Cne who wrongfully keeps the owner of lands and tenements out of the possession of them. 2 BL Comm. 350
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L. Lat To withhold lands or tenements from the rightful own
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In English law. To wlth-hold wrongfully; to withhold the possesslon of lands from one who is lawfully entitled to them. 3 Bl. Comm. 172; Phelps v. Bald-win, 17 Conn. 212
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Deforcement is where a man wrongfully holds lands to which another person is entitled. It there-fore Includes disseisin, abatement, discon-tinuance, and Intrusion. Co. Litt 277b, 331b; Foxworth v. white, 5 Strob. (S. C.) 115; Woodruff v. Brown, 17 N. J. Law, 269; Hopper v. Hopper, 21 N. J. Law, 543. Bnt it is applled especially to cases, not falling under those beads, where the persou entitled to the freehold has never had possession
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That which finally and completely ends and settles a controversy. A definitive sentence or judgment is put In opposition to an interlocutory judgment
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Seduction or de-bauching. The act by which a woman is deprived of her virglnlty
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Lat. Definition, or, more strictly, limiting or bounding; as in the max-im of the civil law: Omnis definitio pericu-losa est, parum est enim ut non subverti possit, (Dig. 50, 17, 202;) h e., the attempt to bring the law within the boundaries of precise definitions is hazardous, as there are hut few cases in which such a limitation can-not be subverted
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A description of a thing by its properties; an explanation of the meaning of a word or term, webster. The process of stating the exact meaning of a word by means of other words, worcester. See warner v. Beers, 23 wend. (N. ¥.) 103; Marvin v. State, 19 Ind. 181; Mickle v. Miles, 1 Grant, Cas. (Pa.) 828
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To debauch, deflower, or cor-rupt the chastity of a woman. The term does not necessarily imply force or ravishment, nor‘does it connote previous immaculateness. State v. Montgomery, 79 Iowa, 737, 45 N. W. 292; State v. Fernnld, 88 Iowa, 553, 55 N. W. 534
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To explain or state the exact meaning of words and phrases; to settle, make clear, establish boundaries. U. S. v. Smith, 5 wheat. 160, 5 L. Ed. 57; waiters v. Richardson, 93 Ky. 374, 20 S. W. 279; Miller v. Improvement Co., 99 Va. 747, 40 S. E. 27, 86 Am. St. Rep. 924; Gould v. Hutchins. 10 Me. 145
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A lack, shortage, or in-sufficiency. The difference between the total amount of the debt or payment meant to be secured by a mortgage and that realized on foreclosure and sale when less than the total. A Judgment or decree for the amount of such deficiency is called a “deficiency judgment” or “decree.” Goldsmith v. Brown, 35 Barb. (N. Y.) 492
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Something wanting, generally in the accounts of one intrusted with money, or in the money received by him. Mutual L. & B. Ass’n v. Price, 19 Fla. 135
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An inclosure of land; any fenced ground. See Defenso
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Delayed; put off; reinand-ed; postponed to a future time
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That part of any open field or place that was allotted for corn or hay, and upon which there was no common or feeding, was anciently said to be in defenso; so of any meadow grouud that was laid in for hay only. The same term was applied to a wood where part was inclosed or fenced, to secure the growth of the underwood from the injury of cattle. Cowell
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In Eng-llsh ecclesiastical law. A species of plead-ing, where the defendant, instead of denying the plaintiff’s charge upon oath, has any cir-cumstances to offer in hls defense. This en-titles him, in his turn, to the plaintiff’s an-swer upon oath, upon which he mny proceed to proofs as well as his antagonist. 3 Bl. Comm. 100; 3 Steph. Comm. 720
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A war in defense of, or for the protection of, national rights. It may be defensive In its principles, though offensive in its operations. 1 Kent, Comm. 50, note
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That which is offered and alleged by the party proceeded against in an action or suit, as a reasou in law or fact why the plaintiff should not recover or establish what he seeks; what is put forward to defeat an action. More properly what is sufficient when offered for this purpose. In el-ther of these senses it may he either a deuial, justification, or confession and avoidance of the facts averred as a grouud of action, or nn exception to their sufficiency in point of law. whitfleld v. Insurance Co. (C. C.) 125 Fed. 270; Miller v. Martin, 8 N. J. Law, 204
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In old English law. A lord or earl of the marches, who was the warden and defender of hls country. Cowell
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In old English law. A park or place fenced in for deer, and defended as a property and peculiar for that use and service. Cowell
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L. Fr. A defender or defendant; the party accused in an appeal. Britt, c. 22
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