A liberty to use a craue for drawing up goods and wares of burden from ships and vessels, at any creek of the sea, or wharf, unto the land, and to make a. profit of doing so. It also signifies the money paid and taken for the service. Tomlins
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A term vulgarly applled to a person of eccentric, ill-regulated, and un-practical mental habits; a person half-craz-ed; a monomaniac; not necessarily equiva-lent to “insane pereon,” “lunatic,” or auy other term descriptive of complete mental derangement, and uot carrying any implica-tion of homicidal mania, walker v. Tri-bune Co. (C. C.) 29 Fed. 827
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Pusillanimity; fear; misbehavior through fear in relation to some duty to be performed before an enemy. o’Brien, Ct. M. 142; Coil v. State, 62 Neb. 15, 86 N. W. 925
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1. A general term, uow commonly applied to all kinds of sailing vessels, though formerly restricted to the smaller
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A secret conspiracy or agreement between two or more persons to Injure or defraud another. Mlx v. Muzzy, 28 Conn. 191; Anderson v. Oscainp (Ind. App.) 35 N. E. 707; Hyslop v. Clarke, 14 Johns. (N. Y.> 465
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Deceitful; fraudulent; having the nature of, or tainted hy, covin
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Covered, protected, sheltered-A pound covert is one that is close or covered over, as distinguished from pound overt, which is open overhead. Co. Litt 47b; 3 BL Comm. 12. A feme covert is so called, as being under the wing, protection, or cover of her husband. 1 Bl. Comm. 442
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The condition or state of a married woman. Sometimes used elliptic-ally to describe the legal disability arising from a state of coverture, osbom v. Horine, 19 111. 124; Roberts v. Lund, 45 Vt 86
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The name given to* the statute 22 & 23 Car. II. c. 1, which provided for the punishment of assaults with intent to maim or disfigure a person. It wan so named from its beiug occasioned by an as-sault on Sir John Coventry in the street. 4 Bl. Comm. 207; State v. Cody, 18 or. 506, 23 Pac. 891
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The phrase “covered ln-to tbe treasury,” as used in acts of congress and tbe practice of the United States treasury department, means that money hns actually >been paid into the treasury in tbe regular manner, as distlngulshed from merely depositing it with the treasurer. U. S. v. Johnston, 124 U. S. 236, 8 Sup. Ct 446, 31 L. Ed. 389
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In Pennsylvanla practice. This is tbe name of a plea to the action of covenant whereby the defendant, npon informal notice to the plain-tiff, may give anything in evidence which he might have pleaded, wlth the addltlon of the words “absque hoc” it amounts to a de
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A contraction, in the old books, of the word “convent”
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The party to whom a covenant is made. Shep. Touch. 160
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The party who makes a covenant. Shep. Touch. 160
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A Freuch word slgnlfy-ing convenient or suitable; as covenably en-dowed. it is aucieutly wrltten “couveuable.” Termes de la Ley
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In practice. The name of a common-law form of action ex contractu, whlch lies for the recovery of dam-ages for breach of a covenant, or contract under seal. Stickney v. Stickney, 21 N. H. 68
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(otherwise spelled “Uoustumicr” or “Coutumier.”) In old French law. A collection of customs, un-written laws, and forms of procedure. Two such volumes are of especial importance in juridical history, viz., the (Jrand CouStumicr de Normandie, aud the Coutumier de France or Grand Coutumier
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A person who will-ingly and knowingly received au outlaw, and cherished or concealed him; for which of-feuse he uuderweut the same punishment as the outlaw himself. Bract. 128b; Spelman
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Klndred in the fourth degree, being the issue (.male or female) of the broth-er or sister of one’s father or mother
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The superior courts, both of law and equity, were for centuries fixed at Westmiuster, an ancient palace of the monarchs of England. Formerly, all the superior courts were held before the kiug’s capital justiciary of Eng-lund, iu the aula regis, or such of his palaces wherein hls royal person resided, and reiuov-ed with his household from one end of the kingdom to another. This was found to occasion great inconvenience to the suitors, to remedy which it was made an article of the great charter of liberties, both of King John and King Henry III., that “common pleas should uo longer follow the kiug’s court, but be held iu some certain place,” lu consequence of which they have ever since been held (a few necessary removals iu times of the plague excepted) lu the palace of west-minster only. The courts of equity also sit at westminster, nominally, during term time, although, actually, oniy duriug the first day of term, for they generally sit in courts provided for the purpose in, or in the neigh-borhood of, Lincoln’s Inn. Brown.
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The rolls of a manor, containing all acts relatlng thereto, whlle belongiug to the lord of the manor, they are not in the nature of publlc books for the benefit of the tenant
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In old Eng-lish law. One of the forest courts, having a somewhat similar jurisdiction to that of the court of attachments, (q. v
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