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To think of an act beforehand; to contrive and design; to plot or lay plans for the executlon of a purpose. See […]

A clergyman of a superior order, as an archblshop or a bishop, having authority over the lower clergy; a dignitary of the […]

Fr. In French law. A prelimlnary deduction; particularly, the portion or share which one member of a firm is entitled to take […]

See Nega-tive Pregnant Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A forejudgment; bias; preconceived opinion. A leaning towards one side of a cause for some reason other than a conviction of its […]

Possessing or accorded a priority, advantage, or privilege. Generally denoting a prior or superior claim or right of payment as agninst another […]

In medical Jurispru-dence. The state of a female who has with-ln her ovary or womb a fecundated germ, whlch gradually becomes developed […]

A term used in English law to designate a new issue of shares of stock in a company, which, to facilitate the […]

An Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

To bring before; to prosecute; to try; to proceed with. Thus, pre-ferring an indictment signifies prosecuting or trying an indictment Source: Black's […]

The act of an lnsolveut debtor who, in distributing his property or in assigning it for the benefit of his credlt-ors, pays […]

one who, by settlement upon the public land, or hy cultiva-tion of a nortion of it, has obtained the right to purchase […]

In French law. The name given to the public functionary who is churg-ed in chief with the administration of the laws, in […]

This term, in its natural and ordinary signification, is under-stood to be something greater or superior in power aud influence to others, […]

In international law. The right of pre-emption is the right of a nation to detain the merchandise of strangers passing through her […]

A real or predial servitude is a charge laid on an estate for the use and utility of another estate belonging to […]

In logic. That which is said concerning the subject in a logical prop-osition; as, “The law is the perfection of common sense." […]

A contract or engage-ment made by a person, which is of such a nature as to preclude him from lawfully entering into […]

one who goes or bas gone before; the correlative of “successor.” Applied to a body politlc or corporate, in the same sense […]

In Scotch practice. To examine beforehand. Arkley, 232 Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Proclamation Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Lat. In pleading. The commencement of a repllcatlon to a plea in bar, by whlch the plalntlff "says that, by reason of […]

In Scotch practice. Preliminary examination. The investigation of a criminal case, preliminary to commit-ting the accused for trial. 2 Alls. Crim. Pr. […]

Another form of the name of the written instructions to the clerk of court; also spelled “praecipe,” (q. v Source: Black's Law […]

Precipltins are formations in the blood of an animal induced by repeated injectlons Into its veins of the blood-serum of an animal […]