A customary gift of corn, which, at every Christmas, the far* mers in some parts of England give to thelr smith for sharpening their plow-irons, har-row-tlnes, etc. Biount
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In Hindu law. The instrument of government or instruction; any book of instructions, particularly containing Dl-vine ordinances, wharton
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In the strict sense of the term, a “shareholder” is a person who has agreed to become a member of a corpora-tion or company, and with respect to whom all the required formalities have been gone through; e. g., signing of deed of settlement, registration, or the like. A shareholder by estoppel is a person who has acted and been treated as a shareholder, and consequently has the same liubilities as lf be were an or-dlnary shareholder. Lindl. Partn. 130. See Beal v. Essex Sav. Bank, 67 Fed. 816, 15 C
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A “sharp” clause in a mortgage or other security (or the whole instrument described as “sharp") is one which empowers the creditor to take prompt and summary ac-tion upon default in payment or breach of other conditions
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▲ portion of anythin,,, when a whole is divided into shares, they are not necessarily equal
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In English law. The stray-ing and escaping of cattle out of the lands of thelr owners into other uninclosed laud; an intercommoning of cattle. 2 H. B1. 416
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As used in statutes and similar Instruments, this word is generally im-perative or mandatory; but it may be con-strued as merely permissive or directory, (as equivalent to “may,”) to carry ont the legislative intention and in cases where no right or benefit to any one depends on its being taken iu the imperative sense, and where no public or private right is impaired by its interpretation in the other sense. Also, as against the government, “shall" is to be construed as “may,” unless a contrary intention is manifest. See wheeler v. Chl-cago, 24 111. 105, 76 Am. Dec. 736; People v. Chicago Sanitary Dist., 184 111. 597, 56 N. E. 953; Madison v. Daley (C. C.) 58 Fed. 753 ; Cairo & F. R. Co. v. Hecht, 95 U. S. 170, 24 L. Ed. 423
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Lat. The sixth (book) of the decretals; the sext, or sixth decretal. So called because append-ed, in the body of the canon law, to the five books of the decretals of Gregory IX.; it consists of a collection of supplementary de-cretals, and was published A. D. 1298. Butl. Hor. Jur. 172; 1 BL Comm. 82
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See Insanity; Pederasty; Sodomy
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In old records. An ancient measure of liquids, and of dry commodities ; a quarter or seam. Spelman
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Lands given to a church or religious house for maintenance of a sexton or sacristan, Cowell
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In Saxon law. The mid-die thanes, valued at 600s
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Lat. In Roman law. A sub-division of the as, containing two uneiae
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A fresh-water trench or little, river, encompassed with banks on both sides, to drain off surplus water lnto the sea. Cow-ell. Properly, a trench artificially mnde for the purpose of carrying water into the sea, (or a river or pond.) Crabb, Real Prop, | 113
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In ecelesi-astioal law. The second Sunday before Lent, being about the sixtieth day before Easter
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In pleading;. Separa-tion; division. The separation by defend-ants in their pleas; the adoption, by several defendants, of separate pleas, instead of joining in the same plea. Steph. Pl. 257
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Separate; Individual; inde* pendent. In this sense the word is distin-guished from “joint” Also exclusive; Individual ; appropriated. In this sense it is op-posed to “common.”
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A state of separation. An estate in severalty is one that is held, by a person in hls own right only, without any other person being joined or connected with him, in point of interest, during his estate therein. 2 BI. Comm. 179
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To separate, when two joint defendants separate in the action, each piead-ing separately his own plea and relying up-on a separate defense, they are said to sever
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Admitting of severance or separation, capable of being divided; ca-pable of being severed from other things to which it was joined, and yet maintaining a complete and independent existence
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A person who, for the purpose of acquiring a pre-emption right, has gone upon the land in question, and is actu-ally resident there. See Hume v. Gracy, 86 Tex. 671, 27 S. W. 684; Davis v. Young, 2 Dana (Ky.) 299; McIntyre v. Sherwood, 82 CaL 139, 22 Pac. 037
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