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In Engllsh law. An ancient gild or fraternity at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, who dealt in sea coal. St. 21 Jac. L c. 3 Source: […]

Sax. The benefit of the law. Du Cange Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In Saxon law. A fine for being present at an unlawful assembly. Spelman Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Sax. A lord’s protection. Du Cange Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Sax. In Saxon law. The crime of betraying one’s lord, (proditio domini;) treason. Crabb, Eng. Law, 59, 301 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary […]

Sax. A servant fed at his master’s cost Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Sax. A lord. 1 Spence, Ch. 86 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In legal use, this term always restricts the matter in connection with which it is employed to a period of time already […]

In old English law. A hide of land Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A title given by the con-stitution of Massachusetts to the lieutenant-governor of that commonwealth. Const Mass. pt. 2, c. 2, { 2, […]

Lat. These being witnesses. The attestation clause in old deeds and charters Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

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

In English law Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

One who hlres a thing, or the labor or services of another person. Turner v. Cross, 83 Tex. 218, 18 S. W. […]

Hiring is a contract by which one person grants to another either the en-joyment of a thing or the use of the […]

In Spanish law. A mortgage of real property Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

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

or HIND. In old English law. A husbandry servant Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In old English law. The loss or departure of a servant from his master. Domesday Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

To hinder and delay is to do something whlch is an attempt to defraud, rather than a successful fraud; to put some […]

The system of native law prevailing among the Gentoos, nnd admlnis-tered by the government of British Indla Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd […]

In English law. A term of court, beglning on the 11th and ending on tbe 31st of January in each year. Superseded […]

A society of men. The Saxons ranked men Into three classes, and valued them, as to. satisfaction for ln-jurles, etc., according to […]

In Spanish law. A receipt given by an heir of a decedent, setting forth what property he has received from the estate […]

A collection of orders and forms extensively modifying the plead-ing and practice in the English superior courts of common law, established in […]