one whose property has been seized and sold under a confiscation act, e. g., for unpaid taxes. See Brent v. New orleans, 41 La. Ann. 1098, 6 South. 793
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Capable of belng confiscated or suitable for confiscatlon; liable to forfeiture. Camp v. Lockwood, 1 Dall. (Pa.) 393, 1 L. Ed. 194
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In civll and old English law.. To confiscate; to claim for or bring into the fisc, or treasury. Bract fol. 150
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A contract by which that which was Infirm, imperfect, or subject to be avoided is made firm and unavoidable
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To complete or establish that which was imperfect or uncertain; to ratify what has been done without authority or insufficiently. Boggs ▼. Mining Co., 14 CaL 305; Railway Co. v. Ransom, 15 Tex. Civ. App. 689, 41 8. W. 826
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The conveyance of an estate, or the communication of a right that one bath in or unto lands or tenements, to another that hath the possession thereof, or some other estate therein, whereby a void-able estate is made sure and unavoidable, or whereby a particular estate is increased or
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Intrusted with the confidence of another or with his secret af-falrs or purposes; intended to be held in confidence or kept secret
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Confinement may be by either a moral or a physical restraint, by threats of violence with a present force, or by physical restraint of the person. U. S. v. Thompson, 1 Snmn. 171, Fed. Cas. No. 16,492; Ex parte Snodgrass, 43 Tex. Cr. R. 8J59, 65 S. W. 1061
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Trust; reliance: ground of trust In the construction of wills, this
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An ecclesiastic who receives auricular confessions of sins from persons under hls spiritual charge, and pronounces absolution upon them. The secrets of the confessional are not privileged communications at common law, but this has been changed hy statute in some states. See 1 Greenl. Ev. M 247, 248
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To admit the truth of a charge or accusation. Usually spoken of charges of tortions or criminal conduct
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Lat. A confession. Con-fessto in judicio, a confession made in or before a court
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A league or corn-pact for mutual support, particularly of princes, nations, or states. Such was the colonial government during the Revolution
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A meeting of several persons for deliberation, for the interchange of opinion, or for the removal of differences or disputes. Thus, a meeting between a counsel and solicitor to advise on the cause of their client
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The making and completion of a written instrument 5 Coke, 1
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In old English law. A woman at fourteen or fifteen years of age may take charge of her house and receivo cone and key; that is, keep tbe accounts and keys. Cowell. Said by Lord Coke to be cover and keye, meaning that at that age a woman knew what in her house should be kept under lock and key. 2 Inst 203
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In Roman law. A sacrificial rite resorted to by marrying persons of high patrician or priestly degree, for the purpose of clothing the husband with the manus over his wife; the civil modes of ef-fectlng the same thing being coemptio, (form* al,) and usus mulieris, (Informal.) Brown
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