In old English law. An associate judge. Bract. 403
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Matrlmonlal rights; the right which husband and wife have to each other’s society, comfort, and affection
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A slight degree of cre-dence, arising from evidence too weak or too remote to cause belief, weed v. Scofield, 73 Conn. 670, 49 Atl. 22
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Persons married to each other. Story, Confl. Laws, | 71
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In the civU law of evidence. A throwing together. Presumption; the put-ting of things together, with the inference drawn therefrom
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In the civU law. A statement of the case. A brief synopsis of the case given by the advocate te the judge in opening the trial. Calvin
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The extreme practical test of the truth of a charge of impotence brought against a husband hy a wife. It is now disused. Causes Chiebres, 6, 183
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An ancient measure contain-ing about a gallon and a pint. Cowell
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An assembly or so-ciety of persons who together constitute the
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L. Fr. Lawful; permissible ; allowable. “Disseisin is properly where a man entereth into any lauds or tene-ments where his entry is not congeable, and putteth out him that hath the freehold.” Lltt. S 279. See Ricard v. williams, 1 wheat. 107, 5 L. Ed. 398
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This term, as used in the civil law and in compound terms derived from that source, means a blending or intermingling, and is equivalent to the term “merger” as used at common law. Palmer v. Burnside, 1 w’oods, 182, Fed. Cas. No. 10,685
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Fr. In the French law. Per-mlssion, leave, license; a passport or clear-ance to a vessel; a permission to arm, equip, or navigate a vessel
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In criminal law. the act of setting a witness face to face with the prisoner, In order that the latter may make any objection he has to the witness, or that the witness may identify the accused. State v. Behrman, 114 N. C. 797, 19 S. E. 220, 25 L. R. A. 449; Howser v. Com., 51 Pa. 332; State v. Mannion, 19 Utah, 505, 57 Pac. 542, 45 L. R. A. 638, 75 Am. St. Rep. 753; People v. Elliott, 172 N. Y. 146, 64 N. E. 837, 60 L. R. A. 318
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In the clvll law. The inseparable intermixture of property belonging to different owners; it is properly confined to the pouring together of fluids, but is sometimes also used of a melting together of metals or any compound formed by the irrecoverable commixture of different substances
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Fr. In old English law. A fraternity, brotherhood, or society. Cowell
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Brethren in a religious house; fellows of one and the same society. Cowell
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In English ecclesiastical * law. Adherence to the doctrines and usages of the Church of England
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1. An opposition, conflict, or antagonism between differ
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The act of confiscating; or of condemning and adjudging to the public treasury
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To appropriate property to the use of the state. To adjudge property to be forfeited to the public treasury; to seize and condemn private forfeited property to public use. ware v. Hylton, 3 Dali. 234, 1 L. Ed. 568; State v. Sargent, 12 Mo. App. 234
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