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In the civil law. A condition intermediate between infancy and pu-berty, continuing in boys from the seventh to the fourteenth year of […]

In old English law. Supposed to be a corruption of the Saxon “wud-geld" (woodgeld,) a freedom from payment of money for taking […]

In Spanish law. People; all the inhabitants of any country or place, with-out distinction. A town, township, or muJ niclpality. white, New […]

Lat. In tbe civil law. Public law; that law which regards the state of the commonwealth. Inst 1, 1, 4 Source: Black's […]

Chastity; purity; continence Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Lat. of public right This term, as applied to a thiug or right, means that it is opcn to or exercisable by […]

In the civil law. The name of an actlon Introduced by the prtetor Publicius, the object of which was to recover a […]

Lat. In Roman law. A farmer of the customs; a publlcan. Calvln Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

1. The act of publtsh-lng anythlng or making it publlc; offering lt Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Pertaining to a state, nation, or whole community; proceeding from, relating to, or ahecting the whole body of peo-ple or an entire […]

In tbe civU law. A farmer of the public revenue; one -who held a lease of some property from the public treasury. […]

In medical jurisprudence. Alkaloldal products of the decomposition or putrefaction of albumlnous substances, as, in anlmal and vegetable tissues. These are sometimes […]

The age of fourteen In males and twelve in females, when they are held fit for, and capable of contracting, marriage, otherwise […]

In the law Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A method or sys-tem of alleviating or curing certaiu forms of disease, particularly diseases of the uervous system or such as are […]

In medical Jurisprudence. A frequent manlfestation of hysteria in women, in which the abdomen is inflated, simulating pregnancy; the patient aiding in […]

In medical Jurisprudence. A method of investigating the origin and cause of any given disease or morbid condition by examination of the […]

Carefulness, precaution, attentiveness, and good judgment, as applied to action or conduct That degree of care required by the exigencies or circumstances […]

A kind of service of tenure. Blount says it slgnifies an old-fashioned spur with one point only, whlch the tenant, hold-ing land […]

Klndred between two persons. Dig. 38, 16, 8 Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A person who iB substituted or deputed by another to represent him and act for hlm. particularly In some meeting or public […]

LaL In the civil law. A broker; one who negotiated or arranged the terms of a contract between two parties, as between […]

Immediate; nearest; next in order Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

The principal magistrate of a royal burgh in Scotland; also a governing oflicer of a university or college Source: Black's Law Dictionary […]

AL. In English law. An officer of the royal navy who had the charge of prisoners taken at sea, and some-times also […]