A witness testifies on “be-half” of the party who calls him, notwith-standing his evidence proves to be adverse to that party’s case. Richereon v. Stern-burg, 65 111. 274. See, further, 12 Q. B. 693; 18 Q. B. 512
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Prior to; preceding. In the presence of; under the official purview of; as in a magistrate’s Jurat, “before me per-sonally appeared.” etc
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A land measure used in the Blast Indies. In Beugal it is equal to about a third part of an acre
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A service which certain tenants were anciently bound to perform, as to reap thelr landlord's corn at harvest Said by whishaw to be still in existence in some parts of England. Blount; Cowell; Whishaw
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In English law. A crier or messenger of court, who summons men to appear and answer therein. Cowell
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The jurisdiction of a bedel, as a bailiwick is the jurisdiction of a bailiff. Co. Litt. 234b; Cowell
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To support, sustain, or carry; to give rise to, or to produce, something else as an Incident or auxiliary
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An animal; a domestic animal; a quadruped, such as may be used for food or in labor or for sport
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In English ecclesiastical law. An inferior parish officer, who is chosen b.v the vestry, and whose business is to attend the vestry, to give notice of its meetings, to execute Its orders, to attend upon inquests, and to assist the constables, wharton
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Instruments for weighing goods and merchandise
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A light-house, or sea-mark, formerly used to alarm the country, in case of the approach of an enemy, but now used for tlie guidance of ships at sea, by night, as well as hy day
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Money paid for the main-tenance of a beacon or signal-light
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A species of creek or stream common in Louisiana and Texas. An out-let from a swamp, pond, or lagoon, to a river, or the sen. See Surgett v. Lnpice, 8 IIow. 48, 70, 12 I* Ed. 982.
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This term, in its ordinary sig-nification, when applied to a place on tlde
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A house of prostitu-tion; a brothel. A house or dwelling maln-tatned for the convenience and resort of per-sons desiring unlawful sexual connection. Davis v. State, 2 Tex. App. 427; State v. Port-er, 88 Ark. 638; People v. Buchanan, 1 Idaho, 689
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In old Engllsh law. Bailiff. This term is used in the laws of the colony of New Plymouth, Mass., A. D. 1670, 1671. Bur-rlll
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Any unlawful beating, or other wrongful physical violence or con-stralnt, inflicted on a human being without his consent 2 Bish. Crim. Law, $ 71; Good-rum v. State, 60 Ga. 511; Razor v. Kinsey, 55 IU. App. 614; Lamb v. State, 67 Md. 524, 10 Atl. 200, 298; Hunt v. People, 53 111. App. 112; Perkins v. Stein, 94 Ky. 433, 22 S. W. 649, 20 L. R. A. 861. And see Beat
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In Louisiana. A marine term used to denote a bottom of sand, stone, or rock mixed together and rising towards the surface of the water; an elevation of the bed of a river under the surface of the water, since it is rising towards it; sometimes, how-ever, used to denote the same elevation of the bank when it has risen above the surface of the water, or is as high as the land on the outside of the bank. In this latter seuse it is synonymous with “alluvion.” It means, in common-law language, land formed by ac-cretion. Morgan v. Livingston, 6 Mart. (O. S.) (La.) Ill; Holliugsworth v. Chaffe, 33 Iat. Ann. 551; New orleans v. Morris. 3 woods, 117, Fed. Cas. No. 10,183; Leonard v. Baton Rouge, 39 La. Ann. 275, 4 South. 243
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In old English law. A form of trlal anciently used In mlli-tary cases, arising in the court of chlvalry and honor, in appeals of felony, in criminal cases, and in the obsolete real actlon called a “writ of action." The question at issue was decided by the result of a personal corn-bat between the parties, or, in the case of a writ of right, between their champions
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The chief of the French bar in its various centres, who presides in the councll of discipline. Arg. Fr. Merc. Law, 546
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In old Engllsh law. Battel; the trial by combat or duellum
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In English Iaw. A military order of knighthood, instituted by Richard II. The order was new-Iy regulated hy notifications in the London Gazette of 25th May, 1847, and 16th August, 1850. wharton
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