In the civil law. A theft (furtum) was called “oonceptum," when the thing stolen was searched for, and found upon some person In the presence of witness-es. Inst 4, 1, 4
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Lat. I grant A word nsed in old Anglo-Saxon grants, and in statutes merchant
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In Irish practice. The payment of wages in land, the rent being work-ed out in labor at a money valuation, whar-ton
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To hide; secrete; withhold from the knowledge of others
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Fr. A count or earl. In the ancient French law, the comte was an officer having jurisdiction over a particular district or territory, with functions partly military and partly judicial
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Lat. To compute, reckon, or account. Used in the phrases insimul computassent, “they reckoned together," (see Inbimto, 😉 plene computavit, “he has fully accounted,” (see Plene;) quod computet, “that he account,” (see Quod Computet
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The act of comput-ing, numbering, reckoning, or estimating
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Constraint; objective necessity. Forcible inducement to the corn-mission of an act. Navigation Co. v. Brown, 100 Pa. 346; U. S. v. Kimball (C. C.) 11T Fed. 163; Gates v. Hester, 81 Ala. 357, 1 South. 848
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one of several neigh-bors of a person accused of a crime, or charged as a defendant in a eivll action, who appeared and swore that they believed him on his oath. 3 Bl. Comm. 34L
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A surreptitious printing of another book-seller’s copy of a work, to make gain thereby, which was contrary to common law, and is illegal, wharton
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In the civil law. Chil-dren by a former marriage, (indlvidualiy called “privigni," or “privign#,") consider-ed relatively to each other. Thus, the son of a husband by a former wife, and the daughter of a wife by a former husband, are the comprivigni of each other. Inst. 1, 10,8
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Interest up-on Interest, i. e., when the Interest of a sum of money is added to the principal, and then bears Interest, which thus becomes a sort of secondary principal. Camp v. Bates, 11 Conn. 487; woods v. Rankin, 2 Heisk. (Tenn.) 46; U. S. Mortg. Co. v. Sperry (C. 0.) 26 Fed. 730
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In Loulslana. The maker of a composition, generally called the “amicable compounder.”
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The statute of ells and perch-es. The title of an English statute establish-lng a standard of measures. 1 Bl. Comm. 275
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An agreement, made upon a sufficient consideration, between an insolvent or embarrassed debtor and hls creditors, whereby the latter, for the sake of immediate payment, agree to accept a div-idend less than the whole amount of their claims, to be distributed pro rata, in dis-charge and satisfaction of the whole. Bank v. McGeoch, 92 wis. 286, 66 N. W. 606; Crossley v. Moore, 40 N. J. Law, 27; Craw-ford v. Krueger, 201 Pa. 348, 50 Atl. 931; In re Merriman’s Estate, 17 Fed. Cas. 131; Chapman v. Mfg. Co., 77 Me. 210; In re Ad-ler (D. Q) 103 Fed. 444
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Having the use of one’s limbs, or the ■power of bodily motion. Si fvit ita compos sui quod itincrare potuit de loco in locum, if he had so far the use of his limbs as to be able to travel from place to place. Bract, fol. 14b
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