A prohibltlve writ is-sued by a court of equity, at the suit of a party complainant, directed to a party de-fendant in the action, or to a party made a defendant for that purpose, forbidding thc latter to do some act, or to permit his serv-ants or agents to do some act, which he is threatening or attempting to commit, or re-straining him in the continuance thereof, such act being unjust and inequitable, in-jurious to the plaintiff, and not such as can he adequately redressed by an action at law. U. S. v. naggerty (C. C.) 116 Fed. 515; Dupre v. Anderson, 45 La. Ann. 1134, 13 South. 743; City of Alina v. Loehr, 42 Kan. 368, 22 . Pac. 424
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In Scotch law. Preliminaries of testimony. The preliminary examination of a wltness, before examining hlm in chief, answering to the ‘voir dire of the English iaw, though taking a somewhat wider range, wharton
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Commenced; inchoate. Qurtesy initiate is the interest which a husband has in the wife’s lands after a child is born who may inherit, but before the wife dies
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In Scotch practice. A tech-nical expression applied to the decision of an inferior judge who has decided contrary to law; he is said to have committed iniquity. Bell
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That which begins or stands at the beginning. The first letter of a man’s name. See Elberson V. Richards, 42 N. J. Law, 70
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In old English iaw. Unseemly; not in due order. Fleta, lib. 1, c. 31, 8 8
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In old records. A nook or cor-ner of a common or fallow field, inclosed and. cultivated. Kennett, Par. Antiq. 297, 298; Cowell
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Blood which has the purity (freedom from attalnder) and legitimacy necessary to give its possessor the character of a lawful heir; that which is capable of being the medium for the trans-mission of an inheritance
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An estate in things real, descending to the heir. 2 Bl. Comm. 201; In re Donahue’s Estate, 36 Cal. 332; Dodge’s Appeal, 106 Pa. 220, 51 Am. Rep. 619; Rountree v. Pursell, 11 Ind. App. 522, 39 N. BL 747; Adams v. Akerlund, 168 111. 632, 48 N. E. 454
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To take by inheritance; to take as heir on the death of the ancestor. Warren v. Prescott, 84 Me. 483, 24 Atl. 948, 17 L. R. A. 435, 30 Am. St Rep. 370; Mc-Arthur v. Scott, 113 U. S. 340, 6 Sup. Ct. 652, 28 Lu Ed. 1015. “To Inherit to” a per-son is a common expression lh the books. 2 Bl. Comm. 254, 255; 3 Coke, 41
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An authority possessed without Its being derlved from an-other. A right, ability, or faculty of doing a thing, without receiving that rlght, abllity, or faculty from another
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An engrosser. In-grossator magni rotuli, engrosser of the great roll; afterwards called “clerk of the pipe.” Spelman; Cowell
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The act of making a fair and perfect copy of any document from a rough draft of it, in order that it may be executed or put to its final purpose
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In English law. An ancient writ of entry, by which the plaintiff or complainant sought an entry Into his lands. Abolished in 1833
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In old English law. In-gress; entry. The rellef pald by an heir to the lord was sometimes so called. Cowell
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In Roman law, in-gratitude was accounted a sufficient cause for revoking a gift or recalling the liberty of a freedman. Such is also the law of France, wlth respect to the first case. But the English law has left the matter entlrely to the moral sense
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These words express the right of a lessee to enter, go upon, and return from the lands in question.
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(1) Artifice, trick, fraud; (2) an engine, machine, or device. Spelman
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Lat. Freedom; liberty; the state or condition of one who is free. Also liberty given to a servant by manumission
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In medical jurisprudence. The process of steeping in llqnor; an opera-tion by which the medicinal qualities of a substance may be extracted by a liquor with-out boiling. Also the product of this opera-tion. “Infusion” and “decoction,” though not identical, are ejusdem generis In law. 3 Camp. 74. See Decoction
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