Bias; partiality; lenity; prejudice. See Challenge
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In tbe oivil law. Negligence; want of care. An lmproper act or omission, Injurious to another, and transpiring through negligence, rashness, or ignorance
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In French law, and in Louisiana. A district or part of a town ad-joining the principal city; a suburb. See City Couucil of Lafayette v. Holland, 18 La. 286
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(Jaws of the land.) Narrow headlands and promontories, inclos-ing a portion or arm of the sea within them. 1 Kent, Comm. 367, and note; Hale, De Jure Mar. 10; The Harriet, 1 Story, 251, 259, Fed. Cas. No. 6,099
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one entirely des-tltute of reason; is qui omnino desipit. Ersk. Inst. 1, 7, 48
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In old English law. Fa-tnity; idiocy. Reg. orig. 266
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Lat. Fate; a superhuman pow-er; an event or cause of loss, beyond human foresight or means of prevention
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A nautical measure of six feet in length. Occasionally used as a super-ficial measure of land and in mining, and in that case it means a square fathom or thirty-six square feet. Nahaolelua v. Kaaa-hu, 9 Hawaii, 60L
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In Roman law. Lawful. Dies fasti, lawful days; days on which justice could lawfully be administered by the praetor. See Dies Fasti
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The male parent He by whom a child is begotten. As used in law, this term may (according to the context and the nature of the Instrument) include a pu-tatlve as well as a legal father, also a step-father, an adoptive father, or a grandfather, but is not as wide as the word “parent,” and cannot be so construed as to include a female. Lind v. Burke, 56 Neb. 785, 77 N. W. 444; Crook v. webb, 125 Ala. 457, 28 South. 384; Cotheal v. Cotheal, 40 N. Y. 410; Lantznes-ter v. State, 19 Tex. App. 321; Thornburg v. American Strawboard Co., 141 Ind. 443, 40 N. E. 1062, 50 Am. St. Rep. 334
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In Georgia, a “fast” bill of excep-tions is one which may be taken in injunc-tion suits and similar cases, at such time and in such manner, as to bring the case up for review with great expedition. It must be certified within twenty days from the render-tag of the decision. Sewell v. Edmonston, 66 Ga. 353
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A day of fasting and pen-itence, or of mortification by religious absti-nence. See 1 Chit Archh. Pr. (12th Ed.) 160, et seq
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The ancient appellation of Serjeants’ Inn, Chancery lane
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Lat . An ill-com-posed book containing a collection of mlscel-laneous subjects not properly associated nor scientifically arranged, wharton
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1. The lessee of a farm. It is said that every lessee for life or years, although it be but of a small house and land, is called “farmer.” Thls word implies no mystery, except it be that of husbandman. Cunningham; Cowell
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An unlawful game of cards, in which all the other players play against the banker or dealer, staking thelr money upon the order in which the cards will lie and be dealt from the pack, webster; ward v. State, 22 Ala. 19; U. S. v. Smith, 27 Fed. Cas. 1149; Patterson v. State, 12 Tex. App. 224
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Money paid by tenants in lieu of a heriot. It was often applied to the best chattel, as dlstlngulshed from heriot, the best beast. Cowell
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