In English law, a general term for any sort of grain; but in America it is properly applied only to maize. Sullins v. State, 53 Ala. 476; Kerrick v. Van Dusen, 32 Minn. 317, 20 N. W. 228; Com. v. Pine, 3 Pa. Law J. 412. In the memorandum clause in policies of Insurance it includes pease and beans, but not rice. Park, Ins. 112; Scott v. Bourdillion, 2 Bos. & P. (N. R.) 213
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A measure of wood, containing 128 cubic feet. Kennedy v. Railroad Co., 07 Barb. (N. Y.) 177
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A persou summoned to answer a hill, petition, or libel, to-gether with another respondent. Now chief-ly used to designate the person charged wlth adultery with the respondent in a salt for divorce for that cause, and joined as a de
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UM, or CORAAGE. Measures of corn. An unusual and extraordl-nary tribute, arlslng only on special occasions. They are thus distinguished from services. Mentioned in connection with hidage and carvage. Cowell
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Lat. Before; in presence of. Applled to persons only. ‘ Townsh. Pl. 22
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A species of estate at will, or customary estate in England, the only vis-ible title to whlch consists of the copies of the court rolls, which are* made out by the steward of the manor, on a tenant’s belng admitted to any parcel of land, or tenement belonging to the manor. It is an estate-at the will of the lord, yet such a wlll as is agreeable to the custom of the manor, which customs are preserved and evidenced by the rolls of the several courts baron, in which they are entered. 2 Bl. Comm. 96. In a larger sense, copyhold is said to Import every customary tenure, (that is, every ten-ure pending on the particular custom of a manor,) as opposed to free socage, or free-hold, which may now (since the abolition of knlght-service) be considered as the gen-eral or common-law tenure of the country. 1 Steph. Comm. 210
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The right of literary property as recognized and sanctioned by positive law. A right granted by statute to the author or originator of certain liter-ary or artistic productions, whereby he is invested, for a limited period, with the sole and exclusive privllege of multiplying copies of the same and publishing aud sell-lng them. In re Rider, 16 R. I. 271, 15 Atl. 72; Mott Iron works v. Clow, 83 Fed. 316, 27 C. C. A. 250; Palmer v. De.wltt, 47
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The corporal consummation of marriage. Copula, (in logic,) the link be-tween subject and predicate contained in the verb
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The transcript or double of an original writlng; as the copy of a patent, charter, deed, etc
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In medical jurisprudence. A disposition or habit of using ob-scene language, developing unexpectedly in the particular individual or contrary to his previous history and habits, recognized as a sign of Insanity or of aphasia
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Lat. In civil and old English law. Opportunity or means of access
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In English law. A crop or cock of grass, hay, or corn, divided into tltheable portions, that it may be more falr-ly and Justly tithed
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In Scotch law. The contract of copartnership. A contract by which the several partners agree concerning the communication of loss or gain, aris-ing from the subject of the contract. Bell
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A custom or tribute due to the crown or lord of the soil, out of the lead mines in Derbyshire; also a hill, or the roof and covering of a house; a church vestment
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one who is a partner with one or more other persons; a member of a partnership
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A species of estate, or tenancy, which exists where lands of inheritance descend from thc ancestor to two or more persons. It urises in England either l*y common law or particular custom. By common law, as where a person, seised in fee-simple or fee-tall, dies, and his next heirs are two or more females, his daughters, sisters, aunts, cousins, or thelr representatives; In this case they all inherit, aud these co-helrs are then called “coparceners,” or, for brevity, “parceners” only. Lltt. $$ 241, 242; 2 Bl. Coram. 187. By particular custom, as where lands descend, as in gavelkind, to all the males in equal degree, as sons, brothers, uncles, etc. Litt. $ -65; 1 Steph. Comm. 319
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Persons to whom an estate of inheritance descends jointly, and by whom it is held as an entire estate. 2 BL Comm. 187
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A concurring choice; the election, by the members of a close corporation, of a person to fill a vacancy
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of the same order, rank, degree, or authority; concurrent; without any dtstlnctlon of superiority and inferiority; ns, courts of “co-ordinate jurls-dictiou.” See Jubisdiction
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In old English law. The head or branches of a tree cut down; though CQopertio arborum is rather the bark of tim-ber trees felled, and the chumps and broken wood. Cowell
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In forest law. A covert; a thicket (dumetum) or shelter for wlld beasts In a forest Spelman
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