The practice of medicine is a pursuit very generally known and under-stood, and so also is that of surgery. The former includes the application and use of medicines and drugs for the pnrpose of curing, mitigating, or alleviating bodily diseases, while the furfctlons of the latter are limited to manual operations usually performed by surgical instruments or appllances.” Smith v. Lane, 24 Hun (N. Y.) 633
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Intervention; lnterposi-tlon; the act of a third person who inter-feres between two contending parties with a view to reconcile them or persuade them to adjust or settle their dispute. In inter-national law and diplomacy, the word de-notes the friendly interference of a state in the controversies of others, for the purpose, by its influence and by adjusting their diffi-cultles, of keeping the peace in the family of nations
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OR. one who interposes be-tween parties at variance for the purpose of reconciling them
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Those incident to primary powers given by a principal to hls agent For example, the general authority given to collect, receive, and pay debts due by or to the principal is a primary power. In order to accomplish this, it is frequently required to settle accounts, adjust disputed claims, resist those which are unjust, and answer and defend suits. These subordi-nate powers are sometimes called “mediate powers.” Story, Ag. § 58
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In old English law. Mid-night. Ad medium noctem, at midnight. Fleta, lib. 5, c. 5, 8 31
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Men of a middle and base condition. Blount
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In old English law. A bribe or reward; a compensation given in ex-chauge, where the things exchanged were not of equal value. Cowell
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In Spanish law. Half-yearly profits of land. McMullen v. Hodge, 5 Tex. 34, 79
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Having relation to, or produced or accomplished by, the use of mechanism or machinery. Used chiefly in patent law. See compound terms infra
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In old records. A house or place where me£heglin, or mead, was made
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A workman employed in shaping and uniting materials, such as wood, metal, etc., into some kind of structure, machine, or other object, requiring the use of tools. Story v. walker. 11 Lea (Tenn.) 517, 47 Am. Rep. 303; In re osborn (D. C.) 104 Fed. 781; Savannah & C. R. Co. v. Callahan, 49 Ga. 511; Berks County v. Bertolet, 13 Pa. 524
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A secies of lien created by statute in most of tbe states, which exists in favor of persons who have performed work or furnished material in and for the erection of a building. Their lien attaches to tbe land as well as the
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In old English law. A duty whlch some persons exacted, by letters patent, for every piece of cloth made, besides alnage. Now abolished
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(Corruption of maison de Dieu.) A house of God; a monastery; religious house or hospital. See 39 Eliz. c. 5
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That by which extent or dimension is ascertained, either length, breadth, thickness, capacity, or amount, webster. The rule by which anything is adjusted or proportioned
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1. The instrumeut or agency through which an end or purpose is accora-plished
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To meander means to follow a wlndlng or fiexuous course; and when it is said, in a description of land, “thence with the meander of the river,” it must mean a meandered line,—a line which follows the sinuosities of the river,—or, in other words, that the river is the boundary be-tween the points Indicated. Turner v. Park-er, 14 or. 341, 12 Pac. 495; Schurmeler v. St. Paul & P. R. Co., 10 Minn. 100 (Gil. 75), 88 Ara. Dec. 59
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A tract of low or level land produclng grass which is mown for hay. webster
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In Spanish law. The right to the enjoyment of certain aggregate property, left with the condition thereon imposed that they are to pass in thelr in-tegrity, perpetually, successively to the eldest son. Schm. Civil Law, 62
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Ground somewhat watery, not plowed, but covered with grass and flowers. Enc. Lond
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L. Fr. A work of the hand; a thing produced by manual labor. Yearb. M. 4 Edw. III. 38
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