A weight of two hundred and fifty-six pounds. Cowell
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A verdict whereby the jury refuse to follow the direction of the judge on a point of law
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In Scotch law. Appur-tenances. “Parts and pertinents” are formal words in old deeds and charters. 1 Forb, Inst, pt 2, pp. 112, 118
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In the English eccleslastlcal courts, a “suit for perturbation of seat” is the technical name for an actlon growlng out of a disturbance or Infringement of one’s rigbt to a pew or seat in a church. 2 Phillim. Ecc. Law, 1813
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A pittance; a small portion of alms or victuals. Also certain poor scholars of the Isle of Man. Cowell
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Applicable; relevant. Evidence is called “pertinent” when it is directed to the issue or matters in dispute, and legitimately tends to prove the allegations of the party offering it; otherwise it is called “impertinent.” A pertinent hypothesis is one which, if sustained, would logically influence the Issue, whitaker v. State, 106 Ala. 30, 17 South. 456
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In Spanish law. The claim or right which one has to the property in anything; the territory which belongs to any one by way of Jurisdiction or property; that w’hich is accessory or consequent to a principal thing, and goes with the ownership of it, as when it is said that such an one buys such an estate with all its appurtenances, (pertenencias.) Escriche. See Castillero v. United States, 2 Black. 17, 17 L. Ed. 360
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The act of persuading; the nct of influencing the mind by arguments or reasons offered, or by anything that moves the mind or passions, or inclines the will to a determination. See Marx v. Threet, 131 Ala. 340, 30 South. 831
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To belong or relate to, wheth-er by nature, appointment, or custom. See
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Fr. A person. This term is applicable to men and women, or to either. Civ. Code Lat. art. 3522, § 25
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To persuade is to induce to act. Persuading is ln-dueing others to act. Crosby v. Hawthorn, 25 Ala. 221; wilson v. State, 38 Ala. 411; Nash v. Douglass, 12 Abb. Prac. (N. S.) (N. Y.) 190
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In criminal law. To as-sume the person (character) of another, wlth-out his consent or knowledge, in order to de-ceive others, and, in such feigned character, to fraudulently do some act or gain some advantage, to the harm or prejudice of the person counterfeited. See 2 East, P. C. 1010
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In Spanish law. An at-torney. So called because he represents the person ot another, either in or out of court. Las Partidas, pt. 3, tit. 5,1.1
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In modern civil law. The incidence of a law or statute upon per-sous, or that quality which makes it a personal law rather than a real law. “By the personality of laws, foreign jurists generally mean all laws which concern the condltion, state, and capacity of persons.” Story, Confl. Laws, $ 16
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Personal property; movable property; chattels
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Lat. In tbe eivll law. A. personal action; an action
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Having the rights and powers of a person; able to hold or malntain a plea In court; also capacity to take anything granted or given
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Appertaining to the per-8on; belonging to an individual; limited to the person; having the nature or partaking of the qualities of human beings, or of mova-ble property
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A man considered accordlng to the rank he holds in society, with all the rlghts to whlch the place he holds entitles him, and the duties which it imposes. 1 Bouv. Inst. no. 137
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Lat. In the clvil law. A following after; a pursuing at law; a sult or prosecution. Properly that kind of Judl-cial proceedlng before the prretor which was called “extraordinary.” In a general sense, any judicial proceeding, Including not only “actions,” (actiones,) properly so called, but other proceedlngs also. Calvin
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