In old English law. An of-fense, mentioned in the old books, where any-thing was done deceitfully, whether belong-ing to contracts or not, which could not be properly termed by any special name. The same as the stellionatus of the civil law. Cowell
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In old- English law. A feudal prerogative or custom for lords to lie and feast themselves at their tenants’ houses. Cowell
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In old English law. To cheat. “A cosenlng knave.” 3 Leon. 17L
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In old English law. Kin-dred; cousinship. Also a writ that lay for the heir where the tres oil, i. e., the father of the besail, or great-grandfather, was seised of lands in fee at his death, and a stranger entered upon the land and abated. Fitzh. Nat Brev. 221
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In Spanish law. A term corresponding to the res communes of the Roman law, and descriptive of such things as are open to the equal and common enjoyment of all persons and not to be reduced to pri-vate ownership, such as the air, the sea, and the water of running streams. Hall, Mex. Law, 447; Lux v. Haggin, 69 Cal. 255, 10 Pac. 707
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In French law. Gratuitous labor exacted from the villages or communities, especially for repairing roads, con-structing bridges, etc. State v. Covington, 125 N. C. 641, 34 S. E. 272
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In Spanish law. A cause or matter adjudged, (res judicata.) white, New Recop. b. 3, tit 8, note
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The name of the legislative assemblies, the parliament or congress, of Spain and Portugal
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The bark of a tree; the outer covering of anything
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A mortuary, thus termed because, when a mortuary became due on the death of a man, the best or sec-ond-best beast was, according to custom, offered or presented to the priest, and carried with the corpse. In wales a corse-present was due upon the death of a clergyman to the bishop of the diocese, till abolished by 12 Anne St. 2, c. 6. 2 Bl. Comm. 426
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In Saxon law. The morsel of execration. A species of ordeal in use among the Saxons, performed by eating a piece of bread over which the priest had pronounced a certain Imprecation. If the accused ate It freely, he was pronounced iu-nocent; but, if it stuck in hls throat. It wns considered as a proof of his guilt. Crabb
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In English law. This was the consequence of attainder. It meant that the attainted person could neither inherit lands or other hereditaments from his ancestor, nor retain those he al-ready had, nor transmit them by descent to any heir, because his blood was considered in law to be corrupted. Avery v. Everett, 110 N. Y. 317, 18 N. E. 148, 1 L. R. A. 264, 6 Am. St Rep. 368. This was abolished by SL 3 & 4 wm. IV. c. 106, and 33 & 34 Vict. c. 23, and is unknown in America. Const. U. S. art. 3, i 3
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To strengthen; to add weight or credibility to a thing by additional and confirming facts or evidence. Still v. State (Tex. Cr. R.) 50 S. W. 355; State v. Hicks, 6 S. D. 825, 60 N. W. 66; Schefter v. Hatch, 70 Hun, 597, 25 N. ¥. Supp. 240
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Illegality; a vicious and fraudulent intention to evade the prohibitions of the law
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Having a mutual or reciprocal relation, in such sense that the existence of one necessarily implies the existence of the other. Father and son are correlative terms. Right and duty are correlative terms
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Interchange of written communications. The’ letters writ-ten by a person and the answers written by the one to whom they are addressed
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In Spanish law. A magistrate who took cognizance of various misdemeanors, and of civil matters. 2 white, New Recop. 53
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Lat in the civil law. Co-stipulators; joint stipulators
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Discipline; chastisement administered by a master or other per-son in authority to one who has committed an offense, for the purpose of curing his faults or bringing him Into proper subjec-tion
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In English law. A feast instituted in 1264, in honor of the sacrament 32 Hen. VIII. c. 2L
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