Category: Black’s Law Dictionary (2nd edition)

In feudal law. A duty required from some customary tenants, tocar-ry goods in a wagon or upon loaded horses Source: Black's Law […]

A medium, a mean proportion Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In old English law. This term was applied to working cattle, such as horses, oxen. etc Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed […]

A certain quantity of oats paid by a tenant to his landlord as rent, or in lieu of some other duties Source: […]

L. Fr. To have Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

L. Fr. Chance; hazard Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Average; the loss Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Profits, or proceeds. This word seems to have been construed only in reference to wills, aud in them it means the corpus […]

In French law. The guaranty of a hill of exchauge; so called because usually placed at the foot or bottom (aval) of […]

In fendal law. The right of marriage, which the' lord or guardian in chivalry had of disposing of his infant ward in […]

This phrase, among mercantile men, is a term well un-derstood to be1 anything which can readily be converted into money; but it […]

Aiding; attendant on; ancillary, (q. v.) As an auxiliary bill in equity, an auxiliary receiver. See Buckley v. Harrison, 10 Misc. Rep. […]

In feudal and old English law. Aid; compulsory aid, hence a tax or tribute; a kind of tribute paid by the vas-sal […]

L. Fr. Another Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

L. Fr. At another time Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

The political independence of a nation; the right (and* condition) of self-government Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

The dissection of a dead body for the puri>ose of inquiring into the cause of death. Pub. St. Mass. 1882, p. 1288. […]

The handwriting of any one Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In medical jurispru-dence, this term is applied to actions or conduct of an individual apparently occur-ring without will, purpose, or reasoned intention […]

In Spanish colonial law. An order emanating from some superior tribunal, promulgated in the name and by the authority of the sovereign. […]

The name of an unlim-lted monarchical government A government at the will of one man, (called an "auto-crat,”) unchecked by constitutional restrictions […]

Citations to statutes, precedents, judicial declsious, and text-books of the law, made on the argument of ques-ions of law or the trial […]

In contracts. The lawful delegation of power by one person to an-other Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In tlxe civll law. An original instrument or writing; the original of a will or other instrument, as distinguished from a copy. […]

one who produces, by his own intellectual labor applied to the materials of his composition, an arrangement or compilation new in itself. […]