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An obsolete term for an enor-mous crime Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Relating or pertainlng to the body, as distlngulshed from the mlnd or soul or the emotions; materlal. substantive, havlng an objective existence, […]

A practitioner of medi-dne; a person duly authorized or licensed to treat diseases; one lawfully engaged in the practice of medicine, without […]

Any person who makes for sale photographs, ambrotypes, dagnerrotypes, or pictures, by the action of light Act Cong. July 13, 1866, J […]

A jailer Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A watch-tower, light-house, or sea-mark Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In medical jurisprudence. An inflammation of the velns, which may originate in septicaemia (bacterial blood-poisoning) or pyaemia (poisoning from pus), and is […]

A lawyer who is em* ployed in a small or mean business, or who carries on a disreputable business by unprln-clpled or […]

Small, minor, of less or incon-siderable Importance. The English form of “petit,” and sometimes used instead of that word in such compounds […]

Lat in Roman law. I request A common word hy whlch a fldeicommis-sum, or trust, was created in a will. Inst 2, […]

A stone weight Cowell Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

The cred-ltor at whose Instance an adjudication of bankruptcy is made agalnst a bankrupt Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A droitural ac-tion ; that is,, one in which the plaintiff seeks to establlsh and enforce, by an approprl-ate legal proceedlng, his […]

A written address, embodying an application or prayer from the persou or persons preferring it, to the power, body, or person to […]

one who presents a petition to a court, officer, or legislative body. In legal proceedings begun by petition, the person against whom […]

Lat. In tbo civil law. The plaintiff’s statement of his cause of action to an action in rem. Calvin Source: Black’s Law […]

In logic. Beg-glng the question,, which is the taking of a thing for true or for granted, and drawing conclusions from it […]

Fr. Small; minor? inconsider-able. Used in several compounds, and sometimes written “petty.” Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Used in contradistino-tion from the grand assize, which was a jury to decide on questions of property. Petits assize, a jury to […]

Lat. In old English law. A demandant; the plaintiff in a real action. Bract, fols. 102, 106b Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd […]

An ancient levy or tax of a penny on each house throughout Eng-Iand, paid to the pope. It was called “Peter-pence,” because […]

Mast of oaks, etc., or money taken for mast, or feeding hogs. Cowell Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Merchandise which takes up a good deal of room in a ship. Cowell Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In England. A toll charged for weighing avoirdupois goods other than wool. 2 Chit. Com. Law, 16 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd […]

In Spanish law. Coroner. whlte, New Recop. b. 1, tlt 1, I 3 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)