A place of burial, dlffer-ing from a churchyard by its locality and ln-cidents.—by Its locality, as It is separate and apart from any sacred building used for the performance of divine service; by its lnd-dents that, inasmuch as no vault or burying-place in an ordinary churchyard can be pur-chased for a perpetuity, in a cemetery a per-ninnent burial place can be obtained, wharton. See winters v. State, 9 lnd. 174; Ceme-tery Ass’n v. Board of Assessors. 37 La. Ann. 35; Jenkins v. Andover, 103 Mass. 104; Cem-etery Ass’n v. New Haven, 43 Conn. 243, 21 Am. Rep. 643
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Small pieces of wood laid iu the form of tiles to cover the roof of a house; shingles. Cowell
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The formal act by which a man aud woman take each other for husband and wife, accord-lng to law; the solemnization of a marriage. The term is usually applied to a marriage cer-emony atteuded with eccleslastlcal functions. See Pearson v. Ilowey, 11 N. J. Law, 19.
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The condition or state of life of an unmarried person
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In medical jurisprudence. Concealment of preguancy or delivery
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In old Engllsh law, a chal-dron. In old Scotch law, a measure of grain, otherwise called a “chalder.” See 1 Kames, Eq. 215
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In French law. The technic-al name of an act under private signature. Campbell v. Nicholson, 3 La. Anu. 458
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In Scotch law. An assignor, one who transfers a chose lu action
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I grant. The word ordinarily used in Mexican conveyances to pass title to lands. Mulford v. Le Franc, 26 Cal. 88, 108
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Payment or forfeiture of an animal. An ancient species of forfeiture
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To yield up; to assign; to grant. Generally used to designate the transfer of territory from one government to another. Goetz v. Unlted States (C. C.) 103 Fed. 72; Baltimore v. Turnpike Road, 80 Md. 535, 31 Atl. 420; Somers v. Pierson, 16 N. J. Law, 181
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In old English law. Cay-age or kayage; a toll or duty anciently pald for landing goods at a quay or wharf. Cow-ell
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A bargain; anything for sale; a chattel; also cattle, as being the usual medl-um of barter. Sometimes used instead of ceapgild, (q. v
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Persons stealing ore from mines in Derbyshire, punishable in the bergh-mote or miners’ court; also officers beloug-ing to the same mines, wharton
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In old English law. A quay, kay, key, or wharf. Cowell
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Let the traveler beware. This phrase has been used as a concise expression of the dnty of a traveler on the highway to use due care to detect and avoid
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Lat in the civil and common law. To take care; to exercise caution; to take care or provide for; to provide by law; to provide against; to forbid by law; ’to give security; to give caution or security on arrest
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OR. Let the buyer take care. This maxim summarizes the rule that the purchaser of an article must examine, judge, and test it for himself, being bound to discover any obvious defects or imperfec-tions. Miller v. Tiffany, 1 wall. 309, 17 L. Ed. 540; Barnard v. Kellogg, 10 wall. 388, 19 L. Ed. 987; Slaughter v. Gerson, 13 wall. 383, 20 L. Ed. 627; Hargous v. Stone, 5 N. Y. 82; wissler v. Craig, 80 Va. 32; wright v. Hart, 18 wend. (N. Y.) 453
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Lat Let him beware. A formal notice or warning given by a party ln-terested to a court, judge, or ministerial offl-cer against tbe performance of certain acts within his power and jurisdiction. This process may be used in the proper courts to pre-vent (temporarily or provisionally) the prov-lng of a will or the grant of admlnistration, or to arrest the enrollment of a decree in chancery when the party Intends to take an appeal, to prevent the grant of letters patent, etc. It is also used, in the American prac-tlce, as a kind of equitable process, to stay the granting of a patent for lauds, wilson v. Gaston, 92 Pa. 207; Slocum v. Grandin, 38 N. J. Eq. 485; Ex parte Crafts, 28 S. C. 281, 6 S. E. 718; In re Miller's Estate, 166 Pa. 97, 81 Atl. 58
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In French law. The same as becoming surety in English law
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