A welsh term for a waster, rhymer, minstrel, or other vagabond who makes assemblies and collections. Barring. Ob. St 360
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The Mohammedan book of faith. It contains both ecclesiastical and secular laws
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In Hindu law. A mortgage-deed or deed of conditional sale, being one of the customary deeds or instruments of security in India as declared by regula-tion of 1806, which regulates the legal pro-ceedings to be taken to enforce such a security. It is also called ‘’Byebil-Wuffa” wharton
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The difference between “knowledge” and “belief’ is nothing more than In the degree of certainty, with re-gard to things which make not a very deep Impression on the memory, it mny be called “belief.” “Knowledge” is nothing more than a man’s firm belief. The difference is ordl-narily merely in the degree, to be judged of by the court, when addressed to the court; by the Jury, wheu addressed to the
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A title formerly given to the Lollards. Cowell
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In seamen’s language, a “knot” is a division of the log-line serving to meas-ure the rate of the vessel’s motion. The number of knots which run off from the reel in half a minute shows the number of miles the vessel sails in an hour. Hence when a ship goes eight miles an hour she is said to go “eight knots.” webster
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In conveyancing. A form of public address, of great antiquity, nnd with which many written instruments, such as bonds, letters of attorney, etc., still commence
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An ancient guild or society formed by King Edgar
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To assign to a bidder at an auction by a knock or blow of the hammer. Property is‘ said to he “knocked down” when the auctioneer, by the fall of his hammer, or by any other audible or visl-ble announcement, signifies to the bidder that he is entitled to the property on paying the amount of his bid, according to the terms of the sale. “Knocked down” and “struck off” are synonymous terms. Sherwood v. Reade, 7 Hill (N. ¥.) 439
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A species of feu-dal tenure, which differed very slightly from a pure and perfect feud, being entirely of a military nature; and it was the first, most universal, and most honorable of the feudal tenures. To make a tenure by knight-service, a determinate- quantity of laud was neces-sary, which was called a “knight’s fee,” (feodum militare,) the measure of which was estimated at 680 acres. Co. Litt. 69a; Brown
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A court which used to be held twice a year by the bishop of Hereford, In England
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In English law. The next personal dignity after the noblllty. of knights there are several orders and degrees. The first in rank are knights of the Garter, lustituted by Richard I. and improved by Edward III. in 1344; next follows a knight banneret; then come knights of the Bath, instituted by Henry IV., and revived by George I.; and they were so called from a ceremony of bathing the night before their creation. The last order are knights bachel-ors, who, though the lowest, are yet the most ancient, order of knighthood; for we find that King Alfred conferred this order upon his son Athelstan. 1 Bl. Comm. 403
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In English law. An officer in the royal household who has jurisdiction and cognizance of offenses com-mitted within the household and verge, aud
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A rascal; a false, tricky, or de-ceitfuL person. The word originally meant a boy, attendant, or servant, but long-continued usage has given it its present slgnifl-cation
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A portion of grain given to a mill-servant from tenants who were bound to grind their grain at such mill
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The ceremony of touching the lips to a copy of the Bible, used in administering oaths. It is the exter-unl symbol of the witness’ acknowledgment of the obligation of the oath
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IA. In medical jurisprudence. A form (or symptom) of mania, consisting in an irresistible propensity to steal. See INSANITY
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In English law. An ancient record remaining with the remem-b ran cer of the exchequer, being an inquisition or survey of all tlie lands in England, taken in tbe reign of Edward I. by John de Kirby, his treasurer. Blount; Cowell
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In Scotch law. . A church; the church; the establlshed church of Scotland. -Kirk-mote. A meeting of parishioners on church affairs.—Kirk-offiecr. The beadle of a church in Scotland.—Kirk-session. A parochial church court in Scotland, consisting of the ministers and eiders of each parish
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In old English law. The space of time between the 3d of May and the Epiphany, in which fishing for salmon in the Thames, between Gravesend and Henley-on-Thames, was forbidden. Rot. Part 50 Edw. III
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The prlncipal her-aid of Englaq0 was of old designated “klng of the heralds,” a title which seems to have been exchanged for “king-at-aruis” about the reign of Henry IV. The kings-at-arms at present exlsting in Eugland are three,—Garter, Clarenceux, and Norroy, besides Lath, who is not a member of the college. Scot: land is placed under an officer called “Lyon Klng-at-Arms,” and Ireland is the province of one named “Ulster.” Wharton
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or KINTLE. A hundred pounds lu weight See Quintal
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