Lat. A letter. The letter of a law, as dlstlngulshed from its spirit. See ICTTEB
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Letters. A term applied in old English law to various Instruments in writing, public and private
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Lat Pending the suit Fleta, lib. 2, c. 54, { 23
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Included in a list; put on a list, particularly on a list of taxable persons or property
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This word is used In some of the states to designate the persons appointed to make lists of taxables. See Rev. SL VL 638
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The name of an Italian coin, of the vaiue of about eighteen cents
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A docket or calendar of causes ready for trlal or argument, or of motions ready for hearing
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A person appolnted to carry out the wlndlng np of a company
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This term, when used in stat-utes forbidding the sale of liquors, refers only to spirituous or Intoxicating Uquom. Brass v. State, 45 Fla. 1, 34 South. 307; State v. Brittain, 89 N. C. 576; People v. Crllley, 20 Barb. (N. Y.) 248. See Ihtoxica-tinq Liquor; Spibituous Liquor
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The partner who upon the dissolution or Insolvency of the firm, is appolnted to settle lts ac-counts, collect assets, adjust claims, and pay debts. Garretson v. Brown, 185 Pa. 447, 40 Atl. 300
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The act or process of settling or making clear, fixed, and determi-nate that which before was uncertain or unascertained
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To adjust or settle an ln-debtedness; to determine an amount to lie paid; to clear up an account and ascertain the balance; to fix the amount required to satisfy a judgment Midgett v. watson, 2D N. C. 145; Martin v. Kirk, 2 Humph. (Tennj 531
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Ascertained; determin-ed; fixed; settled; made clear or manifest Cleared away; paid; discharged
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Lat in the civU law. To be clear, evident, or satisfactory, when a judex was in doubt how to declde a case, he represented to the prtetor, under oath, sibi non Uquerc, (that it was not dear to hlm,) and was thereupon dlscharged. Calvln
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It is’clear or apparent; it appears. Satis liquet, it sufficiently appears. 1 Strange, 412
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That which comes in a llne; especlally a direct line, as from father to son. Collateral relationship is not called “lineal,” though the expresslon “collateral line,” is not unusual
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A unlt in a connected series; anything which serves to connect or bind to-gether the things whlch precede and follow it Thus, we speak of a “link in the chaln of title.”
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Race; progeny; famlly, ascending or descendlng. Lockett v. Lockett, 94 Ky. 289, 22 S. W. 224
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In descents. The order or series of persons who have descended one front the other or ell from a common ancestor, considered as placed in a line of succession in the .order of their birth, the line showing the connection of all the blood-relatives
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In old Engllsh law. A flax plat, where flax is grown. Dn Cange
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Restriction or circumspection ; settling an estate or propertya certain time allowed by a statute for litigation
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