In old Engllsh practlce. Solemnlty or formality of attachments. The issulng of attachments in a certaln formal and regular order. Bract fols. 439, 440; 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 480
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A rite or ceremony; the formallty establlshed by law to render a con-tract, agreement, or other act valld
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Formal; in regular form; wlth all the forms of a proceedlng. As to solemn “Form," see Pbobate. As to solemn “oath” and “war,” see the nouns
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Lat. In the dvil law. Solemn forms of laws; forms of forensic proceedings and of trans-acting legal acts, one of the sources of the unwrltten law of Rome. Butl. Hor. Jur. 47
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Slngle; lndlvldual; separate; the opposlte of joint; as a sole tenant.
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Compensation. Damages allowed for injury to the feelings
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A note glven by a broker, who has effected a sale of merchandise, to the buyer, stating the fact of sale, quantity, prlce, etc. Story, Ag. | 28; Saladin v. Mlt-cheli, 45 IU. 83
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Lat in the clvll law. A rent paid for the ground, where a person bnllt on the publlc land. A ground rent. Spelman; Calvln
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In Spanlsh law. Laud; the demesue, wlth a house, situate in a strong or fortified place, white, New Recop. b. 1, tlt 5, c. 3, 8 2
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That perlod of tlme which begins at sunrise and ends at sunset Co. Litt 135a
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Lands and tenements which were not heid by knight-service, nor by grand serjeanty, nor by petit, hut by simple servlces; heing, as it were, lands en-franchlsed hy the king or his predecessors from thelr anclent demesne. Their tenants were sokemans. wharton
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In Engllsh law. Those who held thelr lands in socage. 2 Bl. Comm. 100
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Thls term means some-thlng more than “traveling,” and applies to a temporary, as contradistinguished from a permanent, residence. Henry v. Ball, 1 wheat 5, 4 L. Ed. 2L
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The lord's rent gather-er in the soca. Cowell
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The surface, or surface-covering of the land, not including mlnerals beneath it or grass or plants growing upon it But in a wider (and more usual) sense, the term is equivalent to “land,” and includes all that is below, upon, or above the surface
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Fr. Let it be; ' be it so. A term used in several Law-French phrases employ-ed in English law, particularly as expressive of the will or assent of the sovereign in form-al communications with parliament or with private suitors
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In criminal law. The crlme of unnatural sexual connectlon; so named from its prevalence in Sodom. See Genesis, xix
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A custom of grinding com at the lord’s mill. Cowell. Bond-socome is where the tenants are bound to it Blount
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