The executioner; hangman; he that executes the extreme penalty of the law
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To entice, to corrupt, and, when used of a woman, to seduce, origl-nally, the term had a limited signification, meaning to entice or draw one away from his work, employment, or duty; and from this sense lts application has enlarged to in-dude the corruption of manners and viola-tion of the person. In Its modern legal sense, tbe word carries with it the idea of “carnal
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The extinction of life; tbe de-parture of the soul from the body; defined by physicians as a total stoppage of the cir-cu la tion of the Llood, and a cessation of the
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In Scotch law. A state of sickness which ends in death. Ersk. Inst 3, 8, 95
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To traffic; to transact business; to trade. Makers of an accommodation note are deemed dealers wlth whoever discounts it. Vernon v. Manhattan Co., 17 wend. (N. Y.) 524
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In English ecclesiastical law. An ecclesiastical dignitary who presides over the chapter of a cathedral, and is next in rank to the bishop. So called from having been originally appointed to superintend ten canons or prehendaries. 1 Bl. Comm. 382; Co. Lltt. 95; Spelman
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A man that is born deaf, dumb, and blind is looked upon by the law as in the same state with an idlot, he being supposed incapable of any understand-ing. 1 Bl. Comm. 304. Nevertheless, a deaf and dumb person may be tried for felony if the prisoner can be made to understand by means of signs. 1 Leach, C. L. 102
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In old English law. To discharge from being forest. To free from forest laws
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In old European law. A profession of irreconcilable hatred till a person is revenged even by the death of his enemy
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In Scotch law. The part remaining over beyond the shares se-cured to the wldow and children by law. of this the testator had the unqualified disposal. Bell
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This term is applied to persons other than the officers, agents, or em-ployes of a rallroad company who are per-mitted by the company to travel on the road without paying any fare therefor. Gardner v. Hall, 61 N. C. 21
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In English law. A rent payable on a mining lease in addltlon to a royalty, so called because it is payable al-though the mine may not be worked
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A corpse. The body of a human being, deprived of life, but not yet en-tirely disintegrated. Meads v. Dougherty County, 98 Ga. 697, 25 S. E. 915
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Letters which the postal department has not been able to deliver to the persons for whom they were intended. They are sent to the “dead-letter office,” where they are opened, and returned to the wrlter if his address can be ascertained
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A writ that lay where a man had a day in any action to appear in proper person, and the king at that day, or before, employed him in some service, so that he could not appear at the day incourt It was directed to the justices, that they should not record him to be In default for his not appearing. Fitzh. Nat Brev. 17> A; Termes de la Ley
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ln ecclesiastical law. A minister or servant In the church, whose office is
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From the neighborhood, or vicinage. 3 Bl. Comm. 360. A term ap-plled to a Jury
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writ of warranty of charter. A writ which lay for him who was enfeoffed, with clause of war-ranty, [in the charter of feoffment,] and was afterwards impleaded in an assise or other action, In which he could not vouch or call to warranty; in which cnse he might have this writ against the feoffor, or his heir, to* compel him to warrant the land unto him. Reg. orig. 157b; Fitzh. Nat Brev. 134, Dt Abolished by St 3 & 4 wm. IV. c. 27
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Of the signification of words. An important title of the Digests or Pandects, (Dig. 50, 16.) consisting entirely of definitions of words-and phrases used in the Roman law.
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writ of (or for) removing lay force. A writ whlch lay where two parsons contended for a church, and one of them entered Into it with a great number of laymen, and held out the other vi et armis; then he that was hqlden out had this writ directed to the sheriff, that he remove the force. Reg. Orlg. 59; Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 64, D
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A writ to inspect the body, where a woman feigns to be pregnant, to see whether she is with child. It lies for the heir presumptive to ex-amine a widow suspected to be feigning pregnancy in order to enable a supposititious heir to obtain the estate. 1 Bl. Comm. 456; 2 Steph. Comm. 287
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Word for word. Bract fol. 138b. Literally, from word to word
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A writ which lay where a man’s wife had been ravished and carried away. A specles of writ of trespass. Reg. orig. 97; Fitzh. Nat Brev. 89, O; 3 Bl. Comm. 139.
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