A term used in Louisiana, de-rived from the French. A book in which bankers, merchants, and traders write a statement of ali they owe and all that is due them; a balance-sheet. See Dauphin v. Sou-lie, 3 Mart (N. S.) 446
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In Eng-lish law. An obsolete writ addressed to a corporation for the carrying of weights to such a haven, there to weigh the wool an-ciently licensed for transportation. Reg. orig. 270
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An obstinate person, or one that is wedded to an opinion, in matters of re-llgion, etc
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In the civil law. A man who was twice married; one who at differ-ent times and successively has married two wives. 4 Inst. 88. One who has two wives living, one who marries a widow
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The criminal offense of wlll-fully and knowingly contracting a second marriage (or going through the form of a second marriage) while the first marriage, to the knowledge of the offender, is still sub-sistlng aud undissolved. Com. v. McNerny, 10 Phila. (Pa.) 207; Gise v. Com., 81 Pa. 430; Scoggins v. State, 32 Ark. 213; Cannon v. U. S., 116 U. S. 55, 6 Sup. Ct 287, 29 L. Ed. 561
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This term, in a statute, signifies, not duration of time, but a period for the happening of an event; once in every two years. People v. Tremain, 9 Hun (N. Y.) 576; People v. Kilbourn, 68 N. Y. 479
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or BIGATA. A cart or chariot drawn with two horses, coupled side to side: but it is said to be properly a cart with two wheels, sometimes drawn by one horse; and
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Germ. In European marl-time law. A document furnished by the builder of a vessel, containing a register of her admeasurement, particularizing the length, breadth, and dimensions of every part of the ship. It sometimes also contains the terms of agreement between the party for whose account the ship is built, and the ship-builder. It has been termed in English the “grand bill of salein French, “contrat de construction ou de la vente d’un vaisseau" and corresponds in a great degree with the English, French, and American “register," (q. v.,) being an equally essential document to the lawful ownership of vessels. Jac. Sea Laws, 12, 13, and note. In the Danish law, it is used to denote the contract of bottomry
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Sp. In Spanish law. Goods; property of every description, including real as well as personal property; all things (not being persons) which may serve for the uses of man. Larkin v. U. S., 14 Fed. Cas. 1154
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Inclination; bent; prepossession; a preconceived opinion; a predisposition to decide a cause or an issue in a certain way, which does not leave the mind perfectly open to conviction. Maddox v. State, 32 Ga. 587, 79 Am. Dec. 307; Pierson v. State, 18 Tex. App. 558; Hinkle v. State, 94 Ga. 595, 21 S. E. 601
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or BIDALL. An invitation of friends to drink ale at the house of some poor man, who hopes thereby to be relieved by charitable contribution. It is something like “house-warming,” i. e., a visit of friends
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O. Eng. Expended. Be-fore the Britons and Saxons had introduced the general use of money, they traded chiefly by exchange of wares, wharton
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Beyond the limits of the klngdom of Great Britain and Ireland; out-side the United States; out of the state
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As a measure or indication of distance, this word has the efTect of excluding the two termini. Revere ▼. Leonard, 1 Mass. 93; State v. Godfrey, 12 Me. 366. See Morris & E. R. Co. v. Central R. Co., 31 N. J. Law, 212
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This term is properly used to distinguish a sale of liquors to be drunk for the pleasure of drinking, from liquors to be drunk in obedience to a physician’s ad-vice. Com. v. Mandeville, 142 Mass. 469, 8 N. E. 327
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An improvement put upon an estate whlch enhances its value more than mere repairs. The term is also applied to denote the additional value which an estate acquires in consequence of some public improvement, ns laying out or widening a street, etc. French v. New York, 16
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Bestiality is the carnal knowledge and connection against the order of nature by man or woman in any manner with a beast. Code Ga. 1882, { 4354
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Mutual promise of marriage; the plighting of troth; a mutual promise or contract between a man and woman competent to make it, to marry at’ a future time
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The great-grand-father, proavus. 1 Bl. Comm. 186
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Primary evidence, as distinguished from secondary; original, as distinguished from substitutionary; the best and highest evidence of which the na-ture of the case is susceptible. A written in-struroent is Itself always regarded as the primary or best possible evidence of its ex
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Y, or BURY. A villa or seat of habitation of a nobleman; a dwelling or mansion house; a sanctuary
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A method of anthropometry, used chiefly for the identifi-cation of criminals and other persons, con-sisting of the taking and recording of a sys-tem of numerous, minute, and uniform measurements of various parts of the human body, absolutely and in relation to each oth-er, the facial, cranial, and other angles, aud of any eccentricities or abnormalities no-ticed in the individual
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In Saxon.law. Burning; the crime of house burning, now called “arson." Cowell; Blount
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