In old records. A dam or head made to stop a water-course. Cowell
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A writ called by that name, founded on a custom in Normandy, that where a man in power claimed lands in the possession of an inferior, he petitioned the prince that it might be put Into his hands till the right was decided, whereupon he had this writ wharton
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In forest law. one of the four evidences or presumptions where-by a man was convicted of an intent to steal the king’s deer in the forest. This was when a man wns found at hls standing in the forest with a cross-bow or long-bow bent, ready to shoot at any deer, or else standing close by a tree with grey-hounds in a leash, ready to slip. Cowell; Manwood
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A wound inflicted by a thrust with a pointed weapon. State v. Cody, 18 or. 506, 23 Pac. 891; ward v. State, 56 Ga. 410; Ruby ▼. State, 7 Mo. 208
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As used to designate a certain portion of laud wlthln the limits of a city or
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In American law. one who settles on another’s land, particularly on public lands, without a title. See o’Donnell v. McIntyre, 16 Abb. N. C. (N. Y.) 84; Park-ersburg Industrial Co. v. Schultz, 43 W. Va. 470, 27 S. E. 255
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Not proceeding from the •true source; not genuine; counterfeited. “A spurious bank-bill may be a legitimate lm-pression from the genuine plate, but it must have the signatures of persons not the officers of the bank whence it purports to have issued, or else the names of fictitious persons. A spurlous bill, also, may be an Ulegitlmate im-pression from a genulne plate, or an lmpres-sion from a counterfeit plate, but it must have Buch signatures or names as we have Just indicated. A bill, therefore, may be both counterfeit and forged, or both counterfeit end spurious, but it cannot be both forged and spurious." Kirby v. State, 1 ohlo St 187
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Lat. In the civil law. A bastard; the offspring of promiscuous cohabl-tatlon
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In Scotch law. The taklng away or meddling with movables in another's possession, without the consent of the owner or authority of law. Bell
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A fountain of water; an Issue of water from the earth, or the basin of wa-ter at the place of Its issue, webster. A natural chasm in which water has collected, and from wbich it either is lost by percola-tion or rises In a defined channel. Furner v. Seabury, 135 N. Y. 60, 31 N. E. 1004; Blood-good v. Ayers, 108 N. Y. 405, 15 N. E. 433, 2 Am. SL Rep. 443; Proprietors of Mills v. Braintree water Supply Co., 149 Mass. 478, 21 N. E. 761, 4 L. R. A. 272
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Lat in Roman law. A largess, dole, or present; a pecuniary dona-tlon; an official perquisite;, something over and above the ordinary fee allowed by law. Inst. 4, 6, 24
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A surety; one who makes a promise or gives security for another, partic-ularly a godfather in baptlsm.
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Lat in the civil law. An engagement or undertaking; particularly such as was made in the form of an answer to a formal Interrogatory by the other party. Calvin
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In International law. Agreements or engagements made by certain public officers (as generals or admirals in time of war) in behalf of tbeir governments, either withont authority or in excess of the authority under which they purport to be made, and which therefore require an express or tacit ratification
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Lat. A spoiler or de-stroyer. It is a maxim of law, hearing chiefly on evidence, but also upon the value generally of the thing destroyed, that every-thlng most to his disadvantage is to be pre* sunted against the destroyer, (spoliator
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Lat in the civil and common law. A thing violently or unlawfully taken from another
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Dividing a single cause of action, claim, or demand into two or more parts, and brlng-lng suit for one of such parts only, intending to reserve the rest for a separate action. The plaintiff who does this is bound by his first judgment, and can recover no more. 2 Black, Judgm. S 734.
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In Enclisb coclcsias-tioal law. An injury done by one clerk or incumbent to another, in taking the fruits of his benefice without any right to them, but under a pretended title. 3 Bl. Comm. 90, 91
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These are in-flammable liquids produced by distillation, and forming an article of commerce. See Blankenship v. State, 93 Ga. 814, 21 S. E. 130; State v. Munger, 15 Vt 293; Allred v. State, 89 Ala. 112, 8 South. 56; Clifford ▼. State, 29 wis. 329
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