A writ which lay for a wld-ow. against the executor of her deceased husband, to compel the executor to set ofT to her a thlrd part of the decedent’s personalty, after payment of hls debts. Fitzh. Nat Brev. 122, L
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Exempt from the fot-felture of shipwrecked goods and vessels to the king. Cowell
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A precept in writing, couched In the form of a letter, running in the name of the king, president, or state, issuing from a court of justice, and sealed with its seal, addressed to a sherifT or other oflicer of the law, or directly to the person whose action the court desires to command, either as the commencement of a suit or other proceeding or as incidental to its progress, and requiring the performance of a speclfled act, or giving authority and commission to have it done
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An aggravated species of •assault and battery, consisting iu one per-8on giving another some* dangerous hurt. 3 Bl. Comm. 121
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At eommon law. Such goods as after a shipwreck are cast upon the land by the sea, aud, as lying within the territory of some county, do not belong to the Jurisdiction‘of the admiralty, but to the com-mon law. 2 Inst. 167; 1 Bl. Comm. 290
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OD. In the English . law of descent. A term applled to males, expressive of the preference giveu to them over females. See 2 Bl. Comm. 234-240
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A certain quantity of land so called in the manor of •Kingsland, in Hereford. The tenants are called “worthies." wharton
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Thls term sometlmes denotes all persons whatsoever who may have, claim, or acquire an Interest in the subject-matter; as in saying that a judgment in rem binds "all the world.”
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The act of offering honor and adoration to the Divine Being. Rell-gious exercises participated In by a number of persons assembled for that purpose, tbe disturbance of which is a statutory offense in many states. See Hamsher v. Hamsher, 132 IlL 273, 22 N. E. 1123, 8 L. R. A. 556; State v. District Board, 76 wis. 177, 44 N. W. 967, 7 L. R. A. 330, 20 Am. St. Rep. 41; State v. Buswell, 40 Neb. 158, 58 N. W. 728, 24 L. R. A. 68
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one who labors; one who is employed to do business for another
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This term means sometimes a mill, factory, or other establishment for performing industrial labor of any sort, (South St. Joseph Land Co. v. Pitt, 114 Mo. 135, 21 S. W. 449,) and sometimes a building, struc-ture, or erection of any kind upon land, as in the civil-law phrase “new works.”
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A place where convicts (or paupers) are confined and kept at labor
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In settling lay-days, or days of demurrage, sometimes the con-tract specifies “working daysin the compu-tation, Sundays and custom-house holidays are excluded. 1 Bell, Comm. 577
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The name of one of the common counts in actions of assumpsit, being for work and labor done and materials furnished by the plaintiff for the de* fendant
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A forest; iand covered with a large and thick collection of natural forest
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As used in law, this word gen-erally slgnlfies the technlcal terms and phrases approprlate to particular instruments, or aptly fitted to the expression of a particular intention in legal instruments. See the subtitles following
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A court held twlce In the year iu the forest of Clun, in Shropshire, for determining all matters of wood and' agistments. CowelL
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A license or right to cut down, remove, and use standing timber on a given estate or tract of land, osborne v. o’Reilly, 42 N. J. Eq. 467, 9 Atl. 209
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In forest law. The old name of the court of attachments; other-wise called the “Forty-Days Court” Cowell; 8 Bl. Comm. 71
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In old records. A certain quantity of oats or other grain, pnld by customary tenants to the lord, for liberty to pick up dead or broken wood. Coweli
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In old English law. Money paid for the llberty of taking wood in a forest. Coweil
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All the females of the human species. All such females who have arrived at the age of puberty. Dig. 50, 16, 13
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