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In old pleading. An advantage. Co. Ent. 484; Townsh. Pl. 50

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Adul-terous bastards are’ those produced by an unlawful connection between two persons, who, at the time when the child was con-ceived, were, either of them or both, con-nected by marriage with some other person. Civil Code La. art 182.

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Adultery is the voluntary sexual intercourse of a married person with a i>erson other than the -offender’s husband or wife. Clvll Code Cal. 8,93; 1 pish. Mar. & Div. 8 706; Cook;v. State, ,11, Ga. 53

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Traders act-ing as a corporation, without a charter, and paying a fine annually s/or permission to ex-ercise their usurped privileges.; Smith, wealth Nat. b. 1, c. 10. ‘

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A ‘fine aneiently im-‘ posed as a punishment for the commission of adultery

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Let Jn the civil

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Begotten in an adulter-ous intercourse. In t^e. Roman, and canon law, adulterine bastards )vere distinguished from such as were the issue ot two unmar-ried persons, and the.fpruicr were treated with more severity, not being..allowed, the status of natural, children,,, and’ being, in-eligible to holy orders

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In the civil law. An adulteress; a woman guilty of adultery. Dig. 48, 5, 4, pr.; Id. 48. 5, 15, 8

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The act of corrupt-ing or debasing. The term is generally np-piied to the act of mixing up with food or drink intended to be sold other matters of an inferior quality, and usually of a more or less deleterious quality. Grosvenor v. Dnffy, 121 Mich. 220, 80 N. W. 19; Com. v. IIufnal, 185 Pa. 376. 39 Atl. 1052; People V. West, 44 Hun (N. ¥.) 102

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In the civil law. A male infant who has attained the age of four-teen ; a female infant who has attained the age of twelve. Dom. Liv. Prel. tit 2, | 2, n. 8

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Lot. one who corrupts; one who seduces another man’s wife. Adulter solidorur/i. A corruptor of metals; a counterfeiter. Calvin

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Side judges. Assist-ants or advisers of the regular magistrates, or appointed as their substitutes in certain cases. Calvin

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In Roman law. An accessory party to a promise, who received the same promise as his principal did, and conld equally receive and exact payment; or he only stipulated for a part of that for which the principal stipulated, and then his rights were coextensive with the amount of his own stipulation. Sandars, Just Inst (5th Ed.) 348

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®. Slaves who served the master of the soil, who were an-nexed to the land, and passed wlth it when it was conveyed. Calvin

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In the civil law. Add-ed, annexed, or bound by or in writing; en-rolled. registered; united, Joined, annexed, bound to, generally. Servus colon# adscrip-tus, a slave annexed to an estate as a culti-vator. Dig. 19, 2, 54, 2. Fundus adscrip-tux, an estate hound, to, or burdened with a duty. Cod. 11, 2, 3

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In the civil law. The adoption of one who was impubes; that is, lf a male, under fourteen years of age; if a female, under twelve. Dig. 1, 7, 17, 1

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bat. In the civil law. Ascendants. Dig. 23, 2, 68; Cod. 5, 5. 6

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In old European law. To undertake, declare, or promise solemnly; to pledge; to pledge one’s self to mnke oath. Spelman

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Sea-weed, between high and low wnter-mnrk, which lias not been deposlt-ed on tbe shore, nnd which during flood-tide is moved by each rising and receding wave, is adrift, although the bottom of the mass may touch the beach. Anthony v. Gifford, 2 Allen (Ma88.) 549

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Payment. Blount

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To set right, satisfy, or make amends

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Lat Adoptive. Applied both to the parent adopting, and the chlld adopted. Inst. 2, 13, 4; Id. 3, 1, 10-14

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In the civil and Scotch law. A guarantor, surety, or caution-er; a peculiar species of fidejussor; one who adds hls own promise to the promise given hy the principal debtor, whence the name

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The act of one who takes another’s child into his own family, treating hlm as hls own, and giving hlm alL the rights and duties of hls own child. A ju-rldical act creating between two persons certaln relations, purely civil, of paternity and fillation. 6 Demol. § 1

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An act of legislation which comes into operation within a limited area upon being adopted, in manner pre-scribed therein, by the inhabitants of that area

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