In Scotch law. The action by which an arrestment (garnish-ment) is made effectual. It is a decree or process by which the creditor is given the right to demand that the sum arrested be applied for payment of hls claim. 2 Kames, Eq. 288, 289; .Bell
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A bond given to a sheriff who has levied on property, conditioned that the property shall be forthcom-ing, i. e., produced, when required, on the giving of such bond, the goods are allowed to remain in the possession of the debtor. Hill v. Manser, 11 Grat (Va.) 522; Nichols v. Chittenden, 14 Colo. App. 49, 59 Pac. 954
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A fortress or place of strength, which anciently did not pass without a special grant 11 Hen. VII. c. 18
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In old Scotch law. A fortalice; a castle. Properly a house or tower which has a battlement or a ditch or moat about lt
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In criminal law. To make oath to that which the deponent knows to be untrue
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This term means “something inore than a mere military camp, post, or station. The term implies a fortification, or a place protected from attack by some such means as a moat, wall, or parapet.” U. S. v. Tichenor (C. C.) 12 Fed. 424
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An attorney or advo-cate in a cause. Blount; whishaw
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An exception; reservation,; excepted; reserved. Anciently, a term of frequent use in leases and conveyances. Cowell; Blount
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In Spanish law. The place where tribunals hear and determine causes,—exer-cendarum litium locus
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In Spanish law. Emphyteutic rents. Schm. Civil Law, 309
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In Spanish law. An oven. Las Partidas, pt. 3, tit. 32, 1. 18
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The fee taken by a lord of his tenant, who was hound to bake in the lord’s common oven, (in fumo domini,) or for a commission to use hls own
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Unlawful sexual ln-tercourse between two unmarried persons. Further, if one of the persons be married and the other not, it is fornication on the part of the latter, though adultery for the former. In some Jurisdictions, however, by statute, It is adultery on the part of both persons if the woman is married, whether the man is married or not. Banks v. State, 96 Ala. 78, 11 South. 404; Hood v. State, 56 Ind. 263, 26 Am. Rep. 21; Com. v. Lafferty, 6 Grat. (Va.) 673; People v. Rouse. 2 Mlch. N. P. 209; State v. Shear, 51 wis. 460. 8 N. W. 287; Buchanan v. State, 55 Ala. 154
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In Roman law. when the legis actiones were proved to be inconven
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Collections of formula, or forms of forensic proceedings and Instruments used among the Franks, and other early continental nations of Europe. Among these the formulary of Marculphus may be mentioned as of considerable inter-est. Butl. Co. Litt. note 77, lib. 3
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In common-law practice, a set form of words used in Judicial proceed-lngs. In the civil law, an action. Calvin
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A certain weight of above 70 lbs., mentioned in 51 Hen. III. Cowell
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ION, or FOR-MER RECOVERY. An adjudication or recovery in a former actlon. See Res Judi-cata
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In criminal law, and particularly with reference to homicide, this term means a deliberate and fixed in-tention to kill, whether directed against a particular person or not. Mitchell v. State, -60 Ala. 33; wilson v. State, 128 Ala. 17, 29 South. 569; Ake v. State, 30 Tex. 473
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