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A bargain; compact; agreement This word is used in writings on Roman law and on general Jurisprudence as the English form of […]

A horse load, which consists of seventeen stone and two pounds, or two hundred and forty pounds welght. Fleta, 1. 2, c. […]

A package means a bundle put up for transportation or commercial handling; a thing in form to become, as such, an article […]

Lat. Let him be freed or discharged Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

To put together in sorts with a fraudulent design. To pack a jury is to use unlawful, Improper, or deceitful means to […]

Payment Mat Par. A. D. 1248 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A measure of length containing two feet and a half, being the ordinary length of a step Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd […]

In old Euglish law. A toll for passage through another’s land. The same as “pedage.” Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

L. Lat To pay Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Hear ye. A word used in courts by the public crier to command attention when a proclamation is about to be made. […]

V. An abbreviation for “pro hac vice,” for this turn, for this purpose or occasion Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A half Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A petition made in conrt that the judges, for better proof’s sake, will hear or look upon any record. CoweU Source: Black’s […]

In old English law. As much land as an ox could till. Co. Lltt 5a. A measure of land of uncertain quantity. […]

In old praotioo. Hearing; the hearing a deed read, which a party sued on a bond, etc., might pray or demand, and […]

The complete dominion, title, or proprietary right in a thing or claim. See Property Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A restitution anciently made by a hundred br county for any wrong done hy one that was wlthln the same. Lamb. Arch. […]

In English law. The offense of transporting wool or sheep out of the klng-dom; so called from its being usually carried on […]

The person in whom is vested the ownership, dominion, or title of property; proprietor. Garver v. Hawkeye Ins. Co., 69 Iowa, 202, […]

Something unpaid. A debt, for example, is owing while it is unpaid, and whether it be due or not. Coquard v. Bank […]

In English law. Persons who carrled wool, etc., to the sea-side by night, in order that it might be shipped off con-trary […]

An opening; a proposal Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

TY. Equality. This word is used in law in several compound phrases, as fol-lows Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In Scotch law. An umpire appointed by a submission to decide where two arbiters have differed in opinion, or he ia named […]

open; manifest; public; issu-ing in action, as distinguished from that which rests merely in intention or design Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd […]