Lat. Through Inad-vertence. 35 Eng. Law & Eq. 302
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Lat. In old English law. By human industry. A term applied to the reclaiming or taming of wild animals by art, lndustry, and educa-tion. 2 Bl. Comm. 391
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L. Lat in Eng-lish law. By the form of the gift; by the designation of the giver, and not by the op-eration of law. 2 Bl. Comm. 113, 191
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Lat By fraud, where a plea alleges matter of discharge, and the replication avers that the discharge was fraudulently obtained and is therefore invalld, it is called a “replication per fraud-em
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Lat. By the same. This phrase is commonly* used to express “by, or from the mouth of, the same judge.” So “per eundem in eadem” means “by the same judge in the same case.”
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Lat. In old practice. By the consideration (judgment) of the court. Yearb. M. 1 Edw. JI. 2.
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Lat. By the court. A phrase used in the reports to distinguish an opinion of the whole court from an opinion written by any one judge. Sometimes it de-. notes an opinion written by the chief jus-tice or presiding judge. See Clarke v. west-ern Assur. Co., 146 Pa. 501, 23 Atl. 248, 15 L. R. A. 127, 28 Am. St Rep. 821
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An abbreviation of the Latin “per centum” meaning by the hundred, or so many parts in the hundred, or so many hundredths. See Blakeslee v. Mans-field, 66 Iii. App. 119; Code Va. 1887, 8 5 (Code 1904, p. 7
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Lat. By consequence; consequently. Yearb. M. 9 Edw. III.
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L. Fr. By the mouth; orally. 3 How. State Tr. 1024
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T^it. By the hends or polls; according to the number of individuals: share and share alike. This term, de-rived from the civil law, is much used in the latv of descent and distribution, and de-notes that method of dlviding an lntestate estate by which an equal share is given to each of a number of persons, all of whom stand in equal degree to the decedent, with-out reference to thelr stocks or the right of representatlon. It is the antithesis of per stirpes, (q. v
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L. Fr. For or during another’s life; for snch period as another person shall live
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Lat. In the civil law. By turning away. A term applied to that klnd of sale where the goods are tak-en in bulk, and not by weight or measure, and for a single price; or where a piece of land is sold as contalnlng in gross, by es-timation, a certain number of acres. Poth. Cont Sale, nn. 256, 309. So called because the bpyer acts without partlcular exumina-tion or dlscrlmlnatlon, turning hls face, as it were, away. Calvin
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Lat By the year. A phrase still in common nse. Ramsdeil v. Hulett, 50 Kan. 440, 31 Pac. 1092; State v. McFetridge, 64 wls. 130, 24 N. W. 140; Haney v. Caldwell, 35 Ark. 168
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when a writ of entry is brought against a second alienee or.de
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To come in ln the per is to clalm by or through the person last en-tltled to nn estate; as the helrs or assigns of the grantee. To come in ln the post is to claim by a paramount and prior title; as the lord by escheat
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A dried berry of the black pepper. In English law, the reservation of a merely nominal rent, on a lease, is sometimes expressed by a stipulation for the payment of a peppercorn
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Lat. In Roman law. The sale per aes ef libram (with copper and scales) was a ceremony used in transfer-ring res mancipi, in the emancipation of a son or slave, and in one of the forms of making a will. The parties having assem-bled, with a number of witnesses, and one who held a balance or scales, the purchaser struck the scales with a copper coin, repeat-ing a formula hy which he claimed the sub-ject-matter of the transaction as his property, and handed the coin to the vendor
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In Spanish-American law. A lot of land of fifty feet front, and one hundred feet deep, originally the portion grant-ed to foot-soldiers of spoils taken or lands conquered in war
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A state; as the people of the state of New York. A nation in its collect-ive and political capacity. Nesbitt v. Lusli-ington, 4 Term R. 783; U. S. v. Quincy, 6 Pet. 467. 8 L. Ed. 458; U. S. v. Trumbull tD. C.) 48 Fed. 99. In a more restricted seuse, and as generally used in constitution-al law, the entire body of those citizens of
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In Mexico. A debtor held by hls creditor in a qualified servitude to work out the debt; a serf, webster
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The state or condition of a peon as above defined; a condition of en* forced servitude, hy which the servitor is restrained of hls liberty and compelled to labor in liquidation of some debt or obliga-tlou, real or pretended, against his will. Peouage Cases (D. C.) 123 Fed. 671; In re Lewis (C. C.) 114 Fed. 963; U. S. v. McClellan (D. C.) 127 Fed. 971; Rev. St. U. S. S 5526 (U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 3715
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A road shut up or closed at its terminal points, wolcott v. whit comb, 40 VL 41
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