Another name for a curative act or statute. See Lockhart v. Troy, 48 Ala. 584
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In old English law. one of the services to be rendered by a thane, but in what it consisted seems un-certain
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In Saxon law. A court-baron; an ecclesiastical court
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An exaction of 40d. ob more, collected by the sheriff of Northum-berland from the people of that county twice iu every seven years, without account to the king. Abolished in 1444. Cowell
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In old English law. A narrow piece of unplowed land left at the end of a plowed field for the turning of the plow. Called, also, “butt”
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A syllabus to a reported case; a summary of the points decided in the case, which is placed at the head or be-glnning of the report
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In Saxon law. Tbe head or chlef officer of a borough; chief of the frankpledge tithing or decennary. This office was afterwards, when the petty con-stableship was created, united with that of-flce
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Certain tribunals in Scotland, abolished by 20 Geo. II. c. 50. Ersk. 1, 4, 5
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Exposed to or involving danger; perilous; risky
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Chief; leading; principal; the upper part or priucipal source of a stream
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In old English law. An oflicer appointed in the lord’s court to keep
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A trader who goes from place to place, or along the streets of a town, selling the goods which he carries with him
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Another name for “hedge-bote,” being one of the estovers allowed to a tenant for life or years, namely, material for repairing the necessary hedges or fences of his grounds. 2 Bl. Comm. 35; 1 washb. Real Prop. 129
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A coat or shirt of mail; hence, derivatively (in feudal law) one who held a fief on the duty or service of providing himself with such armor and standing ready, thus equipped, for military service when called on. wharton
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In old English law. A valley. Co. Litt. 5b
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To possess corporally. “No one, at common law, was sald to have or to be in possession of land, unless it were con-veyed to him by the livery of seisin, which gave him the corporal investiture and bodily occupation thereof.” Bl. Law Tracts, 113
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A place of a large recelpt and safe riding of shlps, so situate and secured by the land circumjacent that the vessels thereby rlde and anchor safely, and are protected hy the adjacent land from dangerous or violent winds; as Milford Haven, Plym-outh Haven, and the like. Hale de Jure Mar. par. 2, c. 2. And see Lowndes v. Board of Trustees, 153 U. S. 1, 14 Sup. Ct. 758, 38 L. Ed. 615; De Longuemere v. New York Ins. Co., 10 Johns. (N. Y.) 125(a); De Lovio v. Bolt, 7 Fed. Cas. 429
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L. Fr. High street; highway. Yearb. P. 11 Hen. VI. 2
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In old English law. A man armed wlth a coat of maii. Jacob
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Lat. In the clvll law. A species of servitude, consisting In the rlght to draw water from another’s well or spring, in which the iter, (right of way to the well or spring,) so fnr as it is necessary, is tacitly included. Dlg. 8, 3, 1; Mackeld. Rom. Law, S 318
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The use of thls word, instead of the statutory word “carry,” in an indictment charging that the defendant “did felo-niously steal, take, and haul away” certain personalty, will not render* the indlctment bad, the words being in one sense equiva-lent. Spittorff v. Stnte, 108 Ind. 171, 8 N. E. 911
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In old English law. Hatred. Leg. wm. I. c. 16; Blount
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