A measure of length or distance, containing 8 furlongs, or 1,760 yards, or 5,280 feet This is the measure of an ordl-nary< or statute mile; but the nautical or geographical mile contains 6,080 feet
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A payment or charge, at a fixed rate per mile, allowed as a compeusa-tlon for traveling expenses to members of legislative bodies, witnesses, sheriffs, and bail-iffs. Richardson v. State, 66 ohio St 108, 63 N. E. 693; Howes v. Abbott, 78 Cal. 270, 20 Pac. 572
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The summer solstice, which is on the 24th day of June, and
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In Spanish law. Crops of grain, white, New Recop. b. 1, tit. 7, c. 5, >?•
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In ships of war, a kind of naval cadet, whose buslness is to second or transmit the orders of the superior officers and assist in the necessary business of the vessel, but understood to be in training for a commission. A passed midshipman is ‘one who has passed an examination and is a candidate for promotion to the rank of lieu-tenant. See U. S. v. Cook, 128 U. S. 254, 9 Sup. Ct. 108, 32 L. Ed. 464
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The middle thread of a stream is an imaginary line drawn lengthwise through the middle of its current
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An agent between two: parties, an Intermediary who performs the ofiice of a broker or factor between seller and buyer, producer and consumer, land-owner and tenant, etc. Southack v. Lane, 32 Mlsc. Rep. 141, 65 N. Y. Snpp. 629; Synnott v. Shaughnessy, 2 Idaho, 122, 7 Pac. 89
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A phfase used in log-ic to denote the term which occurs in both of the premises in the syllogism, being the means of bringing together tbe two terms in the conclusion
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one of the names of the general councll lmmemorlally held in England. The Witenagemote
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Great councll. one of the names of the general council of the kingdom in the times of the Saxons. 1 Bl. Comm. 147
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The feast of the Archangel Michael, celebrated in Ekigland on the 29th of September, and one of the usual quarter days
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E, or MICH. O. Eng. * To practice crimes requiring concealment or secrecy; to pilfer artlcles secretly. Micher, one who practices secret crime, webster
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Lat Fear; terror. In a tech-nical sense, a reasonable and well-grounded apprehension of some great evil, such as death or mayhem, and not arising out of mere timidity, but such as might fall upon a man of courage. Fear must he of this description In order to amount to duress avoiding a contract. See Bract, lib. 2, c. 5; 1 Bl. Comm. 131; Calvin
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A mother clty; one from whlch a colony was sent out. The capital of a province. Calvin
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ln Engllsh law. one of the titles of an archbishop. Derived from the circumstance tiiat archbishops were consecrated at first in the metropolis ef a province. 4 Inst 94
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The unit of measure in the “metric system” of weigihts and measures. It is a measure of length, belng the ten-mil-lionth part of the distance from the equator
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A system of meas-ures for length, surface, weight, and capaci-ty, founded on the metre as a unit It orlg-lnated in France, has been established by law there and in some other countries, and is recommended for general nse by other governments
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In patent law. “Engine” and “method” mean the same thing, and may be the subject of a patent Method, properly speaking, is only placing several things, or performing several operations, in the most convenient order, but it may signify a con-trivance or device. Fessen. Pat. 127; Horn-blower v. Boulton, 8 Term R. 106
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Sax. Speech; discourse. Mathlian, to speak; to harangue. Anc. Inst Eng
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An lnstrument of measurement; as a coal-meter, a gas-meter, a land-meter
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