or PELFRE. Booty; also the personal effects of a felon convict Cowell
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Vassals or tenants of the same lord, who were obliged to serve and attend him in hls courts, being equal in function. These were termed “peers of fees,” because holding fees of the lord, or because their business in conrt was to sit and judge, under their lords, of disputes arising upon fees; but, lf there were too many in one lord-ship, the lord usually chose twelve, who had the title of peers, by way of distinction; whence, it is said, we derive our common juries and other peers. CowelL
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A woman who belongs to the noblllty, which may be either in her own right or by right of marriage
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In feudal law. The vassals of a lord who sat in his court as judges of their co-vassals, and were called “peers,” as being each other’s equals, or of the same condition
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The rank or dignlty of a peer or nobleman. Also the body of nobles taken collectively
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Lat in the civil and old Engllsh law. A putting or placing of the foot. A term used to denote the possession of lands by actual corporal entry npon them waggoner v. Hastings, 5 Pa. 303
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Lat. A foothold; an actual possession. To constitute adverse possession there must he pedis possessio, or a substantial inclosure. 2 Bouv. Inst. no
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Lineage; line of ancestors from which a person descends; genealogy. An account or register of a line of ancestors. Family relationship. Swink v. French, 11 Lea (Tenn.) 80, 47 Am. Rep. 277; People v. Mayne. 118 Cal. 516, 50 Pac. 654, 62 Am. St. Rep. 256
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Lat. In old crim-lnal law. The cutting off a foot; a punishment anclently Inflicted Instead of death. Fleta, lib. 1, c. 38
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In old English and Scotch law. Dusty-foot. A term applied to itinerant merchants, chapmen, or peddlers who attended fairs
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In criminal law. The un-natural carnal copulation of male with male, particularly of a man with a boy; a form of sodomy, (q. v
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Lat. In Roman law. At the foot; in a lower position; on the grouud. See Judex Pedankus
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Itinerant traders; persons who sell small wares, which they carry with them in traveling about from place to place. In re wilson, 19 D. C. 341, 12 L. R. A. 624; Com. v. Farnum, 114 Mass. 270; Hall v. State, 39 Fla. 637, 23 South. 119; Graffty v. Rushville, 107 Ind. 502, 8 N. E. 609, 57 Am. Rep. 128; In re Pringle, 67 Kan. 364, 72 Pac. 864
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In old English law. A toll or tax paid by travelers for the privilege of passing, on foot or mounted, through a forest or other protected place. Spelman
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Monetary; relating to money; consisting of money
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Lat. In Roman law. Cattle; a beast Under a bequest of pecudes were included oxen and other beasts of burden. Dig. 32, 81, 2
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LaL, In Roman law. Such private property as might be held by a slave, • wife, or son who was unuer the patria potestas, separate from the property of the father or master, and in the personal dispos-al of the owner
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Lat. originally and radl-cally, property in cattle, or cattle themselves. So called because the wealth of the ancients consisted in cattle. Co. Litt. 207b
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In ecclesiastical law. A parish or church in Englnnd whlch has jurls-dlctlon of ecclesiastical matters within itself, and lndependent of the ordinary, and is sub* Ject only to the metropolltan
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