At common law. A person who succeeds, by the rules of law, to an estate in lands, tenements, or hereditaments, upon the death of his ancestor, by descent and right of relationship. Hoover v. Smith, 96 Md. 393, 54 Atl. 102; Fletcher v. Holmes, 32 Ind. 510; Sewall v. Roberts, 115 Mass. 268; Dodge’s Appeal, 106 Pa. 216, 51 Am. Rep. 519; Howell v. Gifford, 64 N. J. Eq. 180, 53 Atl. 1074
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Such goods and chat-tels as, contrary to the nature of chattels, shall go hy special custom to the heir along with the inheritance, and not to the ex-ecutor. The termination “loom” (Sax.) sig-niflee a limb or member; so that an heir-loom is nothlng else but a limb or member of the inheritance. They are generally such thlngs as cannot be taken away wlthout damaging or dismembering the freehold; such as deer in a park, doves in a cote, deeds and charters, etc. 2 Bl. Comm. 427
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A young cow which has not had a calf. 2 East, P. C. 616. And see State v. McMinn, 34 Ark. 162; Mundell v. Hammond, 40 Vt. 645
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The leadership of one among several Independent confederate states
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The epoch or account of time used by the Arabians and the Turks, who begin their computation from the day that Mahomet was compelled to escape from
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An allowance of wood for repairing hedges or fences, w’hich a ten-ant or lessee has a right to take off the land let or demised to him. 2 Bl. Comm. 35
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Toil or customary dues at the hithe or wharf, for landing goods, etc., from which exemption was granted by the crown to some particular persons and societies, wharton
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Ah engine to take fish in the river Ouse. 23 Hen. VIII. c. 18
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A device for catch-ing fish in ebbing water. St. 23 Hen. VIII. c. 5
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A week’s man; the canon or prebendary in a cathedral church, who had the peculiar care of the choir and the offices of it for his own week. Cowell
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An unlawful fisher in the Thames below London bridge; so called because they generally fished at ebbing tide or water. 4 Hen. VII. c. 15; Jacob
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In Saxon law. The privilege of having the goods of a thief, and the trial of him, within a certain liberty. Cowell
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In criminal law. A state of violent and uucoutrollable rage
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In maritime parlance and admiralty law. To stop a sailing vessel’s headway by bringing her head “into the wind,” that is, in the direction from which the wind blows. A steamer is said to be “hove to” when held In such a position that she takes the heaviest seas upon her quar-ter. The Hugo (D. C.) 57 Fed. 411
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A tax levied In England by St. 14 Car. II. c. 10. consisting of two shillings on every hearth or stove in the kingdom. It was extremely unpopular, and wns abollshed by 1 W. & M. St. 1, c
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In English law. A species of modus or composition for tithes. Anstr. 323. 326
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A term applied to that spe-cies of testimony given by a witness who relates, not what he knows personally, but what others have told him, or what he has heard said by others. Hopt v. Utah, 110 U. S. 574, 4 Sup. Ct 202. 28 L. Ed. 262; Morell v. Morell, 157 Ind. 179, CO N. E. 1092; Stockton v. williams, 1 Doug. (Mich.) 570; People v. Kraft, 91 Hun, 474, 36 N. Y. Supp. 1034
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Freedom from slckness or suffering. The right to the enjoyment of health is a subdivision of the right of per-sonal security, one of the absolute rights of persons. 1 Bl. Comm. 129, 134. As to in-juries affecting health, see 3 Bl. Comm. 122
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Free from disease or bodily ailment, or any state of the system pecu-liarly susceptible or liable to disease or bod,^ ily ailment Bell v. Jeffreys, 35 N. C. 356. w
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In Saxon law. A sort of pillory, by which the head of the culprlt was caught between two boards, as feet are caught in a pair of stocks. Cowell
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