In old English law. A privilege of lords of certain manors to judge any thief taken within their fee
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Lat. In the civil law. A child under the age of seven years; so called “quasi impos fandi,” (as not having the fac-uity of speech.) Cod. Theodos, 8, 18, 8
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A qualification of a man’s legal status produced by his conviction of an infamous crime and the consequent loss of honor and credit, which, at common law, rendered him incompetent as a witness, and by statute in some jurisdictions entails oth-er disabilities. McCafferty v. Guyer. 59 Pa. 116; Ex parte wilson, 114 U. S. 417, 5 Sup
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Minority; the state of a per-son who is under the age of legal majorlty, —at common law, twenty-one years. Ac-cording to the sense in which this term is used, it may denote the condition of the per-sou merely with reference to his years, or the contractual disabilities which non-age entails, or his status with regard to other powers or relations. Keating v. Railroad Co., 94 Mich. 219, 53 N. W. 1053; Anony-mous, 1 Salk. 44; Code Miss. 1892, § 1505
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Lat. In Roman law. A person whose right of reputation was dlmlnlsh-ed (involving the loss of some of the rights of citizenship) either on account of his in-famous avocation or because of conviction for crime. Mackeld. Rom. Law, 8 135
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In old English law. Exposed upon the sands, or sea-shore. A species of punishment mentioned in Heng-ham. Cowell
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Incapable of beiug avoided; fortuitous; transcending the power of hu-man care, foresight, or exertion to avoid or prevent, and therefore suspending legal rela-tions so far as to excuse from the perform-ance of contract obligations, or from 11a-bility for consequent loss
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Disqualified to be elect-ed to an office; also disqualified to hold an ofiice if elected or appointed to it. State v. Murray, 28 wis. 99, 9 Am. Rep. 489
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I^at. it is implied of right; it is implied by law
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A person addicted to the use of intoxicating liquors; an habitual drunkard
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Disqualification or legal incapacity to he elected to an office. Thus, an alien or naturalized citizen is ineligible to be elected president of the United States. Carroll v. Green, 148 Ind. 362, 47 N. E. 223; State v. Murray, 28 WI8. 90, 9 Am. Rep. 489
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Schools (es-tablished by voluntary contribution) in which Industrial training is provided, aud in which children are lodged, dothed, and fed, as well as taught
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Lat. A qualified property in animals ferae natura may be ac-quired per industriam, i. e., by a man’s reclaiming and making them tame by art, in-dustry, and education; or by so confining them wlthln his own immediate power that they cannot escape and’use their natural liberty. 2 Steph. Comm. 5
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Societies formed in England for carrying on any labor, trade, or handicraft, whether wholesale or retail, including the buying and selling of land and also (but suh-ject to certain restrictions) the business of banking
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In the Roman Catholic Church. A remission of the punishment due to sins, granted hy the pope or church, nnd supposed to save tlie sinner from purgatory. Its abuse led to the Reformation in Germany. wharton. Forbearance, (q. v
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Lat in the civU law. obliteration, by drawing the pen or stylus over the writing. Dig. 28, 4; Calvin
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In ecclesiastical law. In-duction is the ceremony by which an incum-bent who has been instituted to a benefice is vested with full possession of all the profits belonging to the church, so tiiat he becomes seised of the temporalities of the church, and is theu complete incumbent. It is performed by virtue of a mandate of in* duction directed by the bishop to the archdeacon, who either perforins it in person, or directs his precept to one or more other clergymen to do it Phillim. Ecc. Law, 477
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He who indorses; i. e., being the payee or holder, writes his name on the back of a bill of exchange, etc.
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