In old European, law. A husbandman; an inferior tenant employed in cultivating the lord’s land. A term of Ro-man origin, corresponding with the Saxon ceorl. 1 Spence, Ch. 5L
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An appearance, semblance, or simulacrum, as distinguished from that which is real. A prima fade or apparent right Hence, a deceptive appearance; a plausible, assumed exterior, concealing a lack of real* ity; a disguise or pretext Railroad Ch. v. Allfree, 64 Iowa, 500, 20 N. W. 779 ; Berks County v. Railroad Co., 167 Pa. 102, 31 Atl. 474; Broughton v. Haywood, 61 N. C. 383
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In Saxon and old English law. An account or calculation
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A dependent political com-munity, consisting of a number of citizens of the same country who have emigrated there-from to people another, and remain subject to the mother-country. U. S. v. .The Nancy, 3 Wash. C. C. 287, Fed. Cas. No. 15,854
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In the civil law. A mon-ey-changer *, a dealer in money
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one of the usual parts of the declaration in an action for slander. It is a general averment that the words complained of were spoken “of and concern-lng the plaintiff," or concerning the extrin-sic matters alleged in the inducement, and Its office is to connect the whole publlcation wlth the previous statement. Van Vechten v. Hopkins, 5 Johns. (N. ¥.) 220, 4 Am. Dec. 839; Lukehart v. Byerly, 53 Pa. 421; Squires v. State, 39 Tex. Cr. R. 96, 45 S. W. 147, 73 Am. St Rep. 904; Vanderlip v. Roe. 23 Pa. 82; McClaughry v. wetmore, 6 Johns. (N. YJ 82, 5 Am. Dec. 194
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A deceitful agreement br compact between two or more persons, for the one party to bring an action against the other for some evil purpose, as to defraud a third party of his right Cowell
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In French law. The arrangement or marshaling of the creditors of an estate in the order in which they are to be paid according to law. Merl. Repert
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This term is sufficiently wide to include all contiguous and connected veins and seams of coal which are worked as one concern, without regard to the closes or pieces of ground under which they are car-rled, and apparently also the engines and machinery In such contiguous and connected veins. MacSwln. Mines, 25. See Carey ▼. Bright, 58 Pa. 85
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In maritime law. The act of ships or vessels striking together
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In English ecclesiastical law. A church built and endowed for a society or body corporate of a dean or other president, and secular priests, as canons or prebendaries in the said church; such as the churches of westminster, wind-sor, and others. CowelL
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Lat in the civil law. A word having various meanings; e. g., an assembly, society, or company; a body of bishops; an army; a class of men. But the princlpal Idea of the word was that of an assoclatlon of individuals of the same rank and statlon, or united for the pursuit of some business or enterprise. Sometimes, a corporation, as in the maxim “tres faciunt collegium” (1 B1. Comm. 469), though the more usual aud proper designation of a cor-poration was “unlversitas.”
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In a corporate ca-pacity. 2 Kent, Comm. 296
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Lat. In the civil law. A co-legatee. Inst 2, 20, 8
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A co-legatee; a per-son who has a legacy left to him in common with other persons
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loot on delivery. See C. O. D.—Collector. one authorized to receive taxes or oth-er impositions; as “collector of taxes." A person appointed by a private person to collect the credits due him.—Collector of decedent’s estate. A person temporarily appointed by the probate court to collect rents, assets, interest, bills receivable, etc., of a decedent's estate, and act for the estate in all financial matters re-quiring immediate settlement. Such collector is usually appointed when there is protracted liti
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In the civil law. one in-vested with joint authority. A colleague; an associate
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To gather together; to bring scattered things (assets, accounts, articles of property) into one mass or fund
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A writ directed to justices of the common pleas, commanding them to issue their writ to the bisbop, for tbe admission of a clerk in the place of ain-other presented by the crown, where there had been a demise of the crown during a salt; for judgment once passed for the king’s clerk, and he dying before admittance, the
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