In French law. The fraud committed to obtain a pardon, title, or grant, by alleging facts contrary to truth

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one who suborns or pro-cures another to commlt any crime, particularly to commit perjury

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The process by which the attendance of a witness is required is called a “subpoena.” It is a writ or OFder directed to a person, and requiring his attendance at a particular time and place to testify as a wit-ness. It may also require him to bring with him any books, documents, or other things under his control which he is bound by law to produce in evidence. Code Civ. Proc. CaL | 1985. See Dishaw v. Wadleigh, 15 App. Div. 205, 44 N. Y. Supp. 207; Alexander ▼. Harrison, 2 Ind. App. 47, 28 N. E. 119; Bleecker v. Carroll, 2 Abb. Prac. (N. Y.) 82

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In criminal law. To procure another to commit perjury. Steph. Crim. Law, 74

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To ham-string by cut-ting the sinews of the legs and thighs

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In the dvil law. The answers of the prince to questions which had been put to him respecting some obscure or doubtful point of law

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To propound; as an advocate submits a proposition for the approval of the court

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when a person who holds a mortgage as security for a loan which he has made, procures a loan to himself from a third person, and pledges his mortgage as security, he effects what is called a “submort-gage.”

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A lease by a tenant to an* other person of a part of the premises held by him; an under-lease

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A yielding to authority. A citizen is bound to submit to the laws; a child to his parents

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The obligation of one or more persons to nct at the discretion or ac-cording to the judgment and will of others

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The thing iu con-troversy, or the matter spoken or written about

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The system which the feudal tenants introduced of granting smaller estates out of those whlch they held of thelr lord, to be held of themselves as inferior lords. As this system was proceed-lng downward ad infinitum, and depriving the lords of their feudal profits, it was en-tirely suppressed by the statute Quia Emp-tores, 18 Edw. I. c. 1., and Instead of it al-ienatlon in the modern sense was introduced, so that thenceforth the alienee held of the same chief lord and by the same services that hls alienor before him held. Brown

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In logic. That concerning which the affirmation in a proposition is made; the first word in a proposition

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Lat. In the civU law. To sell at public auction, which was done sub hasta, under a spear; to put or sell under the spear. Calvin

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Lat in the civil law. A sale by public auction, which was done under a spear, fixed up at the piace of sale as a public sign of it Calvin

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To divide a part into smaller parts; to separate into smaller divi-slons. As, where an estate is to be taken by some of the heirs per stirpes, it is divided and subdivided according to the number of takers in the nearest degree and those in the more remote degree respectively

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In Engllsh probate practice, to subduct a caveat is to withdraw it

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See Contbact

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Lat in old English law. A vassal; a dependent; any one under the power of another. Spelman

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An under-agent; a substl-tuted agent; an agent appointed by one who is himself an agent. 2 Kent, Comm. 633

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An inferior or subordt-nate ofiicer. An officer who exercises hls authority under the superintendence and control of a superior

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In old English lnw. An under-hniliff; n sheriff’s deputy. Fleta, llb. 2, c. 68, | 2

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Coppice-wood. 2 Inst. 642

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