In Eng-llsh law. Boards of commissioners appoint-ed and authorized for the regulation and ap-pointment of pilots, each board having juris-diction within a prescribed district
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A very singular and odious kind of tenure mentioned by the old writers, “Wilhelmus Hop ye short tenet di-midiam virgatam terra per servitium cus-todiendi sex damiscllas, seil. merctrices ad usum domini regis” wharton
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A particular oflicer serving on board a ship during the course of a voyage, and having the charge of the helm and the ship’s route; or a person taken on board at any particular place for the purpose of con-ducting a ship through a river, road, or channel, or from or into a port People v. Francisco, 10 Abb. Prac. (N. Y.) 32; State v. Turner, 34 or. 173, 55 Pac. 92; Chapman v. Jackson, 9 Rich. Law (S. C.) 212; State v. Jones, 16 Fla. 306
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The navigation of a vessel by a pilot; the duty of a pilot. The charge or compensation allowed for piloting a vessel
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Plunder; the forcible taking of private property by an Invading or con-quering army from the enemy’s subjects. Amerlcan Ins. Co. v. Bryan, 26 wend. (N. Y.) 573, 37 Am. Dec. 278
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A frame erected on a pillar, and made with holes and movable boards, through whlch the heads and hands of crim-inals were put
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In the ancient forest laws. An arrow which had a round knob a llttle above the head, to hinder it from going far into the mark. Cowell
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To pilfer, in the plain and popular sense, means to steal. To charge another wlth pilfering is to charge him with stealing, and is slander. Becket v. Sterrett, 4 Blackf. (Ind.) 499
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Lat. In the clvll law. A pledge or pawn; a delivery of a thing to a •creditor, as security for a debt. Also a thing delivered to a creditor as security for a debt
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In. old English law. That side of coined money which was called “pile,” be
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Lat. In Roman law. Thls was the name of one of the legis actiones. It was employed only In certain particular kinds of pecunlary cases, and con-sisted in that the creditor, without prellmi-nary suit and without the co-operation of the magistrate, by reciting a prescribed formula, -took an article of property from the debtor to be treated as a pledge or security.. The proceeding bears a marked analogy to dis-tress at common law. Mackeld. Rom. Law, § 208; Gaius, bk. 4, 88 26-29
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Lat. In the civil law. The contract of pledge; and also the obliga-tlon of such contract
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Lat. In the civil law. An action of pledge, or founded on a pledge, which was either directa, for the debtor, after payment of the debt, or con-traria, for the creditor. Heinecc. Elem. lib. 8. tit 13, §1 824-826
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A structure extending from the solid land out into the water of a river, lake, harhor, etc., to afford convenient passage for persons and property to and from vessels along the sides of the pler. Seabright v. Allgor, 69 N. J. Law, 641, 56 Atl. 287
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A thief who secretly steals money or other property from the per-son of another
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In Scotch law. Petty theft; stealing of trifles, punishable arbitrarily. Bell
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A narrow slip of land running Into a corner
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Money paid at fairs for breaking ground for bootlts
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An instrument by which locks are opened without a key
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Lat A pious fraud; a subterfuge or evasion considered morally justifiable on account of the ends sought to be promoted. Partlcularly applied to an evasion or disregard of the laws in the Interests of religion or religious institutions, such as circumventing the statutes of mortmain
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