1. The established order of the division of time into years, months, weeks, and days; or a systematized enumera-tion of such arrangement; an almanac. Rives v. Guthrie, 46 N. C. 86
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A term used vulgarly, and occasionally in judicial proceedings nud law reports, to designate a jail or prison, partic-uarly a town or city jail or lock-up. Suppos-ed to be a corruption of the Spanish calabozo, a dungeon. See Gilliam v. wells, 64 Ga. 194
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A causeway, or common hard-way, maintained and repnir-ed with stones and rubbish
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In old French law. -A list of grievances prepared for deputies in the states-general. A petition for the redress of griev-ances enumerated
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An English statute for enabling the court of chancery to award dam-ages. 21 & 22 Vict. c. 27
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AR. In the Roman law. A cognomen in the Gens Julia, whlch was nssumed by the successors of Julius. Tayl. Civil Law, 31
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Lat. It falls, abates, fails, ends, ceases. See Cadbbe
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UA. In the clvil and old common law. Kept for cuttiug; lntended or used to be cut. A term applled to wood
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A dead human body; a corpse. Cadaver nullius in bonis, no one can have a right of property in a corpse. 3 Co. Inst. 110, 2 Bl. Comm. 429; Griffith v. Rail-road Co., 23 S. C. 32, 55 Am. Rep. 1
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Lat To end; cease; fail. As in the phrases eadit actio, (or breve,) the actlon (or writ) fails; eadit assisa, the assise abates; eadit queestio, the discussion ends, there is no room for further argument
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In Spanish lnw. An official statement of the quantity and value of real property in any district, made for the pur-pose of justly apportioning the taxes payable on such property. 12 Pet 428, note
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In French law. An offldal statement of the quantity and value of realty made for purposes of taxatlon; same as cadastre, (q. r
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Letters is-sued aud signed by the kings of France, and countersigned by a secretary of state, author-izing the imprisonment of a person. Abol-lished during the revolution of 1789
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In Spanish-American law. Property entailed on the caciques, or heads of Indian villages, • and their descendants. Schm. Civil Lnw, 309
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The advisory board or coun-cil of a king or other chief executive. In the government of the United States the cabinet is composed of the secretary of state, the sec-cretary of the treasury, the secretary of the Interior, the secretary of war, the secretary of the navy, the secretary of agriculture, the secretary of commerce and labor, the attor-ney general, and the postmaster general
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In English law. A private and confidential assembly of the most considerable ministers of state, to con-cert measures for the administration of public affairs; first established by Charles I. wharton
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In Spanish law. An allotment of land acquired hy conquest, to a horse soldier. It was a strip one hundred feet wide by two hundred feet deep. The term has been sometimes used in those parts of tlie United States which were derived from Spain. See 12 Pet. 444, note
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In Spanish law. A knight. So called on account of its being more honorable to go on horseback (d caballo) than on any other beast
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Pertaining to a horse. It was a feudal tenure of lands, the tenant furnishing a horseman suitably equipped in time of- war, or when the lord had occasion for his service
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