In old records. A loan or advance of money upon credit. Cowell
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Fr. The road wherein every man goes; the king's highway
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In old Scotch law. A chief dwelling or mansion house
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In old French law. The privllege or prerogative of the eldest A pro-vincial term derived from chemier, (q. v.) Guyot, Inst
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In old French law. The eldest born. A term used in Poitoh nnd other places. Guyot, Inst
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In Anglo-Norman law. Were or weregild; the price of the head or person, (capitis pretium
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A kind of tenure men-tioned in a patent of 35 Edw. III. Cowell; Blount
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Swindling; defrauding. “Deceitful practices in defrauding or endeavoring to defraud another of his known right, by some willful device, contrary to the plain rules of common honesty." Hawk. P. G b. 2, c. 23, | 1. “The fraudulent obtaining the property of another by any deceitful and Illegal practice or token (short of felony) which afTects or may affect the public.” Steph. Crim. Law, 93
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An lnstru-ment of sale of personalty conveying the title of the property to the mortgagee with terms of defeasance; and, if the terms of redemption are not complied with, then, at common latv, the title becomes absolute in the mort
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A homicide com-mltted in the heat of an affray and while under the influence of passion; it is thus dis-tinguished from chance-medley, which is the killing of a man in a casual affray in self-de-fense. 4 Bl. Comm. 184. See 1 Russ. Crimes, 600
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Purity; continence. That virtue which prevents the unlawful inter-course of the sexes. Also the state of purity or abstinence from unlawful sexual connection. People v. Brown, 71 Hun, 601, 24 N. Y. Supp. 1111; People v. Kehoe, 123 Cal. 224, 65 Pac. 911, 69 Am. SL Rep. 52; State v. Carron, 18 Iowa, 375, 8T Am. Dec. 401
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An article of personal prop-erty; any species of property not amounting to a freehold or fee in land. People v. Hol-brook, 13 Johns. (N. Y.) 94; Hornblower v. Proud, 2 Barn. & Aid. 335; State v. Bartlett, 65 Me. 211; State v. Brown, 9 Baxt (Tenn.) 64, 40 Am. Rep. 81
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(For return-ing the charters.) An ancient writ which lay against one who had charters of feoffment intrusted to his keeping and refused to de-liver them. Reg. orig. 159
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In old European law. A keeper of records or public iustru-ments; a chartulary; a registrar. Spelman
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A ship hired or freighted; a ship which is the subject-matter of a charter-party
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In mercantile law. One who charters (i. e., hires or engages) a ves-sel for a voyage; a freighter. 2 Steph. Comm. 184; 8 Kent, Conun. 137; Turner v. Cross, 83 Tex. 218, 18 S. W. 578, 15 L. R. A. 262
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otherwise called “book-land,” is property held by deed under certain rents and free services. It, In effect, differs nothing from the free socage lands, and hence have arisen most of tbe freehold tenants, who bold of particular manors, and owe suit and service to the same. 2 BL Comm. 90
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A contract by which an entire ship, or some principal part thereof, is let to a merchant for the convey-ance of goods on a determined voyage to one or more places. The Harvey and Henry, 86 Fed. 656, 30 C. C. A. 830; The New York (D. C.) 93 Fed. 497; Vandewater v. The Yankee Blade. 28 Fed. Cas. 980; Spring v. Gray, 6 Pet. 151, 8 L. Ed. 352; Fish v. Sullivan, 40
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Fr. In French ma-rine law. A charter-party
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Formerly a con-vent of Carthusian monks in London; now a college founded and endowed by Thomas Sutton. Tbe governors of the charter-house are a corporation aggregate without a head, president, or superior, all the members being of equal authority. 8 Steph. Comm. (7th Ed.) 14, 97
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The char-ters (grants) of libertles. These are Magna Charta and Charta de Foresta
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The word “chart,” as used in the copyright law, does not Include sheets of paper exhibiting tabulated or methodically arranged information. Taylor v. Gilman (C. C.) 24 Fed. 632
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