In conveyancing. The boundary lines of lands, with their terminating points or angles. People v. Guthrie, 46 111. App. 128; Rollins v. Mooers, 25 Me. 196
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A measure or portion of corn, given by a lord to customary tenants as a reward and encouragement for labor. Cowell
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In old European law. A dwelllng; a seat; a station; quarters; the place where one lives or stays. Spelman
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A system of agricultural holdings, under which the land is divided, in small farms, among single families, the landlord generally supplying the stock which the agricultural system of the country is considered to require, and receiving, in lieu of rent and profit, a fixed proportion of the produce. This proportion, which is generally paid in kind, is usually one-half. 1 Mill, Pol. Econ. 296, 363; and 2 Smith, wealth Nat. 3, c. il. The system prevails in some parts of France and Italy
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Lat. In Roman law. Met* al; a mine. Labor in mines, as a punish-ment for crime. Dig. 40, 0, 24, 5; Calvin
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A mongrel or person of mix-ed blood; sometimes used as equivalent to “octoroon,” that Is, the child of a white per-son and a quadroon, sometimes as denoting a person one of whose parents was a Spaniard and the other an American Indian
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LaL A goal, bonnd, or turn-ing-point In old Engllsh law, the term was used to denote a bound or boundary line of
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In old Euglish law. A chief servant in husbandry; a bailiff
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This term is. now synon-ymous with “dwelling-house,” but had once a more extended signification. It is fre-quently used in deeds, in describing tbe premises. Marmet Co. v. Archibald. 37 W. Va. 778, 17 S. E. 300; Grimes v. wilson, 4 Blackf. (Ind.) 333; Derby v. Jones, 27 Me. 36Q; Davis v. Lowden, 56 N. J. Eq. 126, 38 AU. 648
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In Danish sea law. one of a ship’s papers; a certificate of admeas-urement granted at the home port of a vessel by the government or by some other com-petent authority. Jac. Sea Laws, 51
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Intermediate; intervening; the middle between two extremes, especially of rank or time
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or MESNALITY. A man-or held under a superior lord. The estate of a mesne
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In old English law. Mere; naked or abstract. Mcrum jus, mere right. Bract fol. 31
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Lat. Merchandise; movable ar tides that are bought and sold; articles of trade
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An old Eng-lish statute, relatlng to dower, legltimaey, wardships,’ procedure, lnclosure of common, and usury. It was passed in 1235, (20 Hen
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Possessing or characterized by “merit” In the legal sense of the word. See Merits
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In practice. Matter of sub-stance in law, as distinguished from matter of mere form; a substantial ground of de-fense in law. A defendant is said “to swear to merits” or “to make affidavit of merits” when he makes affidavit that he has a good and sufficient or substantial defense to the action on the merits. 3 Chit Gen. Pr. 543, 544. “Merits,” in this application of it, has the technical sense of merits in law, and is not confined to a strictly moral and conscien-tious defense. Id. 545; 1 Burrill, Pr. 214; Rahn v. Gunnison, 12 wis. 529; Bolton v. Don-avan, 9 N. D. 575, 84 N. W. 357; ordway v. Boston A M. R. Co., 69 N. H. 429, 45 AU. 243; Blakely v. Frazier, 11 S. C. 134; Rogers v. Rogers, 37 W. Va. 407, 16 S. E. 633; oatman v. Bond, 15 wis. 26
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