In Scotch law. A person who takes meat and drink from others by force or menaces, without paying for it Bell
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A tax of forty shillings an-ciently lald upon every knight’s fee. Cowell
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Lat in the civll law. HurtT ful; injurious; hindering; excusing or jusr tlfytng delay. Morbus sonticus is any illness pf so serlous a nature as to prevent a defendant from appearing in court and to give him a valid excuse. Calyln
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In ecclesiastical law, an officer of the ecclesiastical courts whose duty was to serve citations or process
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In French law. A demand served by a huissier, by which one narty calls upon another to do or not to do a
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Sleep-waIking. whether this condition is anything more than a co-operation of the voluntary muscles with the thoughts which occupy the mind during sleep is not settled by physiologists, whar-ton
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ETT’S CASE. A celebrated decision of the English king's bench, In 1771, (20 How. St. Tr. 1,) that slavery no longer existed in England in any form, and could uot for the future exist on English soil, and that any person brought Into England as a slave could not be thence removed except by the legal means applicable in the case of any free-born person
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A solvent person is one who is able to pay all his just debts in full out of hls own present means. See Dig. 50, 16, 114. And see Solvency
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Lat To pay; to comply with one’s engagement; to do what one has undertaken to do; to release one’s self from obllgation, as by payment of a debt. Calvin. —Solvers pcenas. To pay the penalty
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Lat. Paylng. An apt word of reserving a rent in old conveyances. Co. Litt 47a
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Lat. To be in a state of solvency; i. e., able to pay
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Fr. In French law. Ability to pay; solvency. Emerig. Tralte des Assur. c. 8, | 15
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Ability to pay; present ability to pay; ability to pay one’s debts out of one’s own present means. Marsh ir. Dunckel. 25 Hun (N. Y.) 169; osborne v. Smith (C. C.) 18 Fed. 130; Larkin v. Hap-good, 56 VL 601; Sterrett v. Third Nat Bank, 46 Hun (N. Y.) 26; Reid v. Lloyd, 52 Mo. App. 282
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Lat in civil law. Payment, satisfaction, or release; any species of discharge of an obligation accepted as satia-factory by the creditor. The term refers not so much to the counting out of money as to the substance of tbe obligation. Dig. 46, 3* 54; Id. 50, 16, 176
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In tbe oivil law. Loosed; freed from confinement; set at liberty. Dig. 50, 16, 48
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In old English law. Two plow-lands, and somewhat less than a half. Go. Litt. 5a
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Lat. In the civil law. A whole; an entire or undivided thing
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A coin equal to 13s. 4d. of the present standard. 4 Steph. Comm. 119n. originally the “solidus” was a gold coin of the Byzantine Empire, but in medieval times the terra was npplied to several varieties of coins, or as descriptive of a money of account, apd is supposed to be the root from which “shilling” is derived
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In Engllsh law. A legal practltloner in the court of chancery. The words “solicitor" nnd “attorney” are commonly used indiscriminately, although they are not precisely the same, an attorney belng a practitioner In the courts of common law, a solicitor a practitioner in the courts of eq1
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A term of civil-law origin, Blgnifylug that the right or interest spoken of is joint or common. A “solidary obliga-tion" corresponds to a “joint and several’’ obligation in the common law; that is, one fpr which several debtors are bound in such wise that each is liable for the entire amount, and not merely for his proportionate share. But in the civil law the term also iucludes the case where there are several creditors, as against a common debtor, each of whom is entitled to receive the entire debt and give an acquittance for It
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To solemnize, spoken of a marriage, means no more than to enter ln-to a marriage contract, wlth due publicatlon, before thlrd persons, for the purpose of glv-ing it notoriety and certalnty; whlch may be before any persons, relatives, frlends, or strangers, competent to testify to the facts. See Dyer v. Brannock, 66 Mo. 410, 27 Am. Rep. 359; Pearson v. IIowey, 11 N. J. Law, 19; Bowman v. Bowman, 24 111. App. 172
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Asking; enticing; ur-gent request Thus “solicitation of chasti-ty” is the asklng or urging a woman to surrender her chastlty. The word is also used in such phrases as “sollcltatlon to lar-ceny,” to bribery, etc
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