A dispensation granted to a clerk, who, being defective in capacity for a benefice or other ecclesiastical function, is de facto admitted to it. CoweU
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Any point, space, or division of time. “The word ‘period’ has its etymological meaning, but it also has a distinctive signification, according to the subject with which it may be used in connection. It may mean any portion of complete time, from a thousand years or less to the period of a day; and when used to designate an act to be done or to be begun, though its completion may take an uncertain time, as, for instance, the act of exportation, it must mean the day on which the exportation commences, or it would he an unmeaning and useless word in Its connection in the statute.” Sampson v. Peaslee, 20 How. 579, 15 L. Ed. 1022
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M. Lat in the civil law. Peril; danger; hazard; risk
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The risk, hazard, or contingen-cy insured against by a policy of insurance
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In old practice Parchment In pergamcno scribi fecit. 1 And. 54
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In, medical jurispru dence. An inflammation of the lining membrane of the heart
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To perform an obllgation or contract is to execute, fulfill, or accomplish it according to its terms. This may consist either in action on the part of the person bound by the contract or in omission to act, according to the nature of the subject-mat-ter ; but the term is usually applied to any action in discharge of a contract other than payment
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The fulfillment or ac-complishment of a promise, contract, or oth* er obligation according to its terms
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Certain quallfica-tlons of a property character being requir-ed of persons who tender themselves as bail, when such persons have justified, i. e., established their sufficiency by satisfying the court that they possess the requisite qualifi-cations, a rule or order of court is made for thelr allowance, and the bail is then sald to be perfected, i. e., the proc&s of glvlng bail is fiulshed or completed. Brown
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The act of one who has en-gaged his faith to do a thiug, and does not do it, but does the contrary, wolff, Inst, f 390
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Imperative; absolute; not admlttlng of questlon, delay, or recon
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Lat. In the clvll law;. That which takes away or destroys forever; hence, exceptio peremptoria, a plea whlch is a perpetual bar. Calvin
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Lat in Roman law. The class of peregrini embraced at the same time both those yho had no capacity in law, (capacity for rights or jural relations,) namely, the slaves, and the members of those natlons which had not established amicable re* lations with the Roman people. Sav. Dr. Rom. { 66
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In ecclesiastical procedure au appeal is said to be perempted when the appellant has by hls own nct waived or barred his right of appeal; as where he partially complies with or acquiesces in the sen-tence of the court. Phillim. Ecc. Law, 1275
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Lat in Roman law. Hostility or enmity towards the Roman re-public; traitorous conduct ou the part of a citizen, subversive of the authority of the laws or tending to overthrow the government Calvin; Vicat
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As applied to an estate, perdurable signifies lasting long or forever. Thus, a disseisor or tenant in fee upon con-dltion has as high and great an estate as the rightful owner or tenant in fee-simple absolute, but not so perdurable. The term is chiefly used with reference to the extinguish-ment of rights by unity of seisin, which does hot take place unless both the right and the land out of which it issues are held for equal* ly high and perdurable estates. Co. Lltt. 313a, 313b; Gale, Easem. 582; Sweet
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A measure of land containing five yards and a half, or sixteen feet and a half in length; otherwise called a “rod” or “pole.” CowelL
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L. Lat. A pardon for a man who, for contempt in not yielding obedience to the process of a court, is outlawed, and afterwards of his own accord surrenders. Reg. orig. 28
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Taking Into possession. Thus, perception of crops or of profits is reducing them to possession
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In old records. A wear; a place in a river made up with banks, dams, etc., for the better convenience of pre-serving and taking fish. Cowell
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In English law. The name of a writ which is sued by consent of both par-ties when they are in doubt as to the bounds of thelr respective estates. It is directed to the sheriff to make perambulation, and to set the bounds and limits between them in certainty. Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 133
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A perch of land; sixteen and one-half feet. See Pebch
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Lat in old English law. By the living voice; the same with viva voce. Bract fol. 95
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