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An abol-ished writ which lay where two lords, in divers towns, had selgnlorles adjoining, for him who found hls waste by llttle […]

Rate; proportion; degree. Reason, or understanding. Also a cause, or giving judgment therein Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

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The confirmation of a previous act done either by the party hlm-self or hy another; conflrmatlon of a void-able act See Story, […]

Lnt. Confirmation, agreement, consent, approbation of a contract. Saltmarsh v. Cnndia, 51 N. H. 76 Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Lat. In the civll law. To hold a thlng ratified; to ratify or confirm it Dig. 46, 8, 12, 1 Source: Black's […]

Proportional or relative value, measure, or degree; the proportion or stand-ard by which quantity or value is adjusted. Thus, the rate ot […]

The act of scraping, scratch-lng, or shaving the surface of a written in-strument, for the purpose of removlng cer-tain letters or words […]

In old English law. A rase; a measure of onions, containing twenty flones, and each flonls twenty-five heads. Fleta, llb. 2, C. […]

In old Euglish law. A writ for taking away an heir holding in socage, of which there were two sorts: one when […]

Lat in old English law. Ravished. A technical word in old indictments. 2 East, 30 Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In French law and in Loulslana. A proceeding similar to hotchpot; the restoration to the succession of such property as the heir […]

In old English law. A rav-isher. Fleta, llb. 2, c. 52, § 12 Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In oriminal law. The unlawful carnal knowledge of a woman by a man forcibly and against her will. Code Ga. I 4349; […]

In criminal law. Plunder; pillage; robbery. In the civll law, raplna is defined as the forcible and violent taklng of another man's […]

In forest law. A sworn of fleer of the forest, whose office chiefly con-sists in three points: To walk daily through his […]

In international Uw. The Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Sp. A small collection of men or thelr dwellings; a hamlet. As used, however, in Mexico and in the Spanish law formerly […]

In the government survey of the United States, this term is used to de Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In law, this term is of ex actly equivalent import to “railroad.” See Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

To create. A use may be rais-ed; i. e., a use may be created. Also to in-fer; to create or bring to […]

A statute, so called, of justices assigned by Edward I. and his coun-cll, to go a circuit through all England, and to […]

A road or way on which iron or steel rails are laid for wheels to run on, for the conveyance of heavy […]

In French law. A term in-cluding the repairs made to a ship, and a fresh supply of furnlture and victuals, muni-tions, and […]

A kind of lottery in which several persons pay, in shares, the value of something put up as a stake, and then […]