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At common law. A person who succeeds, by the rules of law, to an estate in lands, tenements, or hereditaments, upon the […]

Such goods and chat-tels as, contrary to the nature of chattels, shall go hy special custom to the heir along with the […]

The leader of the monks in the Greek Church Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A young cow which has not had a calf. 2 East, P. C. 616. And see State v. McMinn, 34 Ark. 162; […]

The leadership of one among several Independent confederate states Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

The epoch or account of time used by the Arabians and the Turks, who begin their computation from the day that Mahomet […]

An allowance of wood for repairing hedges or fences, w’hich a ten-ant or lessee has a right to take off the land […]

A vagabond priest in olden time Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A small haven, wharf, or land-ing place Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Toil or customary dues at the hithe or wharf, for landing goods, etc., from which exemption was granted by the crown to […]

In fendal law. Rent Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Ah engine to take fish in the river Ouse. 23 Hen. VIII. c. 18 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A device for catch-ing fish in ebbing water. St. 23 Hen. VIII. c. 5 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A week’s man; the canon or prebendary in a cathedral church, who had the peculiar care of the choir and the offices […]

An unlawful fisher in the Thames below London bridge; so called because they generally fished at ebbing tide or water. 4 Hen. […]

In Saxon law. The privilege of having the goods of a thief, and the trial of him, within a certain liberty. Cowell […]

In criminal law. A state of violent and uucoutrollable rage Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In maritime parlance and admiralty law. To stop a sailing vessel’s headway by bringing her head “into the wind,” that is, in […]

A tax levied In England by St. 14 Car. II. c. 10. consisting of two shillings on every hearth or stove in […]

In English law. A species of modus or composition for tithes. Anstr. 323. 326 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In equity praotioe. The Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A term applied to that spe-cies of testimony given by a witness who relates, not what he knows personally, but what others […]

Freedom from slckness or suffering. The right to the enjoyment of health is a subdivision of the right of per-sonal security, one […]

Free from disease or bodily ailment, or any state of the system pecu-liarly susceptible or liable to disease or bod,^ ily ailment […]

In Saxon law. A sort of pillory, by which the head of the culprlt was caught between two boards, as feet are […]