RE. To give, or grant, and assure anything by a written instrument
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ON. Commencement; opening; initiation. The beginning .of. the operation of a contract or will, or of a note, mortgage, lien, etc.; the beginning of a cause or suit In court, oriental Hotel Co. v. Griffiths, 88 Tex. 574, 33 S. W. 652, 30 L. R. A. 765, 53 Am. St. Rep. 790; Sullivan ▼. Coal Co., 94 Tex. 541, 63 S. W. 307; Marvin v. McCul-lum, 20 Johns. (N. Y.) 288; State v- Bollero, 112 La. 850, 36 South. 754
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The crime of sexual intercourse or cohabitation between a man and woman who are related to each other within the degrees wherein marriage is prohlblted by law. People v. Stratton, 141 Cal. 604, 75 Pac. 166; State v. Herges, 55 Minn. 464, 57 N. W. 205; Dinkey v. Com., 17 Pa. 129, 5o Am. Dec. 542; Taylor v. State, 110 Ga. 150, 35 S. E. 161
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To make a building serve as a castle. Jacob
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A house-burner; one guilty of arson; one who maliciously and willfully sets another person’s building on fire
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Imprisonment; confinement in a jail or penltentlary. This term is seldom used in law, though found occasionally in statutes, (Rev. St. okl. 1903, f 2068.) when so used, it appears always to mean confinement by competent public au-thority or under due legal process, wheresa “imprisonment” may be effected by a pri-. vate pcrson without warrant of law, and lf unjustifiable is called “false imprisonment” No occurrence of such a phrase as “false incarceration” bas been noted. See Imprisonment
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In maritime law, and particularly wlth reference to the stowage of cargo, thls term is contrasted with “out-board.” It does not necessarily mean under deck, but is applied to a cargo so piled or stowed that.it does not project over tbe “board” (side or rail) of the vessel. See Al-len v. St Louis Ins. Co., 46 N. Y. Super. Ct 181
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In Saxon law. A security, pledge, or hypotheca, consisting of the chattels of a person unable to obtain a personal “borg,” or surety
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The act of install-lng or inducting into office with formal cere-monlee, as the coronation of a soverelgn, the inauguration of a presldent or governor, or the consecration of a prelate
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In old records. Profit or product of ground. Cowell
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Heedlessness; lack of attention ; failure of a person to pay care-ful and prudent attention to the progress of a negotiation or a proceeding in court by which his rights may be affected. Used chiefly in statutory enumerations of the grounds on which a judgment or decree may be vacated or set aside; as, “mistake, inadvertence, surprise, or excusable neglect.” See Skinner v. Terry, 107 N. C. 103, 12 S. E. 118; Davis v. Steuben School Tp., 19 Ind. App. 694, 50 N. E. 1; Taylor v. Pope, 106 N. C. 267, 11 S. E. 257, 19 Am. St. Rep. 539; Thompson v. Connell, 31 or. 231, 48 Pnc. 467, 65 Am. St. Rep. 818
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Not subject to alienation ; the characteristic of those things which cannot be bought or sold or transferred from one person to another, such as rivers and public highways, and certain personal rights; c. g., liberty
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Insufficient; dlspropor-tlonate; lacking in effectiveness or in con-formity to a prescribed standard or measure
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That which, under the established rules of law, cannot be ad-mitted or received; e. g., parol evidence to contradict a written contract
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Present to the minds of men, and in full force and operation
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The initial words of the concluding clause in deeds: “In witness whereof tbe said parties, have hereunto set their hands,” etc. A transla-tion of the Latin phrase “in cuj us rei testimonium
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In chains; in actual custody. Gilb. Forum Rom. 97
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without object; without concomitants or coherence
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In the passage over; on the voyage over. See Sir william Scott, 3 C. Rob. Adm. 141
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In transit; on the way or passage; while passing from one person or place to another. 2 Kent, Comm. 540-552; More v. Lott. 13 Nev. 383; Amory Mfg. Co. v. Gulf, etc.. R. Co.. 89 Tex. 419, 37 S. W. 856. 59 Am. St. Rep. 65. On the voyage. 1 C. Rob. Adm. 338
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In so many words; in precisely the same words; word for word
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In the whole; wholly; com-pletely; as the award is void in toto
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