This term is not synonymous with a “place of pauper settlement.” Lisbon v. Lyman, 49 N. H. 553
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I. In genealogical tables, a com-mon abbrevlation for “died wlthout issue.”
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To have an abode; to lnhablt; to live in a place. Gardener v. wagner, 9 Fed. Cas. 1,154; Ex parte Blumer, 27 Tex. 736; Putnam v. Johnson, 10 Mass. 502; Ea-tontown v. Shrewsbury, 49 N. J. Law, 188, 6 Atl. 319
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In lts use in jurisprudence, this word is the correlative of right. Thus, wherever there exists a right in any person, there also rests a corresponding duty upon
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(From duo, two, and viri, men.) A general appellation among the an-cient Romans, given to any magistrates elect-ed in pairs to fill any office, or perform any function. Brande
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A term used in Hlndostan for a passport, permit, or order from the English East Indian Company. It generr ally meant a permit under their seal exempting goods from the payment of duties. Enc. Lond
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A county palatine in Eng-land, the Jurisdictlon of which was vested in the Bishop of Durham until the statute 6 & 1 Vfm. IV. c. 19, vested it as a separate franchlse and royalty in the crown. The Jurisdiction of the Durham court of pleas was transferred to the supreme court of judlca-ture by the Judicature act of 1873. 1
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In old English law. Blows wlthout wounding or bloodshed; dry blows. Blount
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In India. A court, audience, or levee. Mozley & whitley
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one who subjects another to duress; one who compels another to do a thlng, as by menace. Bac. Max. 90, reg. 22
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The technical fault, in pleading, of uniting two or more causes of action in one count in a writ, or two or more grounds of defense in one plea, or two or more breaches in a replication, or two or more offenses in the same count of an in-dictment. Tucker v. State, 6 Tex. App. 253; waters v. People, 104 IH. 547; Mullin v, Blumenthal, 1 Pennewill (Del.) 476, 42 Atl. 175; Devlno v. Railroad Co., 63 Vt. 98, 20 AU. 953; Tucker v. Ladd, 7 Cow. (N. Y.) 452
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Lat During. A word of limltation in old conveyances. C0. Litt 234b
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In the civU law. The defendant’s answer to the plaintiff’s replica-tion; corresponding to the rejoinder of the common law
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A donble com-plalnt An ecclesiastical proceeding, which is in the nature of an appeal from an ordi-nary’s refusal to institute, to hls next im-mediate superior; as from a bishop to the archbishop. If the superior adjudges the cause of refusal to be insufficient, he will grant institution to the appellant Phillim. Ecc. Law’, 440
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A dozen hands, i. e., twelve wltnesses to purge a criminal of on ofTense
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In the civil law. Double the price of a thing. Dig. 21, 2, 2
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Twelve hands. The oaths of twelve men, including hlmself, by whom the defendant was allowed to make his law. 8 BL Comm. 343
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People that dwell on hilly places or mountains. Jacob
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A double; a kind of base coin less than a farthing
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Pieces of wood placed against the sides and bottom of the hold of a vessel, to preserve the cargo from the effect of leakage, according to its nature and qual-ity. Abh. Shipp. 227
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