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RE. To give, or grant, and assure anything by a written instrument Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

ON. Commencement; opening; initiation. The beginning .of. the operation of a contract or will, or of a note, mortgage, lien, etc.; the […]

The crime of sexual intercourse or cohabitation between a man and woman who are related to each other within the degrees wherein […]

To make a building serve as a castle. Jacob Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A house-burner; one guilty of arson; one who maliciously and willfully sets another person’s building on fire Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd […]

An unlnclosed Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Imprisonment; confinement in a jail or penltentlary. This term is seldom used in law, though found occasionally in statutes, (Rev. St. okl. […]

In maritime law, and particularly wlth reference to the stowage of cargo, thls term is contrasted with “out-board.” It does not necessarily […]

In Saxon law. A security, pledge, or hypotheca, consisting of the chattels of a person unable to obtain a personal “borg,” or […]

The act of install-lng or inducting into office with formal cere-monlee, as the coronation of a soverelgn, the inauguration of a presldent […]

In old records. Profit or product of ground. Cowell Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Heedlessness; lack of attention ; failure of a person to pay care-ful and prudent attention to the progress of a negotiation or […]

Not subject to alienation ; the characteristic of those things which cannot be bought or sold or transferred from one person to […]

Insufficient; dlspropor-tlonate; lacking in effectiveness or in con-formity to a prescribed standard or measure Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

That which, under the established rules of law, cannot be ad-mitted or received; e. g., parol evidence to contradict a written contract […]

Present to the minds of men, and in full force and operation Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

The initial words of the concluding clause in deeds: “In witness whereof tbe said parties, have hereunto set their hands,” etc. A […]

L. Fr. In Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In chains; in actual custody. Gilb. Forum Rom. 97 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

without object; without concomitants or coherence Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In gage or pledge. 2 Bl. Comm. 157 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In the passage over; on the voyage over. See Sir william Scott, 3 C. Rob. Adm. 141 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd […]

In transit; on the way or passage; while passing from one person or place to another. 2 Kent, Comm. 540-552; More v. […]

In so many words; in precisely the same words; word for word Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In the whole; wholly; com-pletely; as the award is void in toto Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)