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A measure of length or distance, containing 8 furlongs, or 1,760 yards, or 5,280 feet This is the measure of an ordl-nary< […]

A payment or charge, at a fixed rate per mile, allowed as a compeusa-tlon for traveling expenses to members of legislative bodies, […]

The summer solstice, which is on the 24th day of June, and Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In Spanish law. Crops of grain, white, New Recop. b. 1, tit. 7, c. 5, >?• Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed […]

See Bill Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In ships of war, a kind of naval cadet, whose buslness is to second or transmit the orders of the superior officers […]

The middle thread of a stream is an imaginary line drawn lengthwise through the middle of its current Source: Black’s Law Dictionary […]

An agent between two: parties, an Intermediary who performs the ofiice of a broker or factor between seller and buyer, producer and […]

In old Engllsh law. Theft; cheating Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A phfase used in log-ic to denote the term which occurs in both of the premises in the syllogism, being the means […]

one of the names of the general councll lmmemorlally held in England. The Witenagemote Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Great councll. one of the names of the general council of the kingdom in the times of the Saxons. 1 Bl. Comm. […]

The feast of the Archangel Michael, celebrated in Ekigland on the 29th of September, and one of the usual quarter days Source: […]

E, or MICH. O. Eng. * To practice crimes requiring concealment or secrecy; to pilfer artlcles secretly. Micher, one who practices secret […]

or METTENSCHEP. In Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Lat Fear; terror. In a tech-nical sense, a reasonable and well-grounded apprehension of some great evil, such as death or mayhem, and […]

A mother clty; one from whlch a colony was sent out. The capital of a province. Calvin Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd […]

ln Engllsh law. one of the titles of an archbishop. Derived from the circumstance tiiat archbishops were consecrated at first in the […]

The unit of measure in the “metric system” of weigihts and measures. It is a measure of length, belng the ten-mil-lionth part […]

A system of meas-ures for length, surface, weight, and capaci-ty, founded on the metre as a unit It orlg-lnated in France, has […]

In patent law. “Engine” and “method” mean the same thing, and may be the subject of a patent Method, properly speaking, is […]

See Insanitt Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

or METEYARD. A staff Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Sax. Speech; discourse. Mathlian, to speak; to harangue. Anc. Inst Eng Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

An lnstrument of measurement; as a coal-meter, a gas-meter, a land-meter Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)