Sound understanding; the re-verse of insanity, (q. v
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A kind of punishment among the Greeks; inflicted by binding the male-factor fast to a piece of wood. Enc. LendJ
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Lat in feudal law. A redemption by villeins, of tlieir blood or tenure, in order to become freemen
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Lat in the dvil and old Engllsh law. Blood; consanguinity
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In old English law. A. payment due to the lord of the manor of Rodley, tn the county of Gloucester, for lib-erty granted to the tenants to dig sand for their common use. Cowell
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In the original sense of the word, a “sanction” is a penalty or punish-ment provided as a means of enforcing obedience to a law. In jurisprudence,.a law is
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In old English law. A consecrated place which had certain privi-leges annexed to it, and to which offenders were accustomed to resort for refuge, because they could not be arrested there, nor the laws be executed
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IS. Lat in old English law. of sound mind. Fleta, lib. 3, c. 7, § L
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Lat in the civil law. That part of a law by which a penalty was or-dalned against those who should violate it Inst 2» 1,10
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The word “same" does not always mean “identical,” not different or other. It frequently means of the bind or species, not the specific thing. Crapo v. Brown, 40 Iowa, 487, 493
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A specimen; a small quantity of any commodity, presented for Inspection or examination as evidence of the quality of the whole; as a sample of cloth or of wheat
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A person who, without any particular relation to a ship in distress, prof-fers useful service, and gives it as a volun-teer adventurer, withont any pre-existing covenant that connected him with the duty of employing himself for the preservation of that ship. The Clara, 23 wall. 16. 23 L. Ed. 150; The Dumper, 129 Fed. 99, 63 C. C. A. 600; Central Stockyard Co. v. Mears, 89 App. Dlv. 452, 85 N. Y. Supp. 795
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L Lat A safe pledge; called, also, “certus plegius” a sure pledge. Bract fol. 160b
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Lat Saving; excepting; without prejudice to. Salvo me et Karedibus meia, except me and my heirs. Salvo jure eufuslibet, withont prejudice to the rights of any one
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In maritime law. A compensation allowed to persons by whose assist-ance a ship or its cargo lias been saved, in whole or in part, from Impending danger, or recovered from actual loss, In cases of shipwreck, derelict, or recapture. 3 Kent, Comm. 245. Cope v. Vallette Dry-Dock Co., 119 U. S. 625, 7 Sup. Ct. 336, 30 L. Ed. 501; The Rita, 62 Fed. 763, 10 C. C. A. 629 ; The Lyman M. Lnw (D. C.) 122 Fed. 822; The Blackwall, 10 wall. 11, 19 L. Ed. 870; The Spokane (D. C.) 67 Fed. 256
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A gold coin stamped by Henry V. in France, after his conquests there, whereon the arms of England and France were stamped quarterly. CowelL
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This expression has a definite meaning, namely, a retailer of cigars, liquors, etc. Cahill v. Campbell, 105 Mass. 40
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A custom in the city, of London called “granage,” for-merly payable to the lord mayor, etc., for salt brought to the port of London, belng the twentieth part wharton
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An lnferior and local court of record having jurisdiction in personal ac-tions where the debt or damage sought to be recovered does not exceed £50, if the cause of action arise within the hundred of Sal-ford. St. 31 & 32 Vlct. c. 130; 2 Exch. Dlv. 346
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