In English law. one who is put out of the protection or aid of the law
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In English law. A pro-cess by which a defendant or person in con-tempt on a civil or criminal process was de-clared an outlaw. If for treason or felony, it amounted to conviction, and attainder. Stim. Law Gloss. See Respubllca v. Doan. 1 Dall. (Pa.) 86, 1 L. Ed. 47; Dale County v. Gunter, 46 Ala. 138; Drew v. Drew, 37 Me. 39L
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Any house necessary for the purposes of life, in which the owner does
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The Saxon thanes divided their hereditary lands into Inland, such as lay nearest their dwelling, which they kept’ to their own use, and outland, which lay beyond the demesnes, and was granted out to tenants, at the will of the lord, like copy-hold estates. This outland they subdivided into two parts, one part they disposed among those who attended their persons, called “theodans,” or lesser thanes; the oth-er part they allotted to thelr husbandmen, oq churls. Jacob
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1. An allowance made hy the United States government to one of its dip* lomatic representatives going abroad, for the expense of his equipment
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T, or OUTHOM. A calling men out to the army by sound of horn. Jacob. ’
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The name given to the great hall of the parliament house in Edinburgh, in which the lords ordinary of the court of session sit as single judges to hear causes. The term is used colloquially as expressive of the business done there in contradistinction to the “Inner House,” the name given to the chambers in which the first and second divisions of the court of session hold their sittings. Bell
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A liberty or privilege in the ancient common law, whereby a lord was enabled to call any man dwelling in his manor, and taken for felony in another place out of hls fee, to judgment in his own court Du Cange
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In mlnlng law. The edge of a stratum which appears at the surface of the ground; that portion of a vein or lode which appears at the surface or immediately under the soil and surface debris. See Duggan v. Davey, 4 Dak. UO, 26 N. W. 887; Stevens v. williams, 23 Fed. Cas. 40
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In the English courts, barristers at law have been divided lnto two classes, viz., king’s counsel, who are admit-ted within the bar of the courts, in seats specially reserved for themselves, and junior counsel, who sit without the bar; and the latter are thence frequently termed barristera of the “outer bar,” or “utter bar.” in contradistinction to the former class. Brown
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A mercantile phrase applled to a ship or vessel that has been so long at sea ns to Justify the lielief of her total loss
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A tax or charge formerly imposed by the state of Maryland for the in-spection and niarklng of hogsheads bf tobacco intended for export See Turner v. Maryland, 107 U. S. 38, 2 Sup. Ct. 44, 27 L. Ed. 370; Turner v. State, 55 Md. 264
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At a time when no term of the court is beiug held; in the vacatlon or interval which elapses between terms of the‘court See McNeill v. Hodges, 99 N. C. 248, 6 S. E. 127
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In reference to rights, linblllties, or jurlsdlctlons arising out of the common law, thls phrase is equivalent to “beyond sea,” which see. In other con-nections, it means physically beyond the ter-ritorlal limits of the partlcular state in quee-tion, or constructively so,’ as in the case of a foreign corporation. See Faw v. Roberdeau, 3 Cranch, 177, 2 L. Ed. 402; Foster v. Givens, 67 Fed. 684, 14 C. C. A. 625; Meyer v. Roth, 51 Cal. 582; Yoast v. willis, 9 Iud. 550; Larson v. Aultman A Taylor Co., 80 Wis. 281, 50 N. W. 915, 39 Am. St Rep. 893
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A term used in early Mexican land laws to designate certain boundaries within which grants of a smaller tract, which designated such ont-boundaries, might be located by the grantee. U. S. ▼. Maxwell Land Graut Co., 121 U. S. 325, 7 8up. Ct. 1015, 30 L. Ed. 949.
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He who has no legal status in court is said to be “out of court,” i. e., he is not before the court. Thus, when the plaintiff in an action, by some act of omission or commission, shows that he is unable to maintain his action, he is frequently said to put hlmself “out of court.” Brown
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L. Fr. Beyond the sea; a cause of excuse lf a person, being summoned, did not appear in court. CoweU
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To put out; to eject; to remove or deprive; to deprive of the possession or enjoyment of an estate or franchise
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In practice. A putting out; dispossession; amotion of possession. A spe-cies of injuries to things real, by which the wrong-doer gains actual occupation of the land, and compels the rightful owner to seek his legal remedy in order to gain possession. 2 Crabb, Real Prop. p. 1063, $ 2454a. See Ewing v. Burnet, 11 Pet 52, 9 L. Ed. 624; winterhurn v. Chambers, 91 Cal. 170, 27 Pac. 658; McMullin v. wooley, 2 Lans. (N. Y.) 396; Mason v. Kellogg, 38 Mich. 143
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Certain districts or tracts of lands in the orkney Islands were formerly so called, because each paid an annual tax of one ounce of silver
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The lierwite or fine paid to the lord by the inferloj tenant when his daughter was debauched. Cowell
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This word, though generally directory only, will be taken os mandatory if the context requires it Life Ass’n v. St Louis County Assessors, 49 Mo. 518
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The twelfth part; the twelfth part of a pound troy or the sixteenth part of a pound avoirdupois
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