In medical juris-prudence. A person of doubtful or double sex; one possessing, really or apparently, and in more or less developed form, some or all of the genltal organs of both sexes
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The science or art of construction and Interpretation. By the phrase “legal hermeneutics” is understood the systematic body of rules which are recognlzed as applicable to the construction and lnterpretatlon of legal writings
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In Scotch law. A proprietor of land. 1 Eames, Eq. Pref
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In Spanish law. A fra* ternity formed among different towns and villages to prevent the commission of crimes, and to prevent the abuses and vexations to which they were subjected -by men in power. Bouvier
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Capable of being taken by descent A . term chiefly used In Scotch law, where it enters lnto several phrases
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In tbe oivil law. Every species of immovable whlch can be the subject of property; such as lands, houses, orchards, woods, marshes, ponds, etc., in whatever mode they may have been acquired, either by descent or purchase. 3 Toullier, no. 472
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Laying down of arms. Blount Desertion from the army. Spelman
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The station of an army; the place where a camp is pitched. Spelman
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In old Scotch law. A flue or penalty for not obeying the proclaina-tion made for warfare. Skene
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In English’law. A customary tribute of goods and chattels, payable to the lord of the fee on the decease of the owner of the land
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In old Engllsh law. A species of mllitary servlce, or knlght’a fee. Cowell
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In Saxon law. offenders who joined in a body of more than thirty-five to commit- depredations
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In old Engllsh law. A sort of garment. Cowell
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In old records. A court or yard for drawing up guards or mllitary retinue. Cowell
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In Scotch law. A glft or present made or left by a tenant to his lord as a token of reverence. Skene
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A general, leader, or commander; also a baron of the realm. Dn Fresne
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This word simply de-notes time past, in distinction from time present or time future, and has no definite and precise signification beyond this. Andrews v. Thayer, 40 Conn. 157
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A hired soldier who departs withont license. 4 Inst 128.
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In English law. An offense against religion, consisting not in a total de-nlal of Christianity, but of some of its essen-tlal doctrines, publicly and obstinately avow-ed. 4 Bl. Comm. 44, 45. An opinion on dlvlne subjects devised by human reason, openly taught, and obstinately maintained
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