Lat Things of gen-eral knowledge and concern; matters transacted before certain public officers. Calvin
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A form of sum-mary proceeding formerly in use in the high court of admiralty, in England, In whlch the parties stated their respective cases briefly, and supported their statements by affidavit 2 Dod. Adm. 174, 184 ; 1 Hagg. Adm. 1, note
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ZTGHT, or ACRE. A camp or field fight; a sort of duel, or judicial combat, anciently fought by slngie combatants, En-glisb and Scotch, between the frontlers of the two kingdoms with sword and lance. Called “campfight," and the combatants “cham-piqns,” from the open field that was the stage of trial. CowelL
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Under a grant of a right of way across the plaintiff's lot of land, the grantee has not a rlght to enter at oue place, go partly across, and then come out at another place on the same side of the lot Corn-stock v. Van Deusen, 5 Plck. (Mass.) 1G3. See Brown v. Meady, 10 Me. 391, 25 Am. Dec. 248
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Released; absolved; purged of an accusation; judicially discbarg-ed from accusation; released from debt, etc. Includes both clvll and criminal prosecutions. Dolloway v. Turrill, 26 wend. (N. Y.) 383, 390
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In contracts. A release, absolution, or discharge from an obligation, liability, or engagement
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A jury verdict that a criminal defendant is not guilty, or the finding of a judge that the evidence is insufficient to support a conviction. In contracts. A written discharge, freeing someone from an obligation to pay money or perform a duty.
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To release, absolve, or dis-charge one from an obligation or a liability; or to legally certify the lnnocence of one charged with crime. Dolloway v. Turrill, 26 wend. (N. T.) 383, 400
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In French law, Certain goods pay higher export duties when exported to a foreign country than when they are destined for another French port. In order to prevent fraud, the administration compels the shipper of goods sent from one. French port to another to give security that such goods shall not be sent to a foreign country. The certificate which proves the* receipt of the security is called “acquit d caution* Argles, Fr. Merc. Law, 543
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Coming to an intestate in any other way than by gift, devise, or descent from a parent or the ancestor of a parent In re Miller’s WIU, 2 Lea (Tenn.) 54
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The act of becoming the owner of certain property; the act by which one acquires or procures the property in anything. Used also of the thlng ac-quired
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A writ of justices, formerly lying for the surety agninst a creditor, who refuses to acquit him after
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In the law of contracts and of descents; to become the owner of proper-ty; to make property one’s own. wulzen v. San Francisco, 101 CaL 15, 35 Pac. 353, 40 Am. SL Rep. 17
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To give an implied con-sent to a transaction, to the accrual of a right, or to any act, by one’s mere silence, or without express assent or acknowledgment Matthews v. Murchison (C. C.) 17 Fed. 760; Cass County v. Plotner, 149 Ind. 116, 48 N. E. 635; Scott ▼. Jackson, 89 Cal. 258, 26 Pac. 898
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Acquiescence is where a person who knows that he is entitled to im-peach a transaction or enforce a right neg-lects to do so for such a length of time that, under the circumstances of the case, tbe other party may fairly Infer that he has waived or abandoned his. right. Scott v. Jackson, 89 Cal. 258, 26 Pac. 898; Lowndes v. wicks, 69 Conn. 15, 36 Atl. 1072; Norfolk A W. R. Co. v. Perdue, 40 W. Va. 442, 21 S. E. 755; Pence v. Langdon, 99 U. 8. 578, 25 L Ed. 420
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An estate acquired newly, or by purchase. 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 56
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In the civil law. Property which has been acquired by purchase^ gift, or otherwise than by succession. Immovable property which has been acquired otherwise than by succession. Merl. Repert
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In conveyane-lng. The act by whlch a party who has exe-cuted an instrument of conveyance as grantor goes before a competent officer or court, and declares or acknowledges the same as hls genuine and voluntary act and deed. The certificate of the officer on such Instrument that it has been so acknowledged. Rogers v. Pell, 154 N. T. 518, 49 N. E. 75; Strong v. United States (D. C.), 34 Fed. 17; Burbank v. Ellis, 7 Neb. 156
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An inferior mlnistrant or servant in the ceremonies of the church, whose duties are to follow and wait upon the priests and deacons, etc
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In old English law. A measure of corn, conjectured to have been the same with our quarter, or eight bushels, Cowell
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To own, avow, or admit; to confess; to recognize one’s acts, and assume the responsibility therefor
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In Mexican law. A ditch, channel, or canal, through whlch water, diverted from its natural course, is conducted, for use in irrigation or other purposes
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The levelers in the reign of Hen. I., who acknowledged no head or superior. Leges H. 1; Cowell. Also certain ancient heretics, who appeared about the be-ginnlng of the sixth century, and asserted that there was but one substance in Christ, and one nature, wharton; Gibbon, Rom. Bmp. ch. 47
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