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wines drawn from the lees. Cowell Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A political party. The term arose tn England, in 1S18, when the popular leaders, Hunt Cartwright, and oth-ers, sought to obtain a […]

An engine of tortnre anciently nsed in tbe inquisitorial method of examin-ing persons charged with crime, the office of whlch was to […]

A rent of the full value of the tenement, or near It. 2 Bl. Comm. 43 Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed […]

In Scotch law. Ransom; correspondlng to Saxon “weregild,” a pecun-lary composition for an offense. Skene; Jacoh Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed […]

In the legal polity of the Sallans and Rlpuarlans and other Germanic peoples, this name was given to the judges or assessors […]

In French law. The right of repurchase which, in English and American law, the vendor may reserve-to hlmself. It is also called […]

L. Fr. To redeem; to repurchase, (or bny back.) Kelham Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A tribe, people, or nation, be-longing or supposed to belong to the same stock or llneage. “Race, color, or.previous conditlon of servitude.” […]

An artificial canal dug in the earth; a channel cut In the ground, wilder v. De Cou, 26 Mlnn. 17, 1 N. […]

Lat. How long; how far; until. In old conveyances it is used as a word of limitation. 10 Coke, 41 Source: Black's […]

Lat in whatever manner Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A money ver dict the amount of which is fixed hy the following process: Each Juror writes down the sum he wishes […]

Of how many kinds; how many fold. A term of frequent occurrence in Sheppard’s Touchstone Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A proportional part or share, the proportional part of a demand or liabll-ity, falling upon each of those who are col lectlvely […]

1. The production to a conrt or judge of the exact language of a statute, precedent, or other authority, in support of […]

when a’committee, board of directors, meeting of shareholders, legis) a-tlve or other body of persons cannot nct un-less a certaln number nt […]

In old Scotch law. A twentieth part of the movable estate of a person dying, which was due to the bishop of […]

whlch see. A direction to the reader to look to another part of tbe hook, or to another book, there named, for […]

(Since the attachments.) one of the oldest books in the Scotch law. So called from the two first words of the volume. […]

That he recover The ordinary form of judgments for the plaintiff in actions at law. 1 Archb. Pr. K. B. 225; 1 […]

That lf it happen. words by which a condition might formerly be created in a deed. Litt. | 330 Source: Black's Law […]

That he permit to abate. In old practice. A writ, in the, nature of a w’rlt of right, which lay to abate […]

That he do abate. The name of a judgment upon an in-dictment for a nuisance, that the defendant abate such nuisance Source: […]

That parti-tion be made. The uame of the judgment in a suit for partition, directing that a partition be effected Source: Black's […]