A tithing, composed of ten neighboring families. 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 13; 1 Bl. Comm. 114
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In old English law. A tithing or decennary; the preclnct of a frank* pledge; consisting of ten freeholders with thejr families. Spelman
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A fraudulent and cheating mis-r epresen tat ion, artifice, or device, used by one or more persons to deceive and trick another, who is ignorant of the true facts, to the prejudice and damage of the party imposed upon. People v. Chadwick, 143 Cal. 116, 76 Pac. 884; Reynolds v. Palmer (C. C.) 21 Fed. 433; French v. Vining, 102 Mass. 132, 3 Am. Rep. 440; Swift v. Rounds, 19 R. I. 527, 35 Atl. 45. 33 L. R. A. 561, 61 Am. St. Rep. 791; In re Post, 54 Hun, 634, 7 N. Y. Supp. 438; Clv. Code Mont. 1895, $ 2292
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(Ten such; or tea tales, jurors.) In practice. The name of a wrlt whlch Issues in England, where, on a trlal at bar, ten jurors are necessary to make up a full panel, commanding the sheriff to summon the requisite number. 3 Bl. Comm. 364; Reg. Jud. 30b; 3 Steph. Comm. 602
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The act of behead-ing. A mode of capital punishment by cat-tlng off the head
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A deceased person; one who has lately died. Etymologically tbe word denotes a person who is dying, but it has come to be used in law as signifying any defunct person, (testate or intestate,) but always with reference to the settlement of his estate or the execution of his will. In re Zeph’s Estate, 50 Hun, 523, 3 N. Y. Supp. 460
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The ofiice, jurisdiction, ter-ritory, or command of a decanus, or dean. Spelman
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In eoolesiastioal and old European law. An officer having supervision over ten; a dean. A term applied not only to ecclesiastical, but to civil and mlll-tary, officers. Decanus monasticus; a monastic dean, or dean of a monastery; an offi-cer over ten monks. Decanus in majori ecclesi#; dean of a cathedral church, pre-siding over ten prebendaries. Decanus epis-copi; a bishop’s or rural dean, presiding over ten clerks or parishes. Dccanus friborgi; dean of a frlborg. An officer among the Saxons who presided over a frlliorg, tithing, decennary, or association of ten lnhabitants; otherwise called a “tithing man,” or “borsholder.” Decanus militaris; a military offl-. cer, havlng command of ten soldiers. Spel
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Tbe ten commandments given by God to Moses. The Jews called them the “Ten words,” hence the name
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A person to whom a debt is due; a creditor. 3 Bl. Comm. 18; Plowd. 543. Not used
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one who owes a debt; be who may be compelled to pay a claim or de-mand
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A sum of money due by certain and express agreement; as by bond for a determinate sum, a bill or note, a speclal bar-gain, or a rent reserved on a lease, where the amount is fixed and specific, and does not depend upon any subsequent valuation to settle It 3 Bl. Comm. 154; Camden v. Allen, 26 N. J. Law, 398; Appeal of City of Erie, 91 Pa. 398; Dickey v. Leonard, 77 Ga. 151; Hagar v. Reclamation Dist, 111 U. S. 701, 4 Sup. Ct. 663, 28 L. Ed. 569; Appeal Tax Court v. Rice, 50 Md. 302
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L. Lat. In old English law. Debts of the laity, or of lay persons. Debts recoverable in the civil courts were anciently so called. Crabb, Eng. Law, 107
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A sum charged as due or owing. The term is used in book-keeping to denote the charging of a person or an account with all that is supplied to or paid out for him or for the subject of the account
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L. Lat. In Scotch law. Debts secured upon land. Ersk. Inst
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He owes and de-tains. words anciently used in the original writ, (aud now, in English, in the plaintiff’s declaration,) in an action of debt, where it was brought by one of the original contract-ing parties who personally gave the credit, against the other who personally incurred the debt, or against his heirs, if they were bound to the payment; as hy the obligee against the obligor, by the landlord agninst the tenant, etc. The declaration, in such cases, states that the defendant “owes to,” as well as “detains from,” the plaintiff the debt or thing iu question; and hence the action is said to be “in the debef et detinct.” where the declaration merely states that the defendant detains the debt, (as in actions by and against an executor for a debt due to or from the testator,) the action is said to be “in the detinct” alone. Fltzh. Nat. Brev. 119, G.; 3 Bl. Comm. 155
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(Lat. He owes and is used to.) where a man sues in a writ of right or to recover any right of which he is for tbe first time disseised, ns of a suit at a mill or in case of a writ of quod permittat
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A certificate given by the collector of a port, under the United States customs laws, to the effect that an Importer of merchandise therein named is entitled to a drawback, (q. v„) specifying the amount and time when payable. See Act Cong. March 2, 1799, $ 80
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A stock or fund representing money borrowed by a company or public body, in England, and charged on the whole or part of its property
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