Viewers; persons sent by the court to take a view of any place in qucs-tion, for the better decision of the right It signifies, also, such as are sent to view* those that essoin themselves de malo lecti. (i. e., excuse themselves on ground of illness
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In old Engllsh law. A toll-booth. Cro. Jac. 122
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L. Fr. Distresses forbidden to be replevied; the refusing to let the owner have his cattle which were distrained. Kelham
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In mining law. A body of min-eral or mineralized rock, filling a seam or fissure in the earth’s crust, within defined boundaries in the general mass of the moan-tain, and having a general character of con-tlnuity in the direction of its length. See Iron Silver Min. Co. v. Cheesman, 116 U. S. 529, 6 Sup. Ct. 481, 29 L. Ed. 712; U. S. v. Iron Silver Min. Co., 128 U. S. 673, 9 Sup. Ct. 195, 32 L. Ed. 571; Stlnchfleld v. Gillis, 96 Cal. 33, 30 Pac. 839; Synnott v. Shaughnessy, 2 Idaho (Hash.) 122, 7 Pac. 82; Beals v. Cone, 27 Colo. 473, 62 Pac. 948, 83 Am. SL Rep. 92; waterloo Mln. Co. v. Doe, 82 Fed. 51, 27 C. C. A.: 50; Consolidated, etc., Min. Co. v. Champion Min. Co. (C. C.) 63 Fed. 544
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The word “vehicle" Includes every description of carriage or other artifl-cial contrivance used, or capable of being used, as a means of transportation on land. Rev. St. U. S. 8 4 (U. S. Comp. St. 1901
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In Roman law. Customs-duties ; taxes paid upon the Importation or exportation of certain kinds of merchan-dlse. Cod. 4, 61
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In old Lombardic law. The offense of stopping one on the way; fore-stalling. Spelman
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Lat. Fines paid to the crown to defray the ex-peuses of maintaining courts of justice. 8 Salk. 33
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one who was in dignity next to a baron. Britt. 109; Bract, lih. 1, c. 8. one who held of a baron. Euc. Brit
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The tenants of the man- * or of Bradford, in the county of wilts, paid a yearly rent by this name to their lord, in lieu of veal paid formerly in kind, wharton
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In old European law. 8or-cery; witchcraft; the profession of the Van-do is
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L. Lat A waste or common lying open to the cattle of all tenants who have a right of coraiuoning. Cowell
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In feudal iaw. A feudal ten-ant or grantee; a feudatory; the holder of a fief on a feudal teuure, and by the obliga-tion of performing feudal services. The correlative term was “lord.”
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The operation of castra? tion as performed by section (cutting) of the vas deferens or spermatic cord; sometimes proposed as an inhibitory punishment for rapists and otber criminals
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In old Scotch law. A war-ren. Answering to “warenna,” iu old Eng-llsh law. Spelman
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In pleading and practice. A discrepancy or disagreement between two Instruments or two steps in the same cause, which ought by law to be eutlrely consonant. Thus, if the evidence adduced by the plain-tiff does not agree with the allegations of hls declaration, it is a variance; and so if the statement of the cause of action in tbe dec-laratlon does not coincide with that given -in the writ. See Keiser v. Topping, 72 111. 229; Mulligan v. Ih S., 120 Fed. 98, 56 C. C. A. 50 ; Bank of New Brunswick v. Arrowsmith, 9 N. J. Law, 287; Skinner v. Grant, 12 Vt 462; State v. wadsworth, 30 Conn. 57
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A Spanish-American measure of length, equal to 33 English inches or a trifle more or less, varying according to local us-age. See U. S. v. Perot, 98 U. S. 428, 25 L. •Ed. 251
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In old Scotch law. ward; cuetody; guardianship. Answering to “war-da,” in old English law. Spelman
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RS, or VIDAMES. An obso-. lete title of dignity next to a peer. 2 Inst
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