In oontraots. The term “goods” is not so wide as “chattels,” for it applies to Inanimate objects, and does not in-clude animals or chattels real, as a lease for years of house or land, which “chattels” does Include. Co. Litt. 118; St. Joseph Hydraulic Co. v. wilson, 133 Ind. 465, 33 N. E. 113
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In oid English law. A breach in a bank or sea wall, or a passage worn by the flux and reflux of the sea. St. 16 & 17 Car. II. c. 11
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1. Valld; sufliclent in law; effectual ; unobjectionable
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Tbe flctl-tious plaintiff in the old action of ejectment, most frequently called “John Doe,” was some-times called “Goodright” or “Goodtitle.”
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In Hindu law. An agent; a steward; a confidential factor; a representative
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In medical jurlsprud-ence. A venereal disease, characterized by a purulent inflammation of the urethra
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L. Lat. A jester, buf-foon, or juggler. Spelman, voc. “Goliar-densis
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In various compound phrases (as those which follow) thls term lmplies elther motlon, progress, active operation, or present and continuous validlty and efficacy
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A mlne. Blount A slnk or passage for water. Cowell
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That which is offered to God or his service. Jacob
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An old form of the word “cucking-stool,” (q. v.) Cowell
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An ecclesiastical or church flne paid for crimes and offenses committed against God. Cowell
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YN. A hollow between two mountains; a valley or glen. Co. Lltt. 5b
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In old English law. A contrivance or structure for draining waters out of the land into the sea. Callis describee goats as “usual engines erected and built with portcullises and doors of timber and stone or brick. Invented first in Lower Ger-mnny.” Callis, Sewers, (91.) 112, 113. Cow-ell defines “gote,” a ditch, eewer, or gutter
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Extraordinary re-wards formerly given to officers of courts, etc.; money formerly given by the sheriff of a county in which no offenders are left for execution to the clerk of assize and judges’ officers. Jacob
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It was an ancient custom on a maiden assize, when there was no offender to be tried, for the sheriff to present the judge with a pair of white gloves. It is an immemorial custom to remove the glove from the right hand on taking oath, wharton
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In the civil law. A commentator or annotator. A term applied to the professors and teachers of the Roman law in the twelfth century, at the head of whom was Irnerius. Mackeld. Rom. Law, S 90
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An lnterpretation, consisting of one or more words, interlinear or marginal; an annotation, explanation, or comment on any passage in the text of a work, for pur-poses of elucidation or amplification. Par-ticularly applled to the comments on the Corpus Juris
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Lat. A gloss, explanation, or interpretation. The gloss# ot the Roman law are brief illustrative comments or annotations on the text of Justinian’s collections, made by the professors who taught or lec-tured on them about the twelfth century, (especially at the law school of Bologna,) and were hence called “glossators.” These glosses were at first inserted in the text with the words to which they referred, nnd were call-ed “gloss# interlincarcsbut afterwards they were placed in the margin, partly at the aide, and partly under the text, and called “gloss# marginales” A selection of them wns made by Accuraius, between A. D. 1220 and 1200. under the tltle of “Clossa Ordin-aria“ which is of the greatest authority. Mackeld. Rom. Law, $ 90
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Commissioners appointed to determine differences between scholars in a school or university and the townsmen of the place. Jacob
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Lat. In the civil law. A husband’s sister. Dig. 38, 10, 4, 6
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