The first crop of grass or hay, in opposition to after-math or second cutting. Paroch. Antiq. 459
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The art, office, or science of heralds. Also an old and obsolete abuse of buying and selling precedence in the pa-per of causes for hearing
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In English law. An ease-ment or liberty, which consists in the right to pasture cattle on another’s ground
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A government exercised by seven persons, or a natlon divided into seven governments. In the year 560, seven dlfferent monarchies had been formed in England by the German tribes, namely, that of Kent by the Jutes; those of Sussex, wes-sex, and Essex by the Saxons; and those of East Anglia, Bernlcia, and Deira by the An-gles. To these were added, about the year 586, an eighth, called the “Kingdom of Mer-cla,” also founded hy the Angles, nnd com-prehendlng nearly the whole of the heart of the kingdom. These states formed what has been designated the “Anglo-Saxon octarchy,” • or more commonly, though not so correctly, the “Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy,” from the cus-tom of speaking of Delra and Bernicia under the single appellation of the “Kingdom of Northumberland.” wharton
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In ancient law, a herald was a diplomatic messenger tvho carried messages between kings or states, and especially proc-lamatlons of war, peace, or truce. In English law, a herald is an ofiicer whose duty is to keep genealogical lists and tables, ad-Just armorial bearings, and regulate the cer-emonies at royal coronations and funerals
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In Saxon law. The servlce of herdsmen, done at the will of their lord
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Sax. In old Engllsh law. An acquittance from a flne for hanglng a thief. Fleta, llb. 1, c. 47, | 17
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Henry the old, or*Elder. Klng Henry I. is so called in anclent English chronicles and charters, to dis-tinguish hlm from the subsequent kings of that name. Spelman
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A fine for flight on account of murder. Domesday Book
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In Saxon law. A prison, a gaol, or house of correction
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A page; an attendant; a herald. See Barnes v. State, 88 Md. 347, 41 Atl. 781
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A customary payment of money Instead of hens at Christmas; a composition for eggs. CowelJ
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A word of futurity, whlch, as employed in legal documents, stat-utes, and the llke, always imports a con-tinuity of action or condition from the pres-ent time forward, hut excludes all the past Thomson v. American Surety Co., 170 N. Y. 109, 62 N. E. 1073; opinion of Chief Justice, 7 Pick. (Mass.) 128, note
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A Saxon brass coin, of the value of a half-penny
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In medical Juriepru-dence. Unilateral paralysis; paralysis of one slde of the body, commonly due to a lesion in the brain, but sometimes originating from the spinal cord, as in “Brown-Sequard’s paral-ysls,” unilateral paralysis with crossed anaesthesia. In the cerebral form, the Aemi-plegia is sometimes “alternate” or crossed, that is, occurring on the opposite side of the body from the initial lesion
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Thatch or straw; a covering for the head in war; a coat of arms bearing a crest; the tiller or haudle of the rudder of a ship
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The end-wall covering and defendlng the rest of the building. Paroch. Antiq. 573
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In Scotch law. The movables which go to the heir, and not to the executor, that the land may not go to the heir completely dismantled, such as the best of furniture, horses, cows, etc., but not funglhles. Bell
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The name formerly given to a place under the exchequer chamber, where the klng’s debtors were confined. Rich. Dict
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A word used in deeds of conveyance, (either solely, or in connection with others,) where it is intended to pass a fee
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The quality or condition of being heir, or the relation between the heir and hls ancestor
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SS. A female heir to a person havlng an estate of lnherltance. when there are more than one, they are called “co-heir-esses,” or “co-heirs.”
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