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The practice of medicine is a pursuit very generally known and under-stood, and so also is that of surgery. The former includes […]

Intervention; lnterposi-tlon; the act of a third person who inter-feres between two contending parties with a view to reconcile them or persuade […]

OR. one who interposes be-tween parties at variance for the purpose of reconciling them Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Those incident to primary powers given by a principal to hls agent For example, the general authority given to collect, receive, and […]

Secondary evidence, (q. t Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A man of middle fortune Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

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

In old English law. Mid-night. Ad medium noctem, at midnight. Fleta, lib. 5, c. 5, 8 31 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd […]

Men of a middle and base condition. Blount Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In old English law. A bribe or reward; a compensation given in ex-chauge, where the things exchanged were not of equal value. […]

In Spanish law. Half-yearly profits of land. McMullen v. Hodge, 5 Tex. 34, 79 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Having relation to, or produced or accomplished by, the use of mechanism or machinery. Used chiefly in patent law. See compound terms […]

In old records. A house or place where me£heglin, or mead, was made Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A workman employed in shaping and uniting materials, such as wood, metal, etc., into some kind of structure, machine, or other object, […]

A secies of lien created by statute in most of tbe states, which exists in favor of persons who have performed work […]

In old English law. A duty whlch some persons exacted, by letters patent, for every piece of cloth made, besides alnage. Now […]

(Corruption of maison de Dieu.) A house of God; a monastery; religious house or hospital. See 39 Eliz. c. 5 Source: Black’s […]

That by which extent or dimension is ascertained, either length, breadth, thickness, capacity, or amount, webster. The rule by which anything is […]

1. The instrumeut or agency through which an end or purpose is accora-plished Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

To meander means to follow a wlndlng or fiexuous course; and when it is said, in a description of land, “thence with […]

A tract of low or level land produclng grass which is mown for hay. webster Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A rent formerly pald in meal Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In Spanish law. The right to the enjoyment of certain aggregate property, left with the condition thereon imposed that they are to […]

Ground somewhat watery, not plowed, but covered with grass and flowers. Enc. Lond Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

L. Fr. A work of the hand; a thing produced by manual labor. Yearb. M. 4 Edw. III. 38 Source: Black’s Law […]