A more comprehensive term than “machine;” Including the appurtenances necessary to the working of a ma-. chine. Seavey v. Central Mut F. Ins. Co., Ill Mass. 540
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To make a warlike device over a gate or other passage like to a grate, through which scalding water or pon-derous or offensive things may be cast npon the assailants. Co. IAtt 5a
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Contriving a plot or conspiracy. The act of planning or contriv-ing a scheme for executing some purpose, particularly an evil purpose; an artful design formed with deliberation
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In old English law. one who buys stolen goods, particularly food, knowing it to have been stolen
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In Roman law. This was the Benatus-consuUwn Mace-donianum, a decree of tbe Roman senate, first given under Claudius, and renewed un-der Vespasian, by whlch it was declared that no action should be maintained to recover a loan of money made to a child who was un-der the patria potestas. It was lntended to strike at the practice of usurers in making
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In old Roman law. A name given to students of the dvil law in the fourth year of their course, from their being supposed capable of solving any difficulty in law. Tayl. Civil Law, 39
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A large staff, made of the precious metals, and highly ornamented. It is nsed as an emblem of authority, and carried before certain public functionaries hy a mace-bearer. In many legislative bodies, the mace is employed as a visible symbol of the dlg-nity and collective authority of the house! In the house of lords and house of commons of the British parliament, it is laid upon the table when the house is in session. In the United States house of representatives, it is borne upright hy the sergeant-at-arms on extraordinary occasions, as when it is necessary to quell a disturbance or bring refractory members to order
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A term descriptive of the action of unofficial persons, organized bands, or mobs, who seize persons charged with or suspected of crimes, or take them out of the custody of the law, and Inflict sum-mary punishment upon them, without legal trial, and without the warrant or authority of law. See State v. Aler, 39 W. Va. 549, 20 S. E. 585; Bates’ Ann. St ohio, 1904, | 4426
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In Scotch law. The ancient duty of this officer was to carry public messages to foreign states, and it is still the practice of the heralds to make all royal proclamations at the Cross of Edinburgh. The officers serving under him are heralds, pursuivants, and messengers. Bell
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A phrase applied to Incorporeal rights, Incapable of manual tra-ditlon, and whlch must pass by mere dellv-ery of a deed
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Lying in ambush; lying hid or concealed for the purpose of making a sudden and unexpected attack upon a person when he shall arrive at the scene. In some jurisdictions, where there are sev-eral degrees of murder, lying in wait is made evidence of that deliberation and premedltat
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A person who, hy hls pres-ence and silence at a transaction which affects hls interests, may be fairly supposed to acquiesce in it, if he afterwards propose to disturb the arrangement, is said to be pre-vented from doing so by reason that he has been lying by
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A term descriptive of waifs, wrecks, estrays, and the like, which may be seized without snit or action
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The gate Into a church-yard, with a roof or awning hung on posts over It to cover the body brought for burial, when it rests underneath, wharton
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Sax. In old records. Lief silver or money; a small flne paid by the customary tenant to the lord for leave to plow or sow, etc Somn. Gavelkind, 27
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In old English law. A base sort of money, coined beyond sea in the likeness of English coin, and introduced Into England in the reign of Edward III. Prohibited by St 25 Edw. III. c. 4. Spelman; Cowell
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Excess and extravagance which was formerly an offense against the public economy, but is not now punishable, wharton
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Lat. To be outlawed, and have one’s head exposed, like a wolfs, with a reward to him who should take it. Cowell
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Casting any corrupt or poisonous thing into the water, wharton
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In old English law. A silver penny, so called because it was to be coln-ed only at London, (a Londres,) and not at the country mints. Lown. Essay Coins, 17; Cowell
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Belonging to or measured by the revolutions of the moon
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A person of deranged or un-sound mind; a person whose mental faculties are in the condition called “lunacy,” (q. v
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As applied to judicial sales, this term means a sale in mass, as
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Lunacy is that condition or habit in which the mind is directed by the will, but is wholly or partially misguided or erroneously governed by it; or it is the im-pairment of any one or more of the faculties of the mind, accompanied with or inducing a defect in the comparing faculty, owlngs’ Case, 1 Bland (Md.) 388, 17 Am. Dec. 311: See Insanity
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