In old English law. A merchant denizen; one born within the Eng-lish pole. Blount
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In old English law. An ancient custom, where children were born out of wedlock, and their parents afterwards intermarried. The children, to-gether with the father and mother, stood un-der a cloth extended while the marriage was solemnized. It was in the nature of adoption. The children were legitimate by
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Lat. A palace. The emperor’s house in Rome was so called from the Mons Palatinus on which it was built. Adams, Rom. Ant. 613
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Lat. In the civil iaw. open-ly; in the presence of many. Dig. 50, 16, 33
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Possessing royal privileges. See County Palatine
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A court formerly ex-isting in England. It was created by Charles I., and abolished in 1849. It was held in the borough of Southwark, and had jurisdic* tlon of all personal actions arising within twelve miles of the royal palace of white-hall, exclusive of London
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A duty to lords of manors for exporting and importing vessels of wine at any of their ports. Jacob
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Fr. The country; the neighborhood. A trial per pat’s signifies a trial by the country; that is, by jury. An assurance by matter in pais is an assurance transacted between two or more private per-sons “Jn the country;” that is, upon the very spot to be transferred. Matter in pais signifies matter of fact, probably because matters of fact are triable by the country; i. c., by Jury; estoppels in pais are estoppels by conduct, as distinguished frpm estoppels by deed or by record
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ordinary conveyances between two or more persons in the country; i. e., upon the land to be trans-fferred
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It is held that colored lmitations of rugs and carpets and colored working designs, each of them valuable and designed by skilled persons and hand paint-ed, but having no value as works of art, are not “paintings,” within the meaning of that term as used in a statute on the, liability of carriers. 3 Ex. Div. 121
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In the practice of leg-lslative bodies, this is the name given to a Bpecies of negative proxies, by which two members, who belong to opposite parties or are on opposite sides with regard to a given question, mutually agree that they will both be absent from voting, either for a specified period or when a division is had on the particular question. By this mutual agreement a vote is neutralized on each side of the
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The name given to acts of parliament to attaint particular persons of treason or felony, or to inflict pains and penalties beyond or contrary to the common law, to serve a spe-cial purpose. They are in fact new laws, made pro re nata.
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A gold or silver coin, of several kinds and values, formerly current in India. It was valued, at the United States custom-house, at $1.94
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In Spanish law. Payment Las Partidas, pt. 5, tlt. 14, 1. 1. Pagamcnto, satisfaction
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A petty magistrate of a pagus or little district in the country
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Lat. In tbe civU law. A pact. An agreement or convention without specific na/ne, and without consideration, which, however, might, in its nature, produce a civil obligation. Heinecc. Elem. lih. 3, tit. 14, g 775
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Relating to or generating an agreement; hy way of bargain or cove-nant
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In international law. Con-tracts between nations which are to be performed by a single act, and of whicb execu-tion is at an end at once. 1 Bouv. InsL no. 100
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The name for a consignment of goods, consisting of one large parcel made up of several small ones, (each bearing a different address,) collected from different persons by the immediate consign-or, (a carrier,) who unites them into one for his own profit, at the expense of the railway by which they are sent, since the railway company would have been paid more for the carriage of the parcels singly than together, wharton
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