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The Caesarean opera-tion. See Cjksabeaw Sbction Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In English law. A port, wharf, or small haven to embark or land merchandise at Cowell; Blount Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd […]

A paroxysmal disease or disorder of the nervous system, more common in females than males, not originating in any anatomical lesion, due- […]

Those who, hav-ing been thought dead, had, after a long absence in foreign countries, returned safely home; or those wbo, having been […]

A com-binatlon of assumed or proved facts and cir-cumstances, stated in such form as to constitute a coherent and specific situation or […]

In old English law. A par* Ish Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In French lnw. Hy-pothecatlon; a mortgage on real property; the right vested in a creditor by the assign-inent to hlm of real […]

A supposition, assumption, or theory; a theory set up by the pros-ecution, on a criminal trial, or by the de-fense, as on […]

A term borrowed from the civil law. In so far as It is nat-urailzed in English and American law, it means a […]

A bond giv-en in the contract of bottomfy or respondentia Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

The name of an action allowed under the civil law for the enforcement of the claims of a credit-or by the contract […]

To pledge a thing without delivering the possession of it to the pledgee. “The master, when abroad, and in the absence of […]

Lat in the Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

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

In Scotland, the term “hypothec” is used to signify the landlord’s right which, independently of any stipula-tlon, he has over the crop […]

“Hypotheca” was a term of the Roman law, and denoted a pledge or mortgage. As distinguished from the term “pignus” in the […]

See Insanity Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In medical jurisprudence. (1) The morbid deposition of a sediment of any kind in the body. (2) A congestion or flushing of […]

In medical jurisprudence. A psychic or mental state rendering the pa-tient susceptible to suggestion at the will of another Source: Black’s Law […]

In tbe civil law. The name of the bequest or legacy given by the husband to hls wife, at his death, above […]

An instrument for measuring the density of fluids. Being ira-mersed in fluids, as in water, brines beer, brandy, etc., it determines the […]

Lat in the civU law. winter. Dig. 43, 20, 4, 34. written, in some of the old books, “perns.” Fleta, lib. 2, […]

A mongrel; an animal foriu-ed of the nnlon of different species, or dif-ferent genera; also (metaphorically) a human being born of the […]

See Hidage Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In old English law. Augury; divination Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)