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The proof or trial, by. chemical experiments, of the purity or fineness of met-als,—particularly of the precious metals, gold and silver Source: […]

Murder committed for hire, without provocation or cause of resentment given to the murderer by the’ person upon whom the crime is […]

An ancient custom In wells, by which a person accused of crime could dear himself by the oaths of three hundred men. […]

In old welsh law. An oath made by compurgators. Brown Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In English lnw. The offense committed in the forest, by pulling up the trees by tlie roots that are thickets and coverts […]

The removal of things from one place to another. The carrying away of goods; one of the circumstances requisite to constitute the […]

He carried away. Some-times used as a noun to denote a carrying away. An “asportavit of personal chattels.” 2 H. Bl. 4 […]

View; object; possibility. Im-plies the existence of alternatives. Used in the phrases “bill with a double aspect” and “contingency with a double […]

In medical jurisprudence. A morbid condition of swooning, Buffoca-tion, or suspended animation, resulting in death if uot relieved, produced by any serl-ous […]

To fix; to render certaiu or definite; to estimate and determine; to clear of doubt or obscurity. Brown v. Lyd-dy, 11 Hun, […]

In Roman law. A foreigner who had been registered and nat-uralized in the colony in which he resided. Cod. 11, 47 Source: […]

In Spanish law. As-cendants; ascending heirs; heirs in the as-cending line. Schm. Civil Law, 259 Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Passage upwards; the trans-mission of an estate from the ancestor to tbe heir in the ascending line. See 4 Kent. Comm. 393, […]

To go up; to pass up or np-wards; to go or pass in the ascending line. 4 Kent, Comm. 393, 397 Source: […]

Persons with whom one is related in the ascending line; one's parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, etc Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A feast or entertain-ment made at a funeral in the north of Eng-land; arvil bread is bread delivered to the poor at […]

These . words coutrast the relative position of two arsons. with a tacit reference to a different relationship between one of them […]

Technically; scien-tiflcally; using terms of art. A will or con-tract is described as “artificially” drawn if , it is couched in apt […]

An old English law term, signifying a day’s work in plowing Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

(or more com-monly in articulo mortis.) In the article of death; at the point of death Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed […]

Created by art, or by law; existing only hy force of or in con-templation of law Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed […]

Article by article; by distinct clauses or articles; hy separate propositions Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Lat Articles; items or heads. A term applied to some old English statutes, and occasionally to treatises Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd […]

1. A connected series of propositions; a system of rules. The subdi-visions of a document, code, book. etc. A specification of distinct […]

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