The name applied in England to the process of settling the ac-counts and' liquidating the assets of a part-nership or company, for the purpose of mak-ing distribution and dissolving the concern
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An opening made in the wall of a house to admit light and air, and to furnish a view or prospect The use of this word ih law is chiefly in connection with the doctrine of ancient lights and other rights of adjacent owners
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In England. 1. The stat-ute 32 Hen. Vlll. c. 1, passed in 1540, by which persons seised in fee-simple of lands holden in socage teuure were enabled to de-vise the same at their will and pleasure, except to bodies corporate; and those who held
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A stat-ute passed in the thirteenth year of the reign of Edward I., by which the old Saxon law of police was enforced, with many addition-al provisions. 2 Reeve, Eng. Law. 163 j Crabb, Hist Eng. Law, 189
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Proceeding from a conscious tnotion of the will; intending the result which actually comes to pass; designed; in* tentlonal; malicious
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Intentionally. In charg-lng certain offenses, it is required that they should be stated to be willfully done. Archb. Crim. Pl. 51, 58; Leach, 556
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A devise to B. and his children or issue, B. having no Issue at the time of the devise, gives him an estate tail; but. lf he have issue at the time, B. and hls children take joint estates for life. 6 Coke, 16b; Tudor, Lead. Cas. Real Prop. 542, 58L
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In Hindu law. The relation be*, tween a master or patron and hls freedman, and the relation between two persons who bad made a reciprocal testamentary contract, wharton
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In old English law. The overseer of a wood. Cowell
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Land in a state of nature, as dlstlngulshed from improved or cultl-vated land. Clark ▼. Phelps, 4 Cow. (N. Y.) 203
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The state or condition of heing a widow. An estate is sometimes settled upon a woman “during widowhood,’*' which is expressed in Latin, “durante viduitate”
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L. LaL In old European law. A mark or sign; a mark set up on land, to: denote an exclusive occupation, or to prohibit entry. Spelman
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Sax. A village, town, or district Hence, in composition, the territory over which a glven jurlsdiction extends. Thus, “baillwick” is the territorial jurisdiction of a bailiff or sheriff or constable. “Sheriffwick" was also used in the old books
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A man whose wlfe is dead, and wbo has not remarried
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A whore is a woman who practices unlawful commerce with men, partlcu-larly one who does so for hire; a harlot; a concubine; a prostitute. Sheehey v. Cokley, 43 lowa, 183, 22 Am. Rep. 236
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To sell by wholesale is to sell by large parcels, generally in original packages, and not by retail
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The feast of Pentecost, being the fiftieth day after Easter, and the first of the four cross-quarter days of the year, wharton
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In old English law. ▲ class of offenders who whitened stolen ox-hldes and horse-hides so that they could not be known and identified
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A mulct on certain lands in or near to the forest of
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A place in London be-tween the Temple nnd Blackfrlars, which was formerly a sanctuary, and therefore privileged from arrest wharton
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A fictitious name glven to a piece of land, in the Engllsh books, for purposes of illustration
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