A phrase used in pleading as the technical expression in iay-lng a scienter, (q. v

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See Mobtgage

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A fence or an lnclosure of twigs, set in a stream to catch fish. Pub. St. Mass, p. 1297; Treat v. Chipman, 35 Me. 38

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A measure of heaviness or ponderosity; and in a metaphorical sense influence, effectiveness, or power to influence judgment or conduct

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In old European law. The judicial combat, or duel; the trial by battel

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In English law. A duty or toll paid for weighing merchandise. It is called “tronagc” for weighing wool at the klng’s beam, or “pesage” for weighing other avoirdupois goods. 2 Chit. Com. Law, 16

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Sax. In old English law. A customary service which tenants paid to their lords, in cutting down their corn, or doing other harvest duties; as lf a covenant to reap for the lord at the time of hls bidding or commanding. Cowell

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A period of seven consecutive days of time; and, in some uses, the period beginning with Sunday and ending with Snt-urday. See Leach v. Burr, 188 U. S. 510, 23 Sup. CL 393, 47 L. Ed. 567; Ronkendorff v. Taylor, 4 Pet 361, 7 L. Ed. 882; Evans v. Job, 8 Nev. 324; Bird v. Burgsteiner, 100 Ga. 486, 28 S. E. 219; Steinle v. Bell, 12 Abb. Prac. N. S. (N. Y.) 175; Russell v. Croy, 164 Mo. 69, 63 S. W. 849; Medland v. Linton, 60 Neb. 249, 82 N. W. 866

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“Natural wear and tear” means deterioration or depreciation in value by ordinary and reasonable use of the subject-matter. Green v. Kelly, 20 N. J. Law, 548

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All material objects, capable of satisfying human wants, desires, or tastes, having a value in exchange, and upon which human labor has been expended; i. e., which have, by such labor, been either reclaimed from nature, extracted or gathered from the earth or sea, manufactured from raw materials, improved, adapted, or cultivated

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An lnstrument used in fight-ing; an instrument of offensive or defen-sive combat. The term is chiefly used, in law, in the statutes prohibiting the cnrrying of “concealed" or “deadly” weapons. See those titles

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Sax. A wood; the woody part of a country

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In old English law. The robbing of a dead man in his grave

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In a legislative body, the “committee on ways and means” is a committee appointed to Inquire into and consider the methods and sources for raising revenue, and to propose means for providing the funds needed by the government

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The English highway acts provide that In every parish forming part of a highway district there shall an-nuaily be elected one or more waywardens. The waywardens so elected, and the justices for the county residing within the district, form the highway board for the district. Each waywarden also represents his parish in regard to the levying of the highway rates, and in questions arising concerning the liability of his parish to repairs, etc. Sweet

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A crop of grain sown hy a tenant for a term certain, during hls tenancy, but which wiil not ripen until after the expiration of his lease; to this, by custom in some places, the tenant is entitled

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Implements of husband-ry. 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, c. 5, p. 268

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A duty anciently paid twice a year towards the charge of wax candles in churches. Spelman

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A writing in which is set down the names of passengers who are car-ried in a public conveyance, or the description of goods sent with a common carrier by land, wharton

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In the language of brokers, adding to the capital stock of a corporation hy the Issue of new stock, with* out increasing the real value represented by the capital

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In old records. Such goods as, after a wreck, swim or float on the waves. Jacob

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A natural stream of water fed from permanent or periodical nat-ural sources and usually flowlng in a particular direction in a defined channel, hav-ing a bed and hanks or sides, and usually discharging itself Into some other stream or body of water. Los Angeles v. Pomeroy, 124 Cal. 597, 57 Pac. 587; Chamberlain v. Hem-lngway, 63 Conn. 1, 27 Atl. 239, 38 Am. SL Rep. 330; Ribordy v. Murray, 177 IU. 134, 52 N. E. 325; Rait v. Furrow, 74 Kan. 101, 85 Pac. 934, 6 L. R. A. (N. S.) 157; Dlckin-son v. worcester, 7 Alien (Mass.) 19; Earl v. De Hart, 12 N. J. Eq. 284, 72 Am. Dec. 393; Barkley v. wilcox, 86 N. Y. 140, 40 Am. Rep. 519; Simmons v. wtnters, 21 or. 35, 27 Pac. 7, 28 Am. St Rep. 727

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A mark indicating the highest point to which water, rises, or the lowest polnt to whlch it sinks

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An officer in many cities and towns, whose dnty it is to watch during the night and take care of the property of the inhabitants

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As designating a commodity or a subject of ownership, this term has the same meaning in law as in common speech; hut in another sense, and especially in the plural, it may designate a body of water, such as a river, a lake, or an ocean, or an aggregate of such bodies of water, as in the phrases “foreign waters,” “waters of the United States," and the like

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