 7 Sup. Ct. 507, 30 L. Ed. 667
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The act or the science or the buslness of traversing the sea or other waters In ships or vessels. Pollock v. Cleve-land Ship Building Co., 56 ohio St. 655, 47 N. E. 582; The Silvia, 171 U. S. 462, 19 Sup. Ct 7, 43 L. Ed. 241; LAurie v. Douglass, 15 Mees. & W. 746
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Fr. In French law. A ship. Emerig. Tralte des Assur. c, 6, i 1
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Capable of being navi-gated; that may be navigated or passed over in ships or vessels. But the term is gen-erally understood in a more restricted sense, viz., subject to the ebb and flow of the tide
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To conduct vessels through navigable waters; to use the waters as a means of communication. Ryan v. Hook, 34 Hun (N. Y.) 185
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In the civil law. The . master or commander of a ship; the captain ef a man-of-war
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In the civil law. The master or captain of a ship. Galvin
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In old English law. A duty on certain tenants to carry thelr lord’s goods in a ship
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Pertaining to ships or to the art of navigation or the business of car-riage by sea
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