Bearing. Gerens datum, bear-lug date. l’Ld. Raym. 336; Hob. 19
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In old New York law. A conrt messenger or constable. o’Cal-iaghan, New Neth. 322
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As applied to notes, bonds, and other .written Instruments, this term means that they are truly what they pur-port to be, and that they are not false, forged, fictitious, simulated, spurious, or counterfeit. Baldwin v. Van Deusen, 37 N. Y. 492; Smelt-zer v. white, 92 U. 8. 392, 23 L. Ed. 508; Dow v. Spenny, 29 Mo. 390; Cox v. Northwestern Stage Co., 1 Idaho, 379
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In the civil law. A general class or dlvision, comprising several species. In toto jure generi per speciem derogatnr, et illud potisaimum habetur quod ad speciem directum eat, throughout the law, the species takes from the genus, and that is most par-ticularly regarded which refers to the species. Dig. 50, 17, 80
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A woman of birth above the common, or equal to that of a gen-tleman; an addition of a woman’s state or degree
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In Roman law. The members of a gens or common tribe
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Lat. In Roman law. A tribe or clan; a group of families, connected by com-mon descent and bearing the same name, be-ing all free-born and of free ancestors, and in possession of full civic rights
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Lat People. Contra omnes gentes, against all people. Bract, fol. 37b. words used In the clause of warranty in old deeds
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The issue or offspring of a mother-monastery. Cowell
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May mean either a de-gree of removal in computing descents, or a single succession of living beings in natural descent McMillan v. School Committee, 107 N. C. 609, 12 S. E. 330, 10 L. R. A. 823
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The usual commons in a religious house, distinguished from pietan-tin, which on extraordinary occasions were allowed beyond the commons. Cowell
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Chiefs of the several orders of monks, friars, and other religious societies
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Lat. In the civil law. A son-in-law; a da ugh ter’8 husband. (Filiae vir.) Dig. 38, 10, 4, 6
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Pertaining to, or designat-ing, the genus or class, as distinguished from that which characterizes the species or indi-vidual. Universal, not particularized; as op-posed to special. Principal or central; as opposed to local, open or available to all, as opposed to select, obtaining commonly, or recognized universally; as opposed to par-ticular. Universal or unbounded; as oppos-ed to limited. Comprehending the whole, or directed to the whole; as distinguished from anything applying to or designed for a por-tion only
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In Saxon law. A villein, or agricultural tenant, (villanus villicus;) a hind or farmer, (flrmarius rusticus.) Spelman
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Lat. In the civll law. A gem; a precious stone. Gems were distin-guished by their transparency; such as ein-eralds, chrysolites, amethysts. Dig. 34, 2, 19, 17
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In Saxon law. A meeting or moot; a convention; a public assemblage. These were of several sorts, such, as the witena-gemot, or meeting of the wise men; the folc-gemot, or general assembly of the people; the shire-gemot, or county court; the burg-gemot, or borough court; the hundred-gemot, or hundred court; the hali-gemot, or court-baron; the hal-mote, a convention of citizens in thelr public hall; the holy-mote, or holy court; the swein-gcmotc, or forest court; the ward-mote, or ward court, whar-ton; Cunningham
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Liable to pay geld; liable to be taxed. Kelham
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A horse that has been cas-trated, and which is thus distinguished from the horse in hls natural and unaltered con
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