In old Engllsh law. No-blemen who lived on the marshes of wales or Scotland, and who, according to Camden, had thelr private laws, as if they had been petty kings; which were abollshed by the statute 27 Hen. VIIL c. 26. Called also “lords marchers.” Cowell
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An old English term for boundaries or frontiers, particularly the boundaries and limits between England and wales, or between England and Scotland, or tbe borders of the dominions of the crown, or the boundaries of properties in Scotland. Mozley & whltley
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In Scotch law. A boundary line or border. Bell. The word is aiso used, in composition; as march-dike, march-stone
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The rent of a mark by the year anciently reserved in leases, etc
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“A marauder is defined in the law to be ‘one wbo, while employed in the army as a soldier, commits larceny or robbery in the neighborhood of tbe camp, or while wandering away from the army? But in the modern and metaphorical sense of the word, as now sometimes used in common speech, it seems to be applied to a class of persons who are not a part of any regular army, and are not answerable to any military discipline, but wbo are mere lawless banditti, engaged in plundering, robbery, murder, and all conceivable crimes.” Curry v. Collins, 37 Mo. 328
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The name of a piece of money formerly coined at Hamburg. Its value was thirty-five cents
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In old Scotch law. Mayhem; mutilation of the body of a person. Skene
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In old records. A mere or moor; a lake, pool, or pond; a bog or
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In old English law. Tbe prlce or value of a man’s life or head. Co-well
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This term denotes a multitude, not merely a number greater than that denoted by the word “few.” . Louisville de N
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A wrltlng; a paper written with the hand; a writing that has not been printed. Parton v. Prang, 18 Fed. Cas. 1275: Leon Loan & Abstract Co. v. Equalization Board, 86 Iowa, 127, 53 N. W. 94, 17 L. R. A. 199, 41 Am. St. Rep. 486
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The old wrlt of maintenance. Reg. orlg. 182
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In old Engllsh law. To oc-cupy; to use or cultivate; to have in man-ual occupation; to bestow manual labor upon. Cowell
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Lat in Roman law. The hire or wages of labor; compensation for labor or servlces performed. See Mack-eld. Rom. Law, S 413. t
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In old English law. Capable of being had or held in hand; capa-ble of manual occupation; capable of being cultivated; capable of being touched; tan-gible; corporeal. Hale, Anal. | 24
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or MONUNG. In old English law. The district wlthin the jurisdic-tlon of a reeve, apparently so called from hls power to exerclse therein one of hls chief functions, viz., to exact (amaniah) all fines
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In old English law. A foot of full and legal measure
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A corporation engaged In the production of some article, thing, or object, by skill or labor, out of raw material, or from matter which has already been subjected to artl-flclal forces, or to. which something has been added to change lts natural condition. Peo-ple v. Knlckerbocker Ice Co., 99 N. Y. 181, 1 N. E. 669. The term does not lnclude a mining corporation. Byers v. Franklin Coal Co., 106 Mass. 135.
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The act of liberating a slave from bondage and givlng him free-dom. in a wider sense, releasing or deliv-ering one person from the power or control of another. See Fenwick v. Chapman, 9 Pet. 472, 9 L. Ed. 193; State v. Prnll, 1 N. J. Law, 4
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A building, the main or principal design or use of which is to be a place for produclng articles as products of labor; not merely a place where some-thtng may be made hy hand or machinery, but what in common understanding is known as a “factory.” IIalpin v. lnsurance Co., 129 N. Y. 73, 23 N. E. 989. 8 L. R. A. 79; Schott v. Harvey, 105 Pa. 227, 51 Am. Rep. 201; Franklin F. Ins. Co. v. Brock, 57 Pa. 82
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Sworn obedience or submission upon oath. Cowell
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