A separate and dlstlnct part of an instrument or writing comprising two oi more particulars; one of several things presented as connected or forming a whole. Carter v. Railroad Co., 126 N. C. 437, 36 S. E. 14; wetzell v. Dinsmore, 4 Daly (N. Y.) 195
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In English law. A clerk bound to serve in the office of a solicitor in consideration of being instructed in the profession. This is the general acceptation of the term; but it is said to be equal-ly applicable to other trades and professions. Reg. v. Reeve, 4 Q. B. 212
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In Scotch law. The offense committed by one who aids and assists the commission of a crime, hut who is not the prlncipal or chief actor in its actual commission. An accessary. A principal in tbe second degree. Paters. Comp
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The trial of money by heating it after it was coined
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words used in a technical sense; words scientifically fit to carry the sense assigned them
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Burning in the hand. The punishment by burning or branding the left thumb of lay offenders who claimed and were allowed the benefit of clergy, so as to distinguish them in case they made a second claim of clergy. 5 Coke, 51; 4 Bl. Comm. 367
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Arson, at common law, is the act of unlawfully and maliciously burning the house of another man. 4 Steph. Comm. 99; 2 Ituss. Crimes, 896; Steph. Crim. Dig. 298
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Burnt and weighed. A term formerly applied to money tested or assayed by fire and by weighing
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Store-houses for arms; dock-yards, magazines, and other military stores
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In the civil law. The adoption of a person who was of full age or sui juris. 1 Browne, Civil & Adm. Law, 119; Dig. 1, 7, 5; Inst. 1, 11, 3. Relnders v. Kop-pelmann, 68 Mo. 497, 3^ Am. Rep. 802
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In France, one of the subdivisions of a department
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In marine insurance. The arrival of a vessel means an arrival for pur-poses of business, requiring an entry aud clearance and stay at the port so long as to require some of the acts connected with busi-ness, and not merely touching at a port for advices, or to ascertain the state of the mar-ket, or Iieiug driven in by an adverse wind and sailing again as soou as it changes. Gronstadt v. witthoff (D. C.) 15 Fed. 265; Dalgleish v. Brooke, 15 East, 295; Kenyon v. Tucker, 17 R. I. 529, 23 Atl. 61; Meigs v. In-surance Co., 2 Cush. (Mass.) 439; Toler v. white, 1 ware, 280, 24 Fed. Cas. 3; Harrison v. Vose, 9 How. 384, 13 L. Ed. 179
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T5 reach or come to a particular place of destination by traveling to-wards lt. Thompson v. United States, 1 Brock. 411, Fed. Cas. No. 407
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In feudal law. A sec-ond summons to Join the lord, addressed to those who had neglected the first. A summons of the inferiors or vassals of the lord. Spelman
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In the civil law. Earnest; money given to bind a bargain. Calvin
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In Eng-lish and Scotch law. Indefinite services for-merly demandable from tenants, but prohibited by statute, (20 Geo. II. c. 50, §§ 21, 22.) Holthouse; Ersk. Inst. 2, 6, 42
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Id old English law. A writ against the goods of aliens found within this kingdom, iu rec-ompense of goods taken from a denizen in a foreign country, after denial of restitution. Reg. orig. 129. The ancient civilians called it “clarigatio" but by the moderns it is term-ed “reprisalia.
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Charged; charging. The convening a person charged with a crime be-fore a judge. Staundef. I’. C. 45. It is used sometimes for imputed or laid unto: as no folly may be arretted to one under age. Cowell
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In Scotch law. one who sues out and obtains an arrestment of hls debtor’s goods or movable obligations. Ersk. Inst. 3, 6, 1
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In Scotch law. Secur-ing a criminal's person till trial, or that of a debtor till he give security judicio sisti. The order of a judge, by which he who is debtor in a movable obligation to the arrester’s debt-or is prohibited to make payment or delivery till the debt due to the arrester be paid or secured. Ersk. Inst. 3, 6, 2
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In Scotch law. The person in whose hands the movables of another, or a debt due to another, are arrested by the
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In old English law. A writ which lay for a person whose cattle or goods were taken by another, who during a contest was likely to make away with them, aud who had not the ability to render satisfaction. Reg. orig. 126
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