A rout is an unlawful assembly which has made a motion towards the execu-tion of the common purpose of the persons assembled. It is, therefore, between an un-lawful asembly and a riot. Steph. Crim. Dig. 41
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Fr. In old French and Canadian law. A free tenant of land on services exigible either in money or in kind. Steph. Lect 229. A free commoner; one who held of a superior, .but could have no inferior below him
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A circle divided from the center, like Arthur's round table, whence its supposed origin. In each compartment is a signature, so that the entire circle, when filled, exhibits a list, withont priority being given to any name. A common form of round-robin is simply to write the names in a circular form, wharton
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The roll of Winton. An exact survey of all England, made by Alfred,’ not unlike that of Domes-day; and it was so called because it was kept at winchester, among other records of the kingdom; but this roll time has destroy-ed. Ingulph. Hist. 516
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Fr. In old French and Canadian law. A free tenure without the privilege of nobility; the tenure of a free commoner
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Small boroughs in England, whlch prior to the reform act, 1832, returned one or more members to parliament
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A clause sometimes inserted in policies of marine insurance, to the efTect that “if, on a regular survey, the ship shall be declared unseaworthy by reason of being rotten or unsound,” the insurers shall be discharged. 1 Phil. Ins. § 849. See Steinmetz v. United States Ins. Co., 2 Serg. & R. (Pa.) 296
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Span. In Spanish law. oblit-erated. white, New Recop. ,b. 3, tit. 7, c. 5. I 2
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A term which in-cludes oxen, cows, steers, heifers, and such like horned animals. Cowell
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A list of persons who are to perform certain legal duties when called upon in -their turn. In military affairs it is a table or plan by which the duty of officers is reg-ulated. See Matthews v. Bowman, 25 Me. 167
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The document with which an abstract of title properly commen-ces is called the “root” of the title. Sweet
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Heathy ground, or ground full of ling; also watery-and moorish land. 1 Inst 6
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The fourth part of an acre in square measure, or one thousand two hundred and ten square yards
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A tract of land in the county of Kent, England, containing twenty-four thousand acres, governed by cer-tain ancient and equitable laws of sewers, composed by Henry de Bathe, a venerable judge in the reign of king Henry III.; from which laws all commissioners of sewers in England may receive light and direction. 3 Bl. Comm. 73, note t; 4 Inst 276
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The statute 23 & 24 Vict c. 134, providing a method for enjoying estates given upon
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This term, in a general sense, comprehends all the laws which pre-valled among the Romans, without regard to the time of their origin, inclnding the col-lections of Justinian
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The portable or movable apparatus and machinery of a rallroad, particularly such as moves on the road, viz., engines, cars, tenders, coaches, and trucks. See Beardsley v. Ontario Bank, 31 Barb. (N. Y.) 635; ohlo & M. R. Co. v. weber, 96 111. 448; Pittsburgh, etc., R. Co. v. Backus, 154 U. S. 421, 14 Sup. Ct. 1114, 38 L. Ed. 1031
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Lat Pilgrims that traveled to Rome on foot
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In English criminal law. An idle and disorderly person; a trickster; a wandering beggar; a vagrant or vagabond. 4 Bl. Comm. 169
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A schedule of parchment which may be turned up with the hand in the form of a pipe or tube. Jacob
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A commission from one judge to another requesting him to examine a wltness. See Letter
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Lat. In Roman law. I ask; I request. A precatory expresslon often used in wills. Dig. 30, 108, 13, 14
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