This word is said to be derived from "huissier" and is the name of a subordinate officer in some English courts of law. Archb. Pr. 25

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The actual exercise or enjoyment of any right or property. It is particularly used of franchises

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L. Fr. In old practice. Tbe pursuing or bringing an action. Cowell

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A person for whose use a suit is brought; otherwise termed the “use plain-tiff

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By “useful," in the patent law, is meant not an invention in all cases superior to the modes now in use for the same purposes, but “useful," in contradis-tlnction to frivolous and mischievous, inven-tion. Lowell v. Lewis, 1 Mason, 182, 186, Fed. Cas. No. 8,568

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Usage is a reasonable and law-ful public custom concerning transactions of the same nature as those which are to be effected thereby, existing nt the place where the obligation is to be performed, and either known to the parties, or so well established, general, and uniform that they must be pre-sumed to have acted with reference thereto. Clv. Code Dak. 8 2119. And see Milroy v. Railway Co., 98 Iowa, 188, 67 N. W. 276; Barnard v. Kellogg, 10 wall. 388, 19 L. Ed. 987; wilcocks v. Philllps, 29 Fed. Cas. 1203; McCarthy v. McArthur. 69 Ark. 313, 63 S. W. 50; Lincoln & K. Bank v. Page, 9 Mass. 156, 6 Am. Dec. 52: Lane v. Bank, 8 Ind. App. 299, 29 N. E. 613; Morningstar v. Cunningham. 110 Ind. 328, 11 N. E. 593, 59 Am. Rep. 211

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In mercantile law. The com-mon perlod fixed by the usage or custom or habit of deallng between the country where a blll is drawn, and that where it is payable, for the payment of bills of exchange. It means, In some countries, a month, in others two or more months, and in others half a month. Story, Bllls, M 50, 144, 332

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City servitudes, or servitudes of houses, are called "urban.” They are the easements appertaining to the building and construction of houses; as, for instance, the right to light and air, or the right to build a house so as to throw the rain-water on a neighbor’s house. Mosley & whitley; Civ. Code La. 1900, § 711

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Lat in Roman law. A city, or a walled town. Sometimes it is put for civitas, and denotes the inhabitants, or both the city and its inhabitants; i. e., the municipality or commonwealth. By way of spe-cial pre-eminence, urbs meant the city of Rome. Ainsworth

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In Scotch law. Between the hours of sunrise and sunset. Poinding must be executed with upsun. 1 Forb. InsL pt. 3, p. 32

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See Homestead

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The court of king's bench, in England, waa 80 called during the Interval between 1649 and 1660. the period of the commonwealth, Rolle being then chief justice. Bee 3 Bl. Cornm. 202

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In sales by auctions, an amount for which property to be sold is put up, so that the first bidder at that price is declared the buyer, wharton

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All that portion of the law, observed and administered in the courts, which hns not been enacted or promulgated in the form of a statute or or-dinance, including the anenacted portions of the common lnw, general and particular customs having the force of law, and the rules, principles, and maxims established by Ju-dicial precedents or the successive like de-cisions of the courts. See Code Civ. Proc. Cal. 1903, $ 1899; B. & C. Comp. or. 1901, | 736

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The hand raised towards the heavens, in one of the forms of taking an oatb, instead of being laid upon the Gospels

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The rule of evidence which obtains in the civil law, that the testimony of onc witness is equivalent to the testimony of none, wharton

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Food not fit to be eaten; food which if eaten would be injurious

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A prodigal; a spendthrift 1 Bi. Comm. 306

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This term generally excludes the day to which it relates; but it will be construed otherwise, if required by the evident intention of the imrties. Kendall v. Kings* ley. 120 Mass. 95

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war denounced without a declaration; war made not upon general but special declaration; Imperfect war. People v. McLeod, J. Hill (N. Y.) 409, 37 Am. Dec. 328

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A person of unsound mind is an adult who from infirmity of mind is incapable of managing himself or his af-falrs. The term, therefore, Includes Insane persons, Idiots, and imbeciles. Street. See Insanity. And see Cheney v. Price. 90 Hun, 238, 37 N. Y. Supp. 117; In re Black’s Estate, 1 Myr. Prob. (Cal.) 24; In re Mason, 3 Edw. Ch. (N. Y.) 380; Hart v. Miller, 29 Ind. App. 222, 64 N. E. 239; In re Lindsley, 44 N. J. Eq. 504, 15 Atl. 1, 6 Am. St. Rep. 913; Dennett v. Dennett, 44 N. H. 531, 84 Am. Dec. 97; Edwards v. Davenport (C. C.) 20 Fed. 758; witte v. Gilbert, 10 Neb. 539, 7 N. W. 288; Stewart v. Lispenard, 2G wend. (N. Y.) 300

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See Land

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See SEAwohniT

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L. Fr. Ever; always. Ne unques, never

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