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The first crop of grass or hay, in opposition to after-math or second cutting. Paroch. Antiq. 459 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd […]

The art, office, or science of heralds. Also an old and obsolete abuse of buying and selling precedence in the pa-per of […]

In English law. An ease-ment or liberty, which consists in the right to pasture cattle on another’s ground Source: Black’s Law Dictionary […]

A government exercised by seven persons, or a natlon divided into seven governments. In the year 560, seven dlfferent monarchies had been […]

In ancient law, a herald was a diplomatic messenger tvho carried messages between kings or states, and especially proc-lamatlons of war, peace, […]

Peter-pence, (q. « Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In Saxon law. The servlce of herdsmen, done at the will of their lord Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Sax. In old Engllsh law. An acquittance from a flne for hanglng a thief. Fleta, llb. 1, c. 47, | 17 Source: […]

Henry the old, or*Elder. Klng Henry I. is so called in anclent English chronicles and charters, to dis-tinguish hlm from the subsequent […]

A fine for flight on account of murder. Domesday Book Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In Saxon law. A prison, a gaol, or house of correction Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A page; an attendant; a herald. See Barnes v. State, 88 Md. 347, 41 Atl. 781 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed […]

A customary payment of money Instead of hens at Christmas; a composition for eggs. CowelJ Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

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

A word of futurity, whlch, as employed in legal documents, stat-utes, and the llke, always imports a con-tinuity of action or condition […]

A Saxon brass coin, of the value of a half-penny Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In medical Juriepru-dence. Unilateral paralysis; paralysis of one slde of the body, commonly due to a lesion in the brain, but sometimes […]

Thatch or straw; a covering for the head in war; a coat of arms bearing a crest; the tiller or haudle of […]

The end-wall covering and defendlng the rest of the building. Paroch. Antiq. 573 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In Scotch law. The movables which go to the heir, and not to the executor, that the land may not go to […]

The name formerly given to a place under the exchequer chamber, where the klng’s debtors were confined. Rich. Dict Source: Black’s Law […]

A word used in deeds of conveyance, (either solely, or in connection with others,) where it is intended to pass a fee […]

The quality or condition of being heir, or the relation between the heir and hls ancestor Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed […]

Succession by inheritance Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

SS. A female heir to a person havlng an estate of lnherltance. when there are more than one, they are called “co-heir-esses,” […]