In old English law. A house-holder, or occupant of a house or hearth
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In Scotch law. Dam-ages awarded to the relative of a murdered person from the guilty party, who has not been convicted and punished. Paters. Comp
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A mutual agreement, assent, and consent between parties; also a witness or record
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A person who has been in-sured by some insurance company, or umler-writer, agaiust losses or perils mentioned in the policy of insurance. Brockway v. In-surunce Co. (C. C.) 29 Fed. 766; Sanford v. Insurance Co., 12 Cush. (Mass.) 548
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An insurer against certain perils and dangers; an underwriter; an in-demnifier
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The act or agreement of assuming or taking upon one’s self; the un* dertaking or adoption of a debt or obligation primarily resting upon another, as where the purchaser of real estate “assumes” a mortgage resting upon it, in which case he adopts the mortgage debt as his own and becomes personally liable for its payment Eggleston v. Morrison, 84 111. App. G31; Locke v. Hom-er, 131 Mass. 93, 41 Am. Rep. 199; Springer v. De wolf, 194 III. 218, 62 N. E. 542, 56 L. R. A. 465, 88 Am. St. Rep. 155; Lenz v. Railroad Co., Ill wis. 198, 86 N. W. 607
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To undertake; engage; promise. 1 Ld. Raym. 122; 4 Coke, 92. To take upon one’s self. Springer v. De wolf, 194 111. 218, 62 N. E. 542, 56 L. R. A. 465, 88 Am. St. Rep. 155t
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Lat He undertook; he promised. A promise or engagement by which one person assumes or undertakes to do some act or pay something to another. It may be either oral or in writing, but is not under seal. It is express if the promisor puts hls engagement in distinct and definite language; it is implied where the law infers a promise (though no formal one has pussed) from the conduct of the party or the clr-cumstances of the case
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To absolve; acquit; to eet free; to deliver from excommunication. SL 1 Hen. IV. c. 7; Cowell
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In Scotch law. To acquit the defendant in an action; to find a crirni-nal not guilty
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The act of a number of iiersons who unite or join together for some special purpose or business. The union of a company of persons for the transaction of designated affairs, or the attainment of some common object
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In French Law. In a socidtd en commandite an associd en nom is one who is liable for the engagements of the undertaking to the whole extent of his property. This expression arises from the fact that the names of the associds so liable figure in the firm-name or form part of the socidtd en nom collectif. Arg. Fr. Merc. Law, 546
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A code of feudal jurisprudence prepared by an as-sembly of barons and lords A. D. 1099, after the conquest of Jerusalem
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An officer in each of the English courts of common law, appointed by the chief judge of the court, and holding his office during good behavior, whose duties were to superintend the entry of causes, to attend the sittings of nisi prius, and there receive and enter verdicts, aud to draw, up the posteas and any orders of nisi prius. The associates are now officers of the Su-preme Court of Judicature, and are styled “Masters of the Supreme Court” wharton
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In the practice of the criminal courts of Scotland, the fifteen men who de-dde on the conviction or. acquittal of an ac-cused person are called the “assize," though lu popular language, nud even in statutes,, they are called the “jury.” wharton. See Assise
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Sessions of the justices or commissioners of assize. See Assise
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Rented or farmed out for a specified assise; that is, a payment of a certain assessed rent in money or provisions
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weregeld or compensation by a pecuniary mulct Coweli
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To help; aid; Buccor; lend countenance or encouragement to; particl-pate in as an auxiliary. People v. Hayne, 83 Cal. Ill, 23 Pac. 1, 7 L. R. A. 348, 17 Am. St. Rep. 211; Moss v. Peoples. 51 N. C. 142; Comitez v. Parkerson (C. C.) 50 Fed. 170
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A judge of the English court of general or quarter sessions in Middlesex. He differs from the other justices in being a barrister of ten years’ standing, and In heing salaried. St. 7 & 8 VicL c. 71; 22 & 23 Vlct. c. 4; Pritch. Quar. Sees. 31
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An assessor; juror; an oflicer who has the care and oversight of weights and measures
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In Scotch law. Jurors; the persons who formed that kind of court which in Scotland was called an “assise,” for the purpose of inquiring into and judging divers civil causes, such as perambulations, cognitions, molestations, purprestures, and other matters; like jurors in England. Holthouse
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