A term applied in the civU law to cases where a law was repeated, or laid down in the same terms or to the Bame effect, more than once. Cases of Iter* ation and repetition. 2 Kent, Comm. 489, note
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In modern civil law. To approve; to confirm; as a court homologates a proceeding. See Homologation. Literally, to use the same words with an-other; to say the like. Viales v. Gnrdenler, 9 Mart. O. S. (La.) 324. To assent to what another says or writes
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In Spanish law. The tacit consent and approval inferred by law from the omission of the parties, for the space of ten days, to complain of the sen-tences of arbitrators, appointment of syndics, or assignees of insolvents, settlements of successions, etc. Also the approval given by the judge of certain acts and agreements for the purpose of rendering them more bind-ing and executory. Escrlche
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In the civil law. To confirm or approve; to consent or assent; to confess. Calvin
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Fr. In feudal law. Fendal tenants; the same with horn
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Lat. A man; a human being, male or female; a vassal, or feudal tenant; a retainer, dependent, or servant
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Fr. Man; a man. This term is defined by the Civil Code of Louisiana to include a woman. Article 3522, notes 1, 2
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Fr. In feudal law. Men of the fief; feudal tenants; the peers in the lords’ courts. Montesq., Esprlt des Lois, liv. 28, c. 27
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Lat. In feudal law. Men; feudatory tenants who claimed a privilege of having their causes, etc., tried only in their lord’s court. Paroch. Antiq. 15
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In old English law. The maiming of a man. Blount
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In old English law. A writ directed to a corporation, re-qulring the members to make choice of a man to keep one part of the seal appointed for statutes merchant, when a former is dead, according to the statute of Acton Burnell. Reg. orig. 178; wharton
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In English law. A writ which lay to replevy a man out of prison, or out of the custody of any private person, in the same manner that chat-tels taken in distress may he replevied. Brown
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A writ to take him that had taken any bond man or woman, and led him or her out of the country, so that he or she could not be replevied accordlng to law. Reg. orig. 79
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The killing of any human creature. 4 Bl. Comm. 177. The killing of one human being by the act, procurement, or omission of another. Pen. Code N. Y. 8 179. The act of a human being In taking away tbe
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The home place; the place where the home is. It is the home, the
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Pertaining to homicide; relating to homicide; impelling to homicide; as a homicidal mania. (See Insanity
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A mansion-house. Dlck-inson v. Mayer, 11 Heisk. (Tenn.) 521
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when a person voluntarily takes up his abode in a given place, with intention to remain permanently, or for an indefinite period of time, or without any present inten-tion to remove therefrom, such place of abode becomes hls residence or home. This word has not the same technical meaning as “domicile.” See isnghammer v. Munter, 80 Md. 518, 31 Atl. 300, 27 L. R. A. 330; King v. King, 155 Mo. 406, 56 S. W. 534; Dean v. Cannon, 37 W. Va. 123, 16 S. H 444; Jef-ferson v. washington, 19 Me. 293; welch v. whelpley, 62 Mich. 15, 28 N. W. 744, 4 Am. St. Rep. 810; warren v. Thomaston, 43 Me. 418, 69 Am. Dec. 69
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In Spanlsh law. The judge of a district Also an arbitrator chosen by the parties to a suit Also a man in good standing; one who is competent to testify in a suit
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