water arising from a salt well belonging to a person who is not the owner of the soil.
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An organized and sys-tematic collection of rules of jurisprudence; as, particularly, the body of the civil law, or carpus juris civilis
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A county at large, as distinguished from any particular place withiu it. A county considered as a territorial whole. State v. Arthur, 39 Iowa, 632; People v. Dunn, 31 App. Div. 139, 52
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Belg. and Germ. Bottomry, (q. v
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A person. Used of a natural body, or of an artificial one created by law, as a Corporation
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Sax. A scribe, notary, or chancellor among the Saxons
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Pertaining to or concerning the body; of or belonging to the body or the physical constitution; not mental but cor-poreal. Electric R. Co. v. Lauer, 21 Ind. App. 466, 52 N. E. 703
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A small open vessel, or water-craft, usually moved by oars or rowing. It is commonly distinguished In law from a ship or vessel, by heing of smaller size and with-out a deck. U. S. v. open Boat, 5 Mason, 120, 137, Fed. Cas. No. 15,967
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A term applied In some states to minor rivers and streams capable of being navigated in small boats, skiffs, or launches, though not by steam or sailing ves-sels. New England Trout, etc.. Club v. Mnth-er, OS Vt. 338. 35 Atl. 323, 33 L. R. A. 569
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one who, heing the iuhab-itaut of a place, makes a special contract wlth another person for food with or without lodging. Berkshire woollen Co. v. Proctor, 7 Cush. (Mass.) 424
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A boarding-house is not in common parlance, or in legal mean-ing, every private house where one or more boarders are kept occasionally only and upon special considerations. But it is a quasi pub-lie house, where boarders are generally and habitually kept, and which is held out and known as a place of entertainment of that kind. Cady v. McDowell, 1 Lans. (N. Y.) 486
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A supposititious code of severe laws for the regulation of religious and personal conduct in the colonies of Connecticut and New Haven; hence any rigid Sunday laws or religious regulations. The assertion by some writers of the existence of the blue laws has no other basis than the adoption, by the first authorities of the New Haven colony,' of the Scriptures as their code of law and government, and their strict application of Mosaic principles. Century Dict
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A committee of persons organ-ized under authority of law in order to exer-clse certain authorities, have oversight or control of certain matters, or discharge cer-tain functions of a magisterial, representa-tive, or fiduciary character. Thus, “board
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In forest law. The having the hands or other parts bloody, whlch, in a person caught trespassing in the forest against venison, was ohe of the four kinds of circumstantial evidence of his having killed deer, although he was not found in the act of chasing or hunting. Manwood
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A weregild, or pecuniary mulct paid by a slayer to the rela-tlves of his victim
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ln international law. A marine investment or beleaguering of a town or harbor. A sort of olrcumvallatlon round a place by whlch all foreign connection and correspondence is, as far as human power can effect it, to be cut off. 1 C. Rob. Adm. 151. It is not necessary, however, that the place should be Invested by land, as well as by sea, in order to constitute a legal block-ade; and, lf a place be blockaded by sea only, it is no violation of belligerent rights for tbe neutral to carry on commerce wlth it by inland communications. 1 Kent, Comm. 147
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Kindred; consanguinity; fam-lly relationship; relation by descent from a
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A square or portion of a city or town inclosed by streets, whether partially or wholly occupied by buildings or containing only vacant lots, ottawa v. Bar-ney, 10 Kan. 270; Fraser v. ott, 95 Cal. 661, 30 Pac. 793; State v. Deffes, 44 La. Ann. 164, 10 South. 597; Todd v. Railroad Co., 78 111. 530; Ilarrison v. People, 195 111. 466, 63 N. B. 191
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In Pennsylva-nta land law. Any considerable body of contiguous tracts surveyed in the name of the same warrantee, without regard to the manner in which they were originally located; a body of contiguous tracts located by exterior lines, but not separated from each other by interior lines. Morrison v. Seaman, 183 Pa. 74, 38 Atl. 710; Ferguson ▼. Bloom, 144 Pa. 549, 23 Atl. 49
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In England, where a testator directs his real and personal estate to be sold, and disposes of the proceeds as forming one aggregate, this is called a “blended fund.”
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In old English law. Boughs broken down from trees and thrown in a way where deer are likely to pass. Jacob
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