A building in which goods and merchandise are sold at retail, or where mechanics work, and sometimes keep their products for sale. See State v. Morgan, 98 N. C. 641, 3 S. E. 927; State v. o'Connell, 26 Ind. 267; State v. Sprague, 149 Mo. 409, 50 S. W. 901
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In English law. A county. So called because every county or shire is divided and parted by certain metes and bounds from another. Co. Litt. 50a
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In medical jurisprudence. A sudden and severe depression of the vltal functions, particularly of the nerves and the circulation, due to the nervous exhaustion following trauma, surgical operatlon, or sud-den and violent emotion, resulting (if not in death) in more or less prolonged prostration; it is spoken of as being either physical or psychical, accordlng as it is caused by dis-turbance of the bodily powers and functions or of the mind. See Maynard v. oregon R. Co., 43 or. 63, 72 Pac. 590
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Ships in general; ships or vessels of any kind Intended for navigation. Relating to ships; as, shipping interest, shipping affairs, shipping business, shipping con-cerus. Putting ou board a ship or vessel, or receiving on board a ship or vessel, webster; worcester
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The demolition or shat-tering of a vessel, caused by her driving ashore or on rocks and shoals in the mid-seas, or by the violence of winds and waves in tempests. 2 Arn. Ins. p. 734
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Thls term, in common marl-time and commercial usnge, means “placed on board of a vessel for the purchaser or consignee, to be transported at his risk." Fisher v. Mlnot, 10 Gray (Mass.) 262
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1. The owner of goods who lntrusts them on board a vessel for delivery abroad, hy charter-party or otherwise
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Formerly, a jocose term for a bank-note greatly depredated in value; also for paper money of a denomlna
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Libby, 26 Fed. Cas. 928; U. S. v. winn, 28 Fed. Cas. 735.—Ship's hnsband. In mari-time law. A person appointed by the several part-owners of a ship, and usually one of their number, to manage the concerns of the ship for the common benefit. Generally understood to be the general agent of the owners in regard to all the affairs of the ship in the home port. Story, Ag. $ 35; 3 Kent. Comm. 151; web-ster v. The Andes, 18 Ohio. 187: Muldon v. whitlock. 1 Cow. (N. Y.) 307, 13 Am. Dec. 533; Gillespie v. winberg, 4 Daly (N. Y.) 322; Mitchell v. Chambers, 43 Mich. 150. 5 N. W. 57, 38 Am. Rep. 167.—Ship’s papers. The papers which must be carriea by a vessel on a voyage, in order to furnish evidence of her national character, the nature and deatina-tion of the cargo, and of compliance with the navigation laws. The ship's papers are of two sorts: Those required by the law of a particular country; such as the certificate of registry, license, charter-party, bills of lading and. of health, required by the law of England to be on board all British ships. Those required by the law of nations to be on board neutral, ships, to vindicate their title to that character; these are the pasa port, sea-brief, or sea-letter, proofs of property, the muster-roll or rdle d’equipage, the charter-party, the bills of lading and invoices. the log-book or ship’s journal, and the bill of health. 1 Marsh. Ins. c. 9, J 6
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Changlng; varylng; pass-lng from one person to another by substltu-tlon. “Shlftlng the burden of proof" is transferrlng it from one party to the other, or from one slde of the case to the other, when he upon whom it rested orlglnally has made out a prima facie case or defense by evldence, of such a character that it then becomes incumbent upon the other to rebut it by contradictory or defenslve evidence
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In English law. The name of an English coin, of the value of one-twentieth part of a pound. This denomina-tlon of money was also used in America, in colonial times, but was not everywhere of unlform value
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In the practice of the Engllsh hlgh court, when a vlew by a Jury is ordered, persons are named by the court to show the property to be vlewed, and are hence called “shewers.” There is usually a shewer on behalf of each party. Archb. Pr. 339, et seq
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In Engllsh law. To be qult of attachment in a court, in plalnts shewed and not avowed, obsolete
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The jurisdlction of a sherlff. Called, in modern law, “balllwlck." The office of a sherlff
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A word used by the authorities of the Roman Church, to specify contemptuously the technlcal parts of the law, as admlnistered by non-clerlcal lawyers, wharton
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The time of a man’s belng sheriff. Cowell. The term of a sher-HTs office
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RULE IN. "When the ancestor, by any gift or conveyance, tak-eth an estate of freehold, and in the same gift or conveyance an estate is limited, either mediately or immediately, to his heirs in fee or in tail, the ‘heirs’ are words of limitation of the estate, and not words of pur-chase.” 1 Coke, 104
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The body of the lordship of Caerdiff in South wales, excluding the members of it Powel, Hist, wales, 123
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A deed; so called from the parchment ft was written on
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A right Of sheep-walk is the eame thing as a fold-course, (q. v.) Elton, Commons, 44
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Small plots of past-ure, in England, often in the middle of the waste of a manor, of which the soil may or may not be in the lord, but the pasture is private property, and leased or sold as such. They principally occur in the northern counties, (Cooke, Inch Acts, 44,) and seem to be corporeal hereditaments, (Elton, Commons, 35.) although they are sometimes classed with rights of common, but erroneously, the right being an exclusive right of pasture. Sweet
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A service turned into money, which was paid in respect that an-ciently the tenants used to wash the lord’s sheep, wharton
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A riding, tithing, or divi-sion in the Isle of Man, where the whole island is divided into six sheadings, in each of which there is a coroner or chief consta-ble appointed hy a delivery of a rod at tbe Tinewald court or annual convention. King. Isle of Man, 7
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A wether more than a year old. Rex v. Birket, 4 Car. & P. 216
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