Having the character of larceny; as a “larcenous taking.” Contemplating or intending larceny; as a “larcenous purpose.”
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In criminal law. The wrongful and fraudulent taking and carrying away by one person of the mere personal goods of another from any place, with a fe* lonious intent to convert them to his (the taker’s) use, and make them hls property, without the consent of the owner. State v. South, 28 N. J. Law, 31, 75 Am. Dec. 230; State v. Chambers, 22 W. Va. 786, 46 Am. Rep. 550; State v. Parry, 48 La. Ann. 1483, 21 South. 30; Haywood v. State, 41 Ark. 479; Philamaiee v. State, 58 Neb. 320, 78 N. W. 625; People v. Bosworth, 64 Hun, 72, 19 N, Y. Supp. 114; State v. Hawkins, 8 Port. (Ala.) 463, 33 Am. Dec. 294
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Lat in the civil law. Pre-clous stones. Dig. 34, 2,19,17. Dlstlnguish-ed from “gems,” (gemmae.) Id
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Lat in the civU law. A stone-quarry/ Dig. 7, L 9, 2
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A sort of base coin, for-merly current in England. Cowell
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AS. In Spanish law. A commuta-tlon in money, paid by the nobles and high ofilcers, in lieu of the quota of soldiers they might be required to furnish in war. Tre-vino v. Fernandez, 13 Tex. 660
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Any means of conveying or communicating ideas; specifically, human speech, or the expression of ideas by written characters. The letter, or grammatical import, of a document or instrument, as distiu-guished from its spirit; as “the language of the statute.” See Behling v. Btate, 110 Ga. 754, 36 8. E. 85; Steveuson v. State, 90 Ga. 456, 16 S. E. 95; Cavan v. Brooklyn (City Ct. Brook.) 5 N. I. Supp. 759
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(Lat. Sick.) In practice. The name of a return made by tbe sheriff when a defendant, whom he has taken by virtue of process, is so dangerously sick that to remove him would endanger his life or. health. 3 Chit Pr. 249, 358
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An undergarment made of wool, formerly worn by the monks, which reached to thelr knees. Mon. Angl. 419
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This term, the plural of “land,” is said, at common law, to be a word of less extensive signification than either “tene-ments” or “hereditaments.” But in some of; the states it has been provided by statute that it shall Include both those terms
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In Swedish law. A body of common lnw, compiled about the thirteenth century, out of the particular customs of every province; being analogous to the cominon law ot England. 1 Bl. Comm. 66
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He of whom lands or ten-ementa are holdeu. He who, being tbe owner of an estate in land, has leased the same for a term of yeara, on a rent reserved, to au-other person, called the “teuaut.” Jackson v. Harsen, 7 Cow. (N. Y.) 326, 17 Am. Dec. 517; Becker v. Becker, 13 App. Div. 342, 43 N. Y. Supp. 17
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A monument or erection set up on the boundary line of two adjoining estates, to fix such boundary. The removing of a landmark is a wrong for which an action lies
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In Saxon law. Services and duties laid upon all that held land, including the three obligations culled “trino
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An expression some-times applied to a piece of land belonging to one persou and surrounded hy land belonging to other persons, so that it cannot be approached except over their land. L. R. 13 Ch. Div. 798; Sweet
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A piace on a river or other navigable water for lading and unlading goods, or for tlie reception and delivery of passengers; tbe terminos of a road on a river or other navigable water, for the use of travelers, and the loading and unloading of goods. State v. Randall, 1 Strob. (S. C.) Ill, 47 Am. Dec. 548
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Sax. In old English laW. A kind of customary tenant or inferior tenant of a manor. Spelman
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A name formerly given to those who executed justice on behalf of the German emperors, with regard to the internal policy of the country. It was ap* plied, by way of eminence, to those sovereign princes of the empire who possessed by inheritance certain estates called “land-gravates,” ot which they received investiture from the emperor. Enc. Lond
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Consisting in real estate or land; having an estate in land
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In old English law. An ancient customary flue, paid either in money or cattle, at every alienation of land lying within some manor, or within the liberty of some borough. CoweU; Blount
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