In old English law. A writ which issued for apprehending a person who had taken the king's prest money to serve in the wars, and then hid himself in order to avoid goiug
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In old English law. To let or demise at a fixed rent. Particularly used with reference to the public domain or crown lands; as where a license was granted to inclose land in a forest with a low hedge and a ditch, under a yearly rent, or where an encroachment, originally a purpresture, was allowed to remain on the fixing and payment of a suitable compensation to the public for its maintenance
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To accuse or charge with an offense. Arrectati, accused or suspected per-sons
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ln Spanish law. The contract of letting and hiring an estate or land, (beredad.) white, Recop. b. 2, tit. 14, c. 1
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The whole body of Jurors sum-moned to attend a court, as they are arrayed or arranged on the panel. Daue, Abr. Index; 1 Chit. Crim. Law, 536; Com. Dig. “Challenge," B. Durrah v. State, 44 Miss. 789
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r ARREARAGES. Money unpaid at the due time, as rent behind; the remainder due after payment of a part of an account; money in the hands of an account-ing party. Cowell; Hollingsworth v. w’illis, 64 Miss. 152, 8 South. 170; wiggin v. Knights of Pythias (C. C.) 31 Fed. 122; Condit v. Neighbor, 13 N. J. Law, 92
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In old French law. An officer employed to superintend the loading of vessels, and the safe stowage of the cargo. 1 Pet Adm. Append. XXV
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In Spanish law. The donation which the husbnnd makes to his wife, by rea-son or on account of marriage, and in consideration of the dote, or portion, which he receives from her. Miller v. Dunn, 62 Mo. 219; Cutter v. waddiugham, 22 Mo. 254
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In criminal practice. Calling tbe defendant to the bar of the court, to answer the accusation contained in the indictment
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In English law. An assistant to the clerk of assise
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In the civil law. Earnest; earnest-money ; evidence of a completed bargain. Used of a contract of marriage, as well as any other. Spelled, also, Arrha, Arrte. Calvin
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A word formerly used for a grocer. 1 Vent. 142
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A measurer or surveyor of land. Cowell; Spelman
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Anything that a man wears for hls defense, or takes in hls hands, or uses in his anger, to cast at or strike at another. Co. Litt 161b, 162a; State v. Buzzard, 4 Ark. 18
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The armed forces of a nation in-tended for military service on lnnd
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A suspending or cessation of hostilities between belligerent nations or forces for a considerable time
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In English law. A device depicted on the (now imagi-nary) shield of one of the nobility, of which gentry is the lowest degree. The criterion of nobility is the bearing of arms, or armorial bearings, received from ancestry
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An armor-bearer; an esquire. A title of dignity belonging to gen-tlemen authorized to bear arms. CowelL
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An ancient mode of pun-ishment, which was to carry a saddle at the back as a token of subjection. Spelman
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In the civU law. Armed force. Dig. 43, 16, 3; Fleta, llb. 4, c. 4
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A vessel is “armed” when she is fitted with a full armament for fighting purposes. She may be equipped for warlike purposes, without being “armed.” By “arm-ed” it is ordinarily meant that she has cannon, but lf she had a fighting crew, muskets, pistols, powder, shot, cutlasses, and boarding appliances, she might well be said to be equipped for warlike purposes, though not anhed. 2 Hurl. & C. 537; Murray v. The Charming Betsy, 2 Cranch, 121, 2 L. Ed. 208
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A portion of the sea projetting inland, in which the tide ebbs and flows. 5 Coke, 107
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Lat Arms; weapons, offensive and defensive.; armor; arms or cognizances of families
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