A form of government where the power is divided between the nobles and the people
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Earnest. Used in Yorkshire in the phrase “Arles-penny.” Cowell. In Scot-land it has the same signification. Bell
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A mediaeval term for a class of agricultural owners of small allodial farms, which they cultivated in connection with larger farms belonging to their lords, paying rent and service for the latter, and
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A government in which a class of men rules supreme
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In feudal law. A fine for not setting out to join* the army in obedi-ence to the summons of the king
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An argument arising from the inconvenience w’hich the proposed construction of the law tvould create.
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In pleading. In-direct ; inferential. Steph. Pl. 179
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In arguing; in the course of the argument. A statement or observa-tlon made by a judge as a matter of argu-ment or Illustration, but not directly bearing upon the case at bar, or only incidentally involved in it, is said (in the reports) to be made arguendo, or, in the abbreviated form, arg
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In rhetoric and logic, an inference drawn from premises, the truth of which is indisputable, or at least highly probable
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An old French coin, an-swerlng nearly to the English shilling. Spelman
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In the Roman law, a money lender or broker; a dealer in money; a banker. Argentarium, the instrument of the loan, slmllar to the modern word “bond” or “note.”
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A money porter in the Engllsh exchequer, who carries the money from the lower to the upper ex-chequer to be examined and tested. Spel-man
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Lat. To rent; to let out at a certain rent. Cowell. Arentatio. A rentlng
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In ancient Greek law. A lawyer or chief judge of the Areopagus in capita*! matters in Athens; a tribunal so called after a hill or slight eminence, in a street of that city dedicated to Mars, where the court was held in which those judges were wont to sit. wharton
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A farmer or renter; in some provinces of Russia, one who farms the public rents or revenues; a “crown arenda-tor" is one who rents an estate belonging to the crown
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In the civil law. A sand-pit. Dig. 7, 1, 13. 5
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An Inclosed yard or opening in a house; an open place adjoining a house. 1 Chit Pr. 176
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In Spanish law. Sandy beaches; or grounds on the banks of rivers, white, Recop. b. 2, tit. 1, c. 6
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Spirituous or dls-tilled liquors. Sarlls v. U. S., 152 U. S. 570, 14 Sup. Ct. 720, 38 L. Ed. 556; U. S. v. Ellis (D. C.) 51 Fed. 808; State v. Townley, 18 N. J. Law, 311. This phrase, in a statute, does not include alcohol, which is not a liquor of auy kind. State v. Martin, 34 Ark. 340
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In old English law. An in-ceudiary; a house burner
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