Lat This is an agreement, words with which agree-ments anciently commenced. Yearb. H. 6 Edw. II. 191
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In Saxon law. A recompense or satisfaction for the violation of holy orders, or violence offered to persons in holy orders. Cowell; Blount
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In old English law. Hatred; ill will; prejudice, or partiality. Spelman; Cowell
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In Spanish law. The pub-lic domaln; the royal estate; the aggregate wealth of the state. The science of admin-isterlng the national wealth; public economy. Also an estate or farm belonging to a private person
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Carriages plying for hire In the street. The driver is liable for negligently losing baggage. Mas-terson v. Short, 33 How. Prac. (N. Y.) 486
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A person given to ebriety or the excessive use of in-toxicating drink, who has lost the power or the will, by frequent indulgence, to control his appetite for it Ludwick v. Com., 18 Pa. 174; Gourlay v. Gourlay, 16 R. I. 705, 19 Atl. 142; Miskey’s Appeal, 107 Pa. 626; Richards v. Richards, 19 UL App. 467; Mc-Bee v. McBee, 22 Or. 329, 29 Pac. 887, 29 Am. St. Rep. 613
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L. Fr. In old English law. A port or harbor; a station for ships. St. 27 Hen. VI. c. 3
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By statute in several states, one who is convicted of a felony, having been previously convicted of any crime (or twice so convicted), or who is convicted of a misdemeanor and has previous-ly (in New York) been five times convicted of a misdemeanor. Crim. Code N. Y. 1903, § 510; Rev. SL Utah, 1898, g 4067. In a more gen-erai sense, one made subject to police sur-veillance and arrest on suspicion, on account of his previous criminal record and absence of honest employment
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Fr. In French and Ca-nadian law. A resident tenant; a settler; a tenant who kept hearth and home on the selgniory
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Lat in the civU law. The right of dwelling; the right of free resi-dence in another’s house. Inst. 2, 5; Dig. 7,8
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A covenant by a lessee to “pat the premlses into habitable repair” binds bim to pat them into such a state that they may he occupied, not only wlth safety, but with reasonable comfort, for tbe purposes for which they are taken. Miller v. McCardell, 19 R. I. 304, 33 Ati. 445, 30 L. R. A. 682
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Settled dwelling in a given place; fixed and permanent residence there. This term is more cpmprehenslve than “domicile,” for one may he domiciled in a given place though he does not spend the greater portion of hls time there, or though he may be absent for long periods. It is also more comprehensive than “residence,” for one mny reslde in a given place only tem-porarlly or for short periods on the occasion of repeated visits. Bnt in neither case could he properly be called an “inhabitant” of that place or be said to have hls “habitancy” there. See Atkinson v. washington & Jef-ferson College, 54 W. Va. 32, 46 S. B. 253; Hairston v. Hairston, 27 Miss. 711, 61 Am. Dec. 530; Abington v. North Bridgewater, 23 Pick. (Mass.) 170. And see Domicile; Resi-dencs
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Lat. Fit; suitable; active; useful, (of a servant.) Proved; authentic, (of Book of Saints.) Fixed; stable, (of au-thority of the king.) Du Cange
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A disposition or condition of the body or mind acquired by custom or a usual repetitlon of the same act or function. Knlckerbocker L. Ins. Co. v. Foley, 105 U. S. 354, 26 L. Ed. 1055; Conner v. Citizens’ St. R. Co., 146 Ind. 430, 45 N. E. 662; State v. Skil
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A cloth of a mixed color. Magna Charta, c. 26
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Lat. Have or take your effects to yourself, one of the old Roman forms of divorcing a wife. Cal* vin
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Lat. That you cause to have a view. A writ to cause the sherifT to take a view of lands or tenements
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Lat. In Roman law. To allow [one] to have [possession.] This phrase denoted the duty of the seller of property to allow the purchaser to have the possession and enjoyment. For a breach of this duty, an actio ex empto might be main-tained
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Lat. That you cause to have possession. The name of the process commonly resorted to by the successful party in an action of ejectment, for the purpose of being placed by the sheriff in tbe actual possession of the land recovered. It is commonly termed sim-ply “habere facias:* or “hab. fa.**
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Lat. In the civU law. To have. Sometimes distinguished from tenere, (to hdld,) and possidere, (to possess;) habere referring to the right, tenere to the fact, and possidere to both. Calvin
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Lat. In conveyancing. Tiie clanse usually following the granting part of the premises of a deed, which defines the extent of the ownership in the thing granted to be held and enjoyed by the gran-tee. 3 washb. Real Prop. 437; New York Indians v. U. S., 170 U. S. 1, 18 Sup. Ct. 531, 42 L. Ed. 927; Clapp v. Byrnes, 3 App. Dlv. 284, 38 N. V. Supp. 1063; Milier v. Graham
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In old Eng-llsh law. Rich men; literally, having men. The same with fees ting-men, (q. v.) Cowell
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