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A more comprehensive term than “machine;” Including the appurtenances necessary to the working of a ma-. chine. Seavey v. Central Mut F. […]

To make a warlike device over a gate or other passage like to a grate, through which scalding water or pon-derous or […]

Contriving a plot or conspiracy. The act of planning or contriv-ing a scheme for executing some purpose, particularly an evil purpose; an […]

In old English law. one who buys stolen goods, particularly food, knowing it to have been stolen Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd […]

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, […]

In old Roman law. A name given to students of the dvil law in the fourth year of their course, from their […]

A large staff, made of the precious metals, and highly ornamented. It is nsed as an emblem of authority, and carried before […]

A term descriptive of the action of unofficial persons, organized bands, or mobs, who seize persons charged with or suspected of crimes, […]

In Scotch law. The ancient duty of this officer was to carry public messages to foreign states, and it is still the […]

A phrase applied to Incorporeal rights, Incapable of manual tra-ditlon, and whlch must pass by mere dellv-ery of a deed Source: Black’s […]

Lying in ambush; lying hid or concealed for the purpose of making a sudden and unexpected attack upon a person when he […]

A person who, hy hls pres-ence and silence at a transaction which affects hls interests, may be fairly supposed to acquiesce in […]

A term descriptive of waifs, wrecks, estrays, and the like, which may be seized without snit or action Source: Black’s Law Dictionary […]

The gate Into a church-yard, with a roof or awning hung on posts over It to cover the body brought for burial, […]

Sax. In old records. Lief silver or money; a small flne paid by the customary tenant to the lord for leave to […]

In old English law. A base sort of money, coined beyond sea in the likeness of English coin, and introduced Into England […]

Excess and extravagance which was formerly an offense against the public economy, but is not now punishable, wharton Source: Black’s Law Dictionary […]

Lat. To be outlawed, and have one’s head exposed, like a wolfs, with a reward to him who should take it. Cowell […]

Casting any corrupt or poisonous thing into the water, wharton Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In old English law. A silver penny, so called because it was to be coln-ed only at London, (a Londres,) and not […]

A bawd or strumpet. 3 lnst. 206 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Belonging to or measured by the revolutions of the moon Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A person of deranged or un-sound mind; a person whose mental faculties are in the condition called “lunacy,” (q. v Source: Black’s […]

As applied to judicial sales, this term means a sale in mass, as Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Lunacy is that condition or habit in which the mind is directed by the will, but is wholly or partially misguided or […]