or COURCHER. A factor who continues abroad for traffic. (37 Edw. III. c. 16;) also the general book wherein any
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A term nsed in Domesday for peasants, boors, husbandmen
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A species of ten-ancy in Ireland, constituted by an agreement in writing, nnd subject to the following terms: That the tenement consist of a dwell-ing-house with not more than half an acre of land; at a rental not exceeding £5 a year; the tenancy to be for not more than a month at a time; the landlord to keep the house in good repair. Landlord and Tenant Act, Ireland, (23 & 24 Vict c. 154, $ 81
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Receipts given for each bale of cotton received on storage hy a public warehouse. Fourth Nat Bank v. SL Louis Cotton Compress Co., 11 Mo. App 337
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A cottager or cottage-hold-er who held by servile tenure and was bound to do the work of the lord. Cowell
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In English law. A small dwelling-house that has no land belonging to it. Shep. Touch. 94; Emerton v. Selby, 2 Ld. Raym. 1015; Scholes v. Hargreaves, 5 Term, 46; Hubbard v. Hubbard, 15 Adol.
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In old English law. The little seat or mansion belonging to a small farm
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The seat of a cottage with the land belonging to it. Spelman
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In old records. A place where there is no wood
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In old English law. Land held by a cottager, whether in socage or vil-lenage. CowelL
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In fendal law. A ser-vile tenant, who held in mere vlllenage; hls person, Issue, and goods were disposable at the lord’s pleasure
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A fashionable association, or a knot of persons forming a particular circle. The origin of the term was purely comrner-dal, signifying an association, in which each member furnished hls part, and bore his share in the profit ond loss, wharton
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In old Engllsh law. A cottager, who held in free socage, aud paid a stated fine or rent in provisions or money, with some occasional personal services
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Anciently, a kind of peasantry who were outlaws; robbers. Blount
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In Spanish law. Cns-tom; an unwritten lnw established by usage, during a long space of time. Las Partidas, pt 1, tit 2, L 4
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Joint sureties; two or more sureties to the same obligation
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A pecuniary allowance, made to the successful party, (and recoverable from the losing party,) for his expenses in prose-cutlng or defending a suit or a distinct pro-ceeding within a suit Apperson v. Insur-ance Co., 38 N. J. Law, 388; Stevens v. Bank, 168 N. I. 560, 61 N. E. 904; Bennett v. Kroth, 87 Kan. 235, 15 Pac. 221, 1 Am. St Rep. 248; Chase v. De wolf, 09 111. 49; Noyes v. State, 46 wis. 250, 1 N. W. 1, 32 Am. Rep. 710
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The cost of an article purchased for exportation is the prlce pald, with all in-cidental charges paid at the place of ezporta-tlon. Goodwin v. U. S., 2 wash. C. C. 493, Fed. Cas. No. 5,554. Cost prlce is that ac-tually paid for goods. Buck v. Burk, 18 N. Y. 337
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A book in which a number of adventurers who have obtained per-mission to work a lode, and have agreed to share the enterprise in certain proportions, enter the agreement, and from time to time the receipts and expenditures of the mlne, the names of the shareholders, their respec-tlve accounts with the mlne, and transfers of shares. These associations are called “Cost-Book Mining Companies,” and are governed by the general law of partnership. LlndL Partn. *147
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A term used by Europeans in In-dia to denote a road-measure of about two miles, but differing in different parts, whar-ton
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