Lat. In the civil law. Cog-nates ; relations by the mother’s side. 2 Bl. Comm. 235. Relations In the llne of the mother. Hale, Com. Law, c. xi. Relations by or through females
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one who is a joint executor with one or more others
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In English law. A principal officer of the royal establishment, next under the controller, who, in the counting-house nnd elsewhere, had a special charge and oversight of the other officers, whose wages he paid
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The act of purchasing the whole quantity of any commodity, wharton
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Compulsion; force; duress. It may be either actual, (direct or positive,) where physical force is put upon a man to compel him to do an nct against hls wlll, or implied, (legal or constructive,) where the relatlon of the parties is such that one is under subjection to the other, nnd is thereby constralned to do what his free will would refuse. State v. Darlington, 153 Ind. 1, 53 N. E. 925; Chappell v. Trent, 90 Va. 849, 19 S. E. 314; Radich v. Hutchins, 95 U. S. 213, 24 L. Ed. 409; Peyser v. New York, 70 N. Y. 497. 26 Am. Rep. 624; State v. Boyle, 13 R. I. 538
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In the Roman law. A codicil; an informal and inferior kind of will, in use among the Romans
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Mutual purchase, one of the modes in which marriage was contracted among the Romans. The man and the woman delivered to each other a small piece of mon-ey. The man asked the woman whether she would become to him a paterfamilias, (mis-tress of his family,) to which she replied that she would. In her turn she asked the man
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Lat A code or collection of laws; particularly the Code of Justinian. Also a roll or volume, and a book written on paper or parchment
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A testamentary dlsposition subsequent to a will, and by which the will is altered, explained, added to, subtracted from, or confirmed by way of republlcatlon, but in no case totally revoked. Lamb v. Lamb, 11 Pick. (Mass.) 376; Dunham v. Averill, 45 Conn. 79, 29 Am. Rep. 642; Green v. Lane, 45 N. C. 113; Grimball v. Patton, 70 Ala. 631; Proctor v. Clarke, 3 Redf. Sur. (N. Y.) 448
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A collection or compendium of laws. A complete system of positive law. scientifically arranged, and promulgated hy leglslatlve authority. Johnson v. Harrison, 47 Mlnn. 575, 50 N. W. 923, 28 Am. St Rep. 882; Railroad Co. v. State, 104 Ga. 831, 31
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In English law. A seal be-longlng to the custom-house, or rather a scroll of parchment, sealed and dellvered by the officers of the cu6tom-house to merchants, as a warrant that their merchandises are entered; likewise a sort of measure. Fleta, lib. 2, c. ix
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A name which used to be given to the judicial committee of the privy council, the council-room belng built on the old cockpit of whitehall Place
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Heraldic ensigns, introduced by Richard I. from the Holy Land, where they were first invented, originally they were painted on the shields of the Chris-tian knights who went to the Holy Land during the crusades, for the purpose of lden-tifying them, some such contrivance being necessary in order to distinguish knights when clad in armor from one another, wharton
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In med-ical jurisprudence. A method of sernm-diag-nosis of insanity from haemolysis (breaking up of the red corpuscles of the blood) by ln-Jectlons of the venom of cobras or other serpents. This test for insanity has recently been employed in Germany and some other European countries and in Japan
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The edge or margin of a country bounding on the sea. It is held that the term includes small islands and reefs natu-rally connected with the adjacent land, and rising above the surface of the water, al-though their composition may not be suffl-clently firm and stable to admit of their be
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In English law. A body of officers and men raised and equipped by the commissioners of the admiralty for the defense of the coasts of the realm, and for the more ready manning of the navy in case of war or sudden emergency, as well as for the protection of the revenue against smugglers. Mozley & whitley
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In French law. An un-lawful agreement among several persons not to do a thing except on some conditions agreed upon; particularly, industrial com-binations, strikes, etc.; a conspiracy
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one of two or more os-signees of the same subject-matter
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A uniting or combining together of persons; a conspiracy. 0 Coke, 56
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A species of promissory note, formerly in use in the port of London, containing the phrase “value received in coals.” By the statute 3 Geo. II. c. 26, SS 7, 8, these were to be protected and noted as inland bills of exchange. Bnt this was re-pealed by the statute 47 Geo. III. sess. 2, c. 68, | 28
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An assistant, helper, or oily; particularly a person appointed to as-sist a bishop who from age or infirmity is unable to perform his duty. Olcott v. Ga-bert, 86 Tex. 121, 23 S. W. 985. Also an overseer, (coadjutor of an executor,) and one who disseises a person of land not to his own use, but to that of another
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or CLIPEUS. In old English law. A shield; metaphorically one of a no-ble family. Cigpei prostrati, noble families extinct Mat Paris, 463
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Coach is a generic term. It is a kind of carriage, and is distinguished from other vehicles, chiefly, as being a covered box, hung on leathers, with four wheels. Turnpike Co. v. Neil, 9 ohio, 12; Turnpike Co. v. Frink, 16 Pick. (Mass.) 444
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