Sending threatening letters is the name of the offense ef sending letters containing threats of the kinds recognized by the statute as crlmlnal. See People v. Griffin, 2 Barb. (N. Y.) 429
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In old English law. A measure of corn or grain, consisting of twenty-four sheaves or four shocks, six sheaves to every shock. Cowell
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A middle line; a line rnn-nlng through the middle of a stream or road. See Filum; FIlum Aquas; Filum Via
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Fixing “this day six months," or “three months,” for the next stage of a bill, is one of tho modes in which the house of lords and the house of commons reject bllls of whlch they disapprove. A bill rejected in this manner cannot be reintroduced in the same session, wharton
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The term means, a accordlng to Its derivation, a street or pas-sage through which one can fare, (travel;) that is, a street or highway affording an unobstructed exit at each end into another street or public passage. If the passage is closed at one end, admitting no exit there, it is called a “cul de sac.” See Cemetery Ass’n v. Meninger, 14 Kan. 315; Mankato ▼. warren, 20 Minn. 150 (Gll. 128); wig
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When “this” and “that” refer to different things before expressed, “this” re-fers to the thing last mentioned, and “that" to the thing first mentioned. Russell v. Kennedy, 66 Pa. 251
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The designation, In colloquial language, of that portion of a decedent's personal estate (one-third) which goes to the widow where there is also a child or chib dren. See Yeomans v. Stevens, 2 Allen (Mass.) 350; o’Hara v. Dever, 46 Barb. (N, Y.) 614
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In Scoteh law. A servitude by which lands are astricted or “thirled1’ to a particular mill, to which the possessors must carry the grain of the growth of the astricted lands to be ground, for the payf-ment of such duties as are either expressed or Implied in the constitution of the right Ersk. Inst. 2, 9, 18
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Following next after the sec, ond j also, with reference to any legal in? strument or transaction or judicial proceeding, nny outsider or person not a party tq the affair nor immediately concerned in lt
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The third part of the corn growing on the land, due to the lord for a herlot on the death of his tenant, witiv in the the manor of Turfat, in Hereford. Blount
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NK. In a special finding by a Jury, this word is equivalent to "believe,” and ex-presses the conclusion of the jury with suffl-cient positiveness. Martin v. Central Iowa Ry. Co., 59 Iowa, 414, 13 N. W. 424
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Tlie most general denomina-tion of the subjects of property, as contra-distinguished frpm persons. 2 Bl. Comm. Id
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US. In Saxon law. A thane or nobleman; knight or freeman. Cowell
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At once; without lnter-ruption; without delay or lapse of time. Putnam v. Langley, 133 Mass. 205
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In Saxon law. offenders who? joined in a body of seven to commit depreda* tions. wharton
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In Saxon law. A husband- * man or Inferior tenant; an under-thane. Cowell
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