A lottery is any scheme for the disposal or distribution of property by chance among persons who have paid, or
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In English law. Cer-taln duties which must be paid by thosu who clalm to exercise the elective franchlse within certain cltles and boroughs, before they are entltled to vote. It is said that the practlce became unlform to refer to the poor-rate as a register of “scot and lot” voters; so that the term, when employed to define a right of election, meant only the payment by a parishioner of the sum to which he was assessed on the poor-rate. Brown
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A small tract or par-cel of land in a village, town, or city, suitable for .building, or for a garden, or other simllar uses. See Pllz v. Klllingsworth, 20 or. 432. 26 Pac. 305; wilson v. Proctor, 28 Mlnn. 13, 8 N. W. 830; webster v. Little Rock, 44 Ark. 551; Diamond Mach. Co. v. Ontonagon, 72 Mlch. 261, 40 N. W. 448; Fitzgerald v. Thomas, 61 Mo. 500; Phlllipsbnrgh v. Bruch, 37 N. J. Eq. 486
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In inanranoe. The injury or damage sustained by the insured in consequence of the happening of one or more of the accidents or misfortunes against which tbe insurer, in consideration of the premium, has undertaken to indemnify the insured. 1 Bouv. Inst no. 1215
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An article is “lost” when the owner has lost the possession or custody of it, iu-voluntarily and by any means, but more par-ticularly by accident or his own negligence or forgetfulness, and when he is ignorant of its whereabouts or cannot recover it by an ordinarily diligent search. See State Sav. Bank v. Buhl, 129 Mlch. 193, 88 N. W. 471, 56 L. R. A. 944; Belote v. State, 30 Mlss. 120, 72 Am. Dec. 163; Hoagland v. Amusement Co., 170 Mo. 335, 70 S. W. 878, 94 Am. SL Rep. 740
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In Englisb law. A title o» honor or nobility belonging properly to the degree of baron, but applied also to the
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In English law. Domin* lou, manor, seigniory, domain; also a title of honor used to a nobleman not being a duke. It is also the customary titulary appellatlon of the judges and some other persons in authority and office
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A right in the inhabitants of a parish within a manor, in England, to lop for fuel, at certain periods of the year, the branches of trees growing upon the waste lands of the manor. Sweet
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Lat. A colloquy; talk. In old Engllsh law, this term denoted the oral altercations of the parties to a suit, which led to the issue, now called the “pleadings.” It also designated an “imparlance,” (q. r.,) both names evidently referring to the talk-ing together of tlie parties. Loqucla sine die, a postponement to an indefinite time
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In various compound legal terms (see infra) this word carries a meaning not essentially different from its signification in the vernacular
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A proper lookout on a vessel is some one In a favorable position to see, stationed near enough to the helmsman to communicate with him, and to receive communications from bim, and exclusively employed in w’atchiug the movements of ves-sels which they are meetlug or about to pass. The Genesee Chief v. Fitzhugh, 12 How. 462, 13 L. Ed. 1058
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A name given to the mer-chants of Italy, numbers of whom, during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, were established as merchants and bankers in the principal cities of Europe
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Stems or trunks of trees cut into convenient lengths for the purpose of being afterwards manufactured into lumber of va-rious kinds; not including manufactured lumber of any sort, nor timber which is squared or otherwise shaped for use without further change in form. Kolloch v. Parcher, 52 wis. 393, 9 N. W’. 67. And see Haynes v. Hayward, 40 Me. 148; State v. Addington, 121 N. C. 538, 27 S. E. 988; Code W. Va. 1899. p. 10n, 8 27 (Code 1906, S 2524
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A body of primitive Wes-leyans, who assumed importance about the time of John wycliffe, (1360,) and were very successful iu disseminating evangelical truth; but, being implicated (apparently against thelr wlll) in tbe insurrection of,the villeins in 1381, the statute De Haretico Comburen-do (2 Hen. IV. c. 15) was passed against them, for their suppression. However, they were not suppressed, and their representa-tives survive to the present day under vari-008 names and disguises. Brown
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In Roman law. A*’ public clerk, register, or book-keeper; one
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A small house, lodge, or cot-tage. Mon. Angl. tom. 1, p. 400
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The science of reasoning, or of the operations of the understanding wbich are subservient to the estimation of evidence. The term includes both tlie process Itself of proceeding from known truths to unknown, and all other lntellectual operations, In so far as auxiliary to this
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A mischievous legisla-tive practice, of embracing in one bill several distinct matters, none of which, perhaps, could singly obtain the assent of the legis-lature, and then procuring its passage hy a combination of the minorities in favor of each of the measures Into a majority that will adopt them all. walker v. Griffith, 60 Ala. 369; Com. v. Barnet, 199 Pa. 161, 48 Atl. 976, 55 L. R. A. 882; o’Leary v. Cook County, 28 111. 534; St. Louis v. Tiefel, 42 Mo. 590
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An unlawful game mention-ed in SL 33 Hen. VIII. c. 9
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In old French and Canadian law. A flne payable by a roturier on every change of ownership of his land; a mutation or alienation fine, Steph. Lect. 351
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A ship’s Journal. It con-tains a minute account of the ship’s course^ with a short history of every occurrence dur-‘ lng the voyage. 1 Marsh. Ins. 312
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one who occupies hired apnrt-ments iu another’s house; a tenant of part of another’s house
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Habitation in another’s house; apartments in another’s house, fur-nished or unfurnished, occupied for habita-tion; the occupier heing termed a “lodger
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