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In the laws of oleron. To deny a seaman his mess. Liter-ally, to deny the table-cloth or victuals for three meals Source: […]

In Saxon law. oathsworth; oathworthy; worthy or entitled to make oath. Bract, fols. 185, 292b Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

D’S LAW. The law by whlch was effected the ejection of married priests, and the introduction of monks into churches, by oswald, […]

HUNDRED. An an Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Lat. Gates of the king-dom. The {torts of the kingdom of England are so tailed by Sir Matthew Hale. De Jure Mar. […]

Lat. In old English law. The door or porch of the church, where dower was anciently conferred Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd […]

Lat in the civil law. A monstrous or prodigious blrth. Dlg. 50, 16, 38 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A method or system of treating various diseases of the human body without the use of drugs, by manipulation applied to varlous […]

A partner whose name is made known and appears to the world as a partner, and who is* in reality such.- Story, […]

A tax anciently paid by merchants, etc., for leave to show or expose their goods for sale in markets. Du Cange Source: […]

Lat. In old plead-Ing. Shows to you. Formal words wlth whlch a demandant began his count. Fleta, lib. 5, c. 38, § […]

An implied or presumptive agency, which exists where oue, elther intentionally or from want of ordinary care, Induces another to believe that […]

A garden plot or hor-tilsge Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In old Englisb law. without war or feud, such security belng provided by the laws, for homicides under certaln circumstances, against the […]

In the civil law. Managers of houses for orphans Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

The claws of a dog’s foot Kitch Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Any person (but particularly a minor or infant) who has lost both (or one) of his or her parents. More particular-ly, a […]

That portion of an intestate’s effects which his children were entitled to by the custom of London. This custom appears to have […]

In Engllsh law. Transcripts sent to the remembrancer’s office in the exchequer out of the chancery, dlstln* guished from reoorda, which contain […]

In old English law. The trial by battle, which does not seem to have been usual in England before the time of […]

In Saxon law. without rec-ompense; as where no satisfaction was to be made for the death of a man killed, so that […]

Primitive; first in order; bearing its own authorlly, and not deriving authority from an outside source; as original jurisdiction, original writ, etc. […]

To establish or furnish wlth organs; to systematize; to put into working order; to arrange in order for the normal exercise of […]

A county which has its lawful officers, legal maehin-ery, and means for carrying out the powers and performing the duties pertaining to […]

An act of congress con-ferring powers of government upon a ter-ritory. In re Lane, 135 U. S. 443, 10 Sup. Ct. 760, […]