A party against whom a libel has been filed in an eccleslastlcal court or in admiralty
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1. Bound or obliged in law or equity; responsible; chargeable; answerable; compellable to make satisfaction, compensa-tion, or restitution
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An old French coin, of sllver or copper, formerly current to a limited extent in England, and there computed as equivalent to a farthing
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An offense against sovereign power; treason; rebellion
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The state of being bound or obliged in law or justice to do, pay, or make good something; legal responsibility, wood v. Currey, 57 Cal. 209; McElfresh v
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In criminal law. The assembling of a body of men for the purpose of effectlug by force a treasonable object
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Licentiousness; an offense against the public economy, when of an an open and notorious character; as by frequenting houses of 111 fame, which is an indictable offense, or by some grossly scandalous and public indecency, for which tlie punishment at common law is flne and imprlson-ment. wharton. See Brooks v. State, 2 Yerg. (Tenn.) 483; U. S. v. Males (D. C.) 51 Fed. 42; Comm. v. wardell, 128 Mass. 54, 35 Am. Rep. 357; State v. Bauguess, 106 Iowa, 107, 76 N. W. 808
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Degrees of kindred within which persons are prohibited to marry. They are set forth in the eight-eenth chapter of Leviticus
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A court formerly ex-isting in the District of Columbia. It was a body charged with the administration of the ministerial and financial duties of wash lug-ton county. It was charged with the duty of laying out and repairing roads, building bridges, providing poor-houses, laying aud collecting the taxes necessary to enable it to • discharge these and other duties, and to pay the other expenses of the county. It had capacity to make contracts in reference to any of these matters, and to raise money to meet such contracts. It had perpetual succession, and its functions were those which, in the several states, are performed by “county commissioners,” “overseers of the poor,” “county supcrvisors,” and similar bodies with other designations. Levy Court v. Coroner, 2 wall. 507, 17 L. Ed. 851
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In Roman law. A husband’s brother; a wife’s brother-in-law. Calvin
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Lat Light; slight; trifling. Levis culpa, slight fault or neglect. Levissima culpa, the slightest neglect. Levis nota, a slight mark or brand. See Brand v. Schenectady & T. R. Co., 8 Barb. (N. ¥.) 378
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An embankment or artificial mound of earth constructed along the mar-gin of a river, to confine tbe stream to its natural channel or prevent Inundation or overflow. State v. New orleans & N. E. R. Co., 42 La. Ann. 138, 7 South. 226; Royse v. Evansville & T. II. R. Co., 160 Ind. 592
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That which may be levied. That which is a proper or permissible sub-Ject for a levy; as, a “leviable interest” in land. See Bray v. Ragsdale, 53 Mo. 172
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Lat. An expression used in the Roman law, and applied to the trial of wreck and salvage. Commentators disagree about the origin of the expression; but all agree that its general meaning is that these causes shall be heard summarily. The most probable solution is that it refers to the place where causes were heard. A sail was spread before the door and officers employed to keep strangers from the tribu
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L. Fr. Ris-ing up and lying down. A term applied to trespassing cattle which have remained long enough upon laud to have lain down to rest and risen up to feed; generally the space of a night and a day, or, at least, one night
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Rising up and lying down. A term applied to cattle. 3 Bl. Comm. 9. The Latin equivalent of “levant et couch ant
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The act of awarding a contract; e. g., a construction contract, or contract for carrying the mails
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Fr. In French law. A letter. It is used, like our English “letter,” for a formal lnstrument giving authority
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In Spanish law. An advo-cate. white, New Recop. b. 1, tit 1, c. 1, | 3, note
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I. one of the arbitrary marks or characters constituting the alphabet, and used in written language as the representatives of so’unds or articulations of the human organs of speech. Several of the letters of the English alphabet have a special significance in jurisprudence, as ab-breviations and otherwise, or are employed as numerals
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In practice. To admit a party as a matter of favor; as to open a judgment and “let the defendant in” to a defense
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In Scotch iaw. A deadly weapon. See State v. Godfrey, 17 or. 300, 20 Pac. 625, 11 Am. St Rep. 830
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