Money expend-ed in procuring the interment of a corpse
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Movable goods which may be estimated and replaced accord-ing to welght, measure, and number. Things belonging to a class, which do not have to be dealt with in specie
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In tbe civil and old English law. Land; land or ground generally; land
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we found. ‘ one of the words by which a corporation may be created in England. 1 Bl. Comm. 473; 3 Steph. Comm. 173
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Lat. A founding or foun-dation. Particularly applied to the creation and endowment of corporations. As applied to eleemosynary corporations such as colleges and hospitals, it is said that “fundatio incipient” is the incorporation or grant of cor-porate powers, while “fundatio perflciens” is the endowment or grant or gift of funds or revenues. Dartmouth College v. Woodward, 4 wheat. 667, 4 L. Ed. 629
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The law which determines the constitution of government in a state, and prescribes and regulates the manner of its exercise; the organic law of a state; the constitution
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A public officer or employs. An oflicer of a private corporation is also sometimes so called
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Lat. Having ful-fllled the function, discharged the ofiice, or accomplished the purpose, and therefore of no further force or authority. Applied to an officer whose term lias expired, and who has consequently no further official authority; and also to an instrument, power, agency, etc., which has fulfilled the purpose of Its creation, and is therefore of no further vlr-tue or effect
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office; duty; fulfillment of a definite end or set of ends by the correct adjustment of means. The occupation of an office. By the performance of its duties, the officer is said to fill hls function. Dig. 32, 65, 1. See State v. Hyde, 121 Ind. 20, 22 N. E. 644
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In medical jurisprudence, one which prevents, ob-structs, or interferes with the due perforin-ance of its special functions by any organ of the body, without anatomical defect or ab-normality in the organ itself. See Higbee v. Guardian Mut. L. Ins. Co., 66 Barb. (N. Y.) 472. Distinguished from “organic” disease, which is due to some injury to, or lesion or malformation in, the organ in question
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The English equivalent of the Latin phrase “plene admin-istravit;” being a plea by nn executor or ad-minlstrator that he has completely and legally disposed of ail the assets of the estate, and has nothing left out of which a new claim could be satisfied. See Ryans v. Boogher, 169 Mo. 673, 69 S. W. 1048
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In old English iaw. The same as fuage, or smoke farthings. 1 Bl. Comm. 324. See Fuage
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Ample; complete; i>erfect: ma-ture; not wanting in any essential quallty. Mobile School Com’rs v. Putnam, 44 Ala. 537; Reed v. Hazleton, 37 Kan. 321, 15 Pac. 177; Quinn v. Donovan, 85 111. 195
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In the clvil law. A fugl-tive: a runaway slave. Dig. 11, 4; Cod. 6
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Fr. In medical jurlspru-dence. Ambulatory automatism. See Au-tomatism
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In Scotch practice. To outlaw, by the sentence of a court; to out-law for non-appearance in a criminal case. 2 Alls. Crim. Pr. 350
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one who flees; always nsed in law with the implication of a flight, evd-sion, or escape from some duty or penalty or from the consequences of a misdeed
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Lat. He has made flight; he fled. A clause inserted in an ln-qulsltion, in old English law’, meaning that a person indicted for treason or felony had fled. The effect of this is to make the party forfeit his goods absolutely, aud the profits of his lnnds until he has been pardoned or acquitted
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In old English law. A priv-ilege to hunt. Blount
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In old English law. A drove of cattle. Blount
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