Lat. Choice of the person. By this term is understood the right of a partner to exercise his choice and preference as to the admission of any new members to the firm, and as to the per-sons to be so admitted, lf any
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A person who is delegated or commissioned to act in the stead of an* other; a person to whom affairs are commlt-ted by another; an attorney
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In old English law. The reward of an Informer, whishaw
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To retard; obstruct; pnt off; hinder; interpose obstacles; as, when it is said that a conveyance was made to “hinder and delay creditors.” Mercantile Co. v. Ar-nold, 108 Ga. 449, 34 S. E. 176; Ellis ▼. Valentine, 65 Tex. 532
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In the civil law. An accu-satlon or lnformation
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In French marine law. Abandonment. Emerig. Tr. des Ass. ch. 17
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In Scotch law. To accuse. Delated, accused. Delatit off arte and parte, accused of being accessary to. 3 How. St. Tr. 425, 440
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L. Fr. In old English practlce. of well being; of form. The same as de bene esse. Britt, c. 39
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In mercantile law. A phrase borrowed from the Italians, equivalent to our word “guaranty” or “warranty,” or the Scotch term “warrandice;” an agreement by which a factor, when he sells goods on credit, for an additional commission, (called a “del credere commission,”) guaran-tles the solvency of the purchaser and his
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In Spanish law. Surren-der; release; abandonment; e. g., the act of an Insolvent in surrendering hls property for the benefit of hls creditors, of an heir in re-noundng the succession, the abandonment of Insured property to the underwriters
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Lat By the grace of God. A phrase used in the formal title of a “king or queen, importing a claim of sover-eignty by the favor or commission of God. In ancient times it was incorporated in the titles of inferior officers, (especlally ecclesias-tlcal.) bnt in later use was reserved as an as-eertlon of “the dlvlne right of kings
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The judgment of God. The old Saxon trial by ordeal, so called be-cause it was thought to be an appeal to God for the justlce of a cause, and It was bellev-ed that the decision was according to the will and pleasure of Dlvlne Providence, wharton
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In tbe law of deseent and family relations. A step or grade, i. e., the distance, or number of removes, which separates two persons who are related by consanguinity. Thus we speak of cousins in the “second degree
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L. Fr. ont of; without; he-yond; foreign to; unconnected with. Dehors the record; foreign to the record. 3 BL Comm. 887
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Revlllng; holding one up to public obloquy; lowering a person in the estimation of the public
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Lat Dead. “Defunctus sine prole,” dead without (leaving) issue
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Deceased; a deceased per-son. A common term in Scotch law
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To practice fraud; to cheat or trick: to deprive a person of property or any lnterest, estate, or rlght by fraud, de-ceit, or artifice. People v. wiinan, 148 N. Y. 29, 42 N. E. 408; Alderman v. People, 4 Mlch. 424, 69 Am. Dec. 321; U. S. v. Cur-ley (C. C.) 122 Fed. 740; weber ▼. Mick, 131
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In Spanish law. The crime committed by a person who fraud-ulently avoids the payment of some public tax
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L. Lat in old Engllsh law. A distress, distraint, or seizure of goods for satisfaction of a lawful debt. Cowell
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