Subjectively, the sentiment or motive of beuevolence and philanthropy; the disposition to relieve the distressed, ob-jectively, alms-giving; acts of benevolence; relief, assistance, or services accorded to the needy without return. Also gifts for the promotion of philanthropic and humanitarian purposes. Jackson v. Phillips, 14 Allen (Mass.) 556; Vidal v. Girard, 2 How. 127, 11 L. Ed. 205; Historical Soc. v. Academy of Science, 94 Mo. 459, 8 S. W. 346
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A quantity con-sisting of 36 pigs of lead, each pig weighing about 70 pounds
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Having the character or purpose of a charity, (q. v
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The expenses which have been incurred, or disbursements made, in connection with a contract, suit, or business transaction. Spoken of an action, it is said that the term includes more than what falls under the technical description of “costs.”
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An attorney's lien, for hls proper compensation, on the fund or judgment which’ his client has recovered by means of his professional aid aud services. Goodrich v. McDonald, 112 N. Y. 157, 19 N. E. 649; Young v. Renshaw, 102 Mo. App. 173, 76 S. W. 701; Ex parte Lehman, 59 Ala. 632;. Koons v. Beach, 147 Ind. 137, 45 N. E. 601, 46 N. E. 587; In re wilson (D. C.) 12 Fed. 239; Sewing Ma.ch. Co. v. Boutelle, 56 Vt 576, 48 Am. Rep. 762
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This word, in its ordinary acceptation, as applicable to the im-position of a duty or burden, signifies capable of being charged, subject to be charged, liable to be charged, or proper to be charged. Gil-fillan v. Chatterton, 38 Minn. 335, 37 N. W. 583; walbrldge v. walhridge, 46 Vt 625
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A paper kept at a police-station to receive each night the names of tbe persons brought and given into cus-tody, the nature of the accusation, and the name of the accuser in each case. It is un-der the care of the inspector on duty, whar-ton
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In Scotch law. A writ commanding a person to enter heir to his predecessor within forty days, otherwise an action to be raised against him as lf he had entered
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The aggregate of the moral qualities which belong to and distin-gulsh an individual person; the geueral re-suit of the one’s distinguishing attributes
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Under the former system of equity practice, this phrase was used to characterize the usual method of taking an account before a master. After the plaintiff had presented hls “charge," a written statement of the items of account for which he asked credit, the de-fendant filed a counter-statement, called a “discharge,” exhibiting any claims or de-mands he held against the plaintiff. These served to define the field of investigation, and constituted the basis of the report
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An itinerant vendor of small wares. A trader who trades from place to place. Say. 191, 192
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In ecclesiastical law. A congregation' of ecclesiastical persons in a cathedral church, consisting of canons, or* prebendaries, whereof the dean is the head, all subordinate to the bishop, to whom they act as assistants in matters relating to the church, for the better ordering and disposing the things thereof, and the confirmation of such leases of the temporalty and offices re-lating to the bishopric, aa the bishop shall lnake from time to tlme. And they are term-ed "capitulum," as a klnd of head, instituted not only to assist the bishop in manner aforesaid, but also aucieutly to rule and govern the diocese in the time of vacation. Burn, Dict
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A summary of matters to be inquired of or presented before justices in eyre, Justices of assise, or of the peace, in their sessions. Also articles delivered by the justice in his charge to the Inquest Brit c. lit
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An ecclesiastic who performs dlvlne service in a chapel; but it more commonly means one who attends upon a king, prince, or other person of quality, for the performance of clerical duties in a prl-vate chapel. 4 Coke, 90
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The precinct and limits of a chapel. The same thing to a chapel as a parish is to a church. Cowell; Blount
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A hood or bonnet ancient-ly worn hy the Knights of the Garter, as part of the habit of that order; also a little escutcheon fixed In the forehead of horses drawing a hearse at a funeral, wharton
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A church or chapel eudowed with lands for the maintenance of priests to say mass daily for the souls of the donors. Termes de la Ley; Cowell
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A place of worship; a lesser or inferior church, sometimes a part of or subordinate to another church, webster. Rex v. Nixon, 7 Car. & P. 442
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Thfs term refers rather to tbe bed in which the main stream of a river flows than to tbe deep water of the stream as followed in navigation. Bridge Co. v. Du-buque County, 55 Iowa, 558, 8 N. W. 443. See The oilver (D. C.) 22 Fed. 849; Iowa v. Il-linols, 147 U. S. 1, 13 Sup. Ct. 239, 37 L. Ed. 55; Cessill v. State, 40 Ark. 504
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The chief singer in the choir of a cathedral. Mentioned in 13 Eliz. c. 10
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Equity; equitable jurisdic-tion; a court of equity; the system of ju-risprudence administered in courts of equity. Kenyon v. Kenyon, 3 Utah, 431, 24 Pac. <829; Sullivan v. Thomas, 3 Rich. (S. C.) 531. See Court of Chancebt
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An officer formerly belong-ing to the king’s mint, in England, whose business was chiefly to exchange coin for bullion brought in by merchants and others
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. In crimlnal law. A sudden affray. This word is sometimes applied to any kind of homicide by misad-venture, hut in strictness it is applicable to such killing only as happens in defending one's self. 4 Bl. Comm. 184
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