In English l*w. Blasphemy is the offense of speaking matter relating to God, Jesaq Christ, the Bible, or the Book of Common Prayer, intended to wound the feelings of mankind or to excite contempt and hatred against the church by law established, or to promote immorality. Sweet
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A kind of white money, (val-ue Sd.,) coined by Henry V. in those parts of France which were then subject to England; forbidden to be current in that realm by 2 Hen. VI. c. 9. wharton
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In old law and practice. White; plain; smooth; blank
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A space left unfilled in a writ-ten document, In which one or more words or marks are to be inserted to complete the sense. Angle v. Insurance Co., 92 U. S. 337, 23 L. Ed. 556
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An ancient ten-ure of the law of Scotland, the duty payable being trifling, as a penny or a pepper-corn, etc., lf required; similar to free and common socage
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white rent; a rent reserved, payable in silver
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In old English law. A corn-monger; meal-man-or corn-chandler; a bladler, or engrosser of corn* or grain. Blount
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In Louisiana, a paper signed at the bottom by him who intends to bind hlmself, give acquittance, or compromise, at the discretion of the person whom he intrusts with such blanc seign, giving him power to fill it with what he may think proper, according to agreement Musson v. U. S. Bank, 6 Mart O. S. (La.) 718
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A person who gets his liv-ing by frequenting race-courses and places where games of chance are played, getting the best odds, and giving the least he can, but uot necessarily cheating. That is not indictable either by statute or nt common law. Barnett v. Allen, 3 Hurt A N. 379
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In old English law. Growing erops of grain of any kind. Spelman. All manner of annual grain. Cowell. Harvested graln. Bract. 217b; Reg. orig. 94b, 95
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In old Engllsh law. Rents reserved in work, grnin, provisions, or baser money, in contradistinction to thosc which were reserved in white money or sil-ver, which were termed “white rents," (reditus albi,) or blanch farms. Tomlins; whishaw
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A Rubvassal, who held ward of the king’s vassal
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1. In one of its ortgi-nal meanings, this term denoted a tribute paid by English dwellers, along the Scottlsh border to influential chieftains of Scotland, as a condition of securing immunity from raids of marauders and border thieves
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A closed. wagon or van in which prisoners are carried to and from the jail, or between the court and the jail
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In English law. Heath fowl, in contradistinction to red game, as grouse
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A list of persons marked ont for special avoidance, antagonism, or en-mity on the part of those who prepare the
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AP. The head-dress worn by the judge in pronouncing the sentence of death. It is part of the Judlclal full dress, and is worn by the judges on occasions of especial state, wharton
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A name given collectively to the body of laws, statutes, and rules in force in various southern states prlor to 1865, which regulated the lnstitu-tlon of slavery, and pnrtlcularly those for-bidding their reception nt public Inns and on public conveyances. Clvll Rights Cases, 109 U. S. 3, 3 Sup. Ct. 18, 27 L. Ed. 835
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A book of the highest authority in ad-miralty matters, generally sui,posed to have been compiled during the reign of Edward
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The name of an ancient book kept in the English exchequer, containing a collec-tion of treaties, conventions, charters, etc
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The day which is added every fourth year to the month of February
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