Protection; assurance; ln-demnlficatlon. The term is usually applled to an obligation, pledge, mortgage, deposit, llen, etc., given by a debtor in order to make sure the paymeut or performance of hls
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To give security; to assure of payment, performance, or Indemnity; to guaranty or make certain the payment of a debt or discharge of an obligation, one “se-curee” hls creditor hy giving him a lien, mortgage, pledge, or other security, to be used in case the debtor fails to make payment See Pennell v. Rhodes, 9 Q. B. 114; Bx parte Reynolds, 52 Ark. 330, 12 8. W. 570; Foot v. webb, 59 Barb. (N. Y.) 52
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A creditor who holds some special pecuniary assurance of payment of his debt, such as a mortgage or lien
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Not spiritnal; not ecclesias-tlcal; relatlng to affairs of the present world
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Lat. In the civil and common law. According to. occurring In many phrases of familiar use, as follows
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A writ whlch lay for a dowress, or oue in wardship, to be free from suit of court CoweU
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Lat in Roman law. Purchasers at auction, or public sales
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In text-books, codes, statutes, ahd other juridical writings, the smallest dlstlnct and numbered subdivlstons are com-inonly called * “sections,” sometlmes “artl des,” and occasionally “paragraphs.”
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In Amerlcan land law. A divislon or parcel of land, on the government survey, comprising one square mile or 640 acres. Each “township” (six miles square) is divided hy straight lines into thirty-six sections, and these are again divided Into half-sections and quarter-sec-tions
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In old English law. Sult; at-lendance at court; the plaintiff's suit or fol-lowing, i. e., the witnesses whom he was re-quired, in tHe ancient practice, to bring with him and produce in court, for the purpose of confirming his claim, before the defend-ant was put to the necessity of answering the declaration. See 3 Bl. Comm. 295, 344; Bract, fol. 214a. A survival from thls proceedlng is seen in the formula still used at the end of declarations, “and therefore he brings hls suit," (et inde producit sectam
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Suitors of conrt who, among the Saxons, gave thelr judgment or verdict In civil suits upon the matter of fact and law. 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 22
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To conceal or hide away. Particularly, to put property out of the reach of credltors, either by corporally hiding lt, or putting the title in another’s name, or otherwise hindering creditors from levying on it or attaching ih Pearre v. Hawkins, 62 Tex. 437; Guile v. McNanny, 14 Minn. 522 (Gil. 391) 100 Am. Dec. 244 ; Sturz v. Fischer, 15 Misc. Rep. 410, 36 N. Y. Supp. 894
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“A religious sect is a body or number of persons united in tenets, hut con-stituting a distinct organization or party, by holding sentiments or doctrines different from those of other sects or people.” State v. Hallock, 16 Nev. 385
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Concealed; hidden; not made public; particularly, In law, kept from the knowledge or notice of persons liable to be affected by the act, transaction, deed, or other thlng spoken of
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The secretary of a corporatlon or assoclatlon is an officer charged with the direction and management of that part of the business of the company which is concerned with keeping the records, the official correspondence, with glvlng and receiving notices, countersigning documents, etc
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This term, as used in law, may denote elther sequence in point of tlme or inferiority or postponement in respect to rank, llen, order, or prlvilege
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In criminal law. Those per-sons who asslst, direct, and support other* engaged in fighting a duel
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Thls adjectlve, applied to a vessel, signlfles that she is properly con-structed, prepared, manned, equipped, and provided, for the voyage lntended. See Sea-wobtjiiness
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A want of remedy by dlstress. Litt. $ 218. See Rent, want of present fruit or profit, as in the case of the reversion wlthout rent or other service, except fealty. Co. Lltt. 151b, n. 5
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The name used by the Al-gonquin Indians for the shell beads (or wampum) which passed among the Indians as money, webster
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In marine insurance, A warranty of seaworthiness means that the vessel is competent to resist the
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In English law. An officer of the customs, whose duty it is to examine and search all ships outward bound, to ascertain whether they have any prohibit-ed or uncustomed goods on board, wharton. Jacob
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