Any person who keeps a shop or building where medicines are corn-pounded or prepared according to prescriptions of physicians, or where medicines ure sold. Act Cong. July 13, 1866, c. 1S4, $ 9, 14 Stat. 119; woodward v. Ball, 6 Car. & P. 577; westmoreland v. Bragg, 2 Hill (S. C.) 414; Com. v. Fuller, 2 walk. (Pa.) 550
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In the civil law. Certifi-cates of the inferior judge from whom a cause is removed, directed to the superior. Dig. 49, 6. See Apostles
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A messenger; an ambassador, legate, or nuncio. Spelman
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In clvll and old Engllsh law. An apostate; a deserter from the faith; one who has renounced the Christian faith. Cod. 1, 7; Reg. orig. 71b
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In English admiralty practice. A term borrowed from the civil law, denoting brief dismissory letters granted to a party who appeals from an Inferior to a su-perior court, embodying a statement of tbe case and a declaration that the record will be transmitted
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In medical jurisprudence. The failure of consciousness aud suspension of voluntary motion from suspension of the functions of the cerebrum
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In English law. The total renunciatlon of Christianity, by embracing either a false religion or no religion at all. This offense can only take place in such as have once professed the Christian religion. 4 Bl. Comm. 43; 4 Steph. Comm. 231
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In ecclesiastical law. one who answers for another. An officer whose duty was to carry to the emperor mes-sages relating to ecclesiastical matters, and to take back his answer to the petitioners. An officer who gave advice on questions of ecclesiastical law. An ambassador or legate of a pope or bishop. Spelman
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A civil law term sig-nlfylng an inventory or enumeration of things in one’s possession. Calvin
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Lat. In the civil law. A writing acknowledging payments; acquit-tance. It differs front acceptilation in this: that acceptilation Imports a complete dis-charge of the former obligation whether payment be made or not; apocha, discharge only upon payment being made. Calvin
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In old com-mercial law. Bills of lading
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Extremely fine points, or subtleties of litigation. Nearly equivalent to the modem phrase “sharp prac-tice.” “It is unconscionable in a defendant to take advantage of the apices litigandi, to turn a plaintiff around nnd make him pay costs when his demand is just.” Per Lord Mansfield, in 3 Burr. 1243
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In medical jurisprudence, want of breath; difficulty in breathing; partial or temporary suspension of resplra-tion; specifically, such difficulty of resplra-tion' resulting from over-oxygeuation of the blood, and in this distinguished from “as-phyxia,” which is a condition resulting from a deficiency of oxygen in the blood due to suffocation or any serious interference with normal respiration. The two terms were formerly (but improperly) used synonymous-iy
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In medical jurisprudence. Loss of the faculty or power of articulate speech; a condition In which the patient, while retaining intelligence and understond-ing and with the organs of speech unimpalr-ed, is unable to utter articulate words, or unable to vocalize the particular word which is in his mind and which he wishes to use, or utters words different from those he be-lieves himself to be speaking, or (in "sensory aphasia”) is unable to understand spoken or written language. Tbe seat of tbe disease is in the brain, but it is not a form of insanity
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In medical jurisprudence. Loss of the power of articulate speech in consequence of morbld conditions of some of the vocal organs. It may be incomplete, in which case the patient can whisper. It is to be distinguished from congenital dumbness, and from temporary loss of voice through extreme hoarseness or minor affections of the vocal cords, as also from aphasia, the latter heing a disease of the brain without lmpairment of the organs of speech
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The summit or highest point of anything; the top; e. g., in mining law, “apex of a vein." See Larkin v. Upton, 144 U. S. 19, 12 Sup. Ct. 614, 36 L. Ed. 330; Stevens v. williams, 23 Fed. Cas. 40; Dug-gan v. Davey, 4 Dak. 110. 26 N. W. 887
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A part of a house oc-cupied by a person, whlle the rest is occupied by auother, or others. As to the meaning of thls term, see 7 Man. & G. 95; 6 Mod. 214; McMillan v. Solomon, 42 Ala. 356, 94 Am. Dec. 654; Commonwealth v. Estabrook, 10 Pick, (Mass.) 293; McLellan v. Dalton, 10 Mass. 190; People v. St. Clair, 38 Cal. 137
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In old French law. A provision of lands or feudal superlorlties as-signed by the kings of France for the maln-tenance of their younger sons. An allow-ance assigned to a prince of the reigning house for his proper maintenance out of the public treasury. 1 Hallam, Mid. Ages, pp. ii, 88; wharton.
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In old English law. A man who endeavors to discharge himself of the crime of which he is accused, by re-torting the charge on the accuser. He differs from an approver in this: that the latter does not charge the accuser, but others. Jacob
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In early feudal law. A confidential vassal. A term applied to the followers or dependents of the ancient Ger-man chiefs, and of the kings and counts of the Franks. Burrlll
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