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In old Engllsh law. The con-tract of lease or letting; also the rent (or farm) reserved upon a lease of lands, which […]

A Turkish word denoting a decree or grant of privileges, or passport to a traveler Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A Scotch measure of capacity, containing two gallons aud a pint. Spelman Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A partnership; the group of per-sons constituting a partnership. The name or title under which the members of a partnership transact business.—People […]

In old English law. A fine for refusing military servlce, (mnlcta Aetrec-tantis militiam.) Spelman Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

The efTect of combustion. The juridical meaning of the word does not differ from the vernacular. 1 Pars. Mar. Law, 231, et […]

Sax. A preparation to go lnto the army. Leg. Hen. I Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Sax. In old English law. Exemption from military service. Spelman Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Those that purify gold and silver, and part them by fire and water from coarser metals; and therefore, in the statute of […]

Sax. In old Engllsh law. A summoning forth to a military expedition, (indictio ad profectionem militarem.) Spel-mau Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd […]

An endlng; death, as the end of llfe. Blount; Cowell Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In old Engllsh lnw. To flne, or pay a flne. Cowell. To end or fluish a matter Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd […]

Lat. An end; a fine; a boundary or terminus; a limit Also in L. Lat., a fine (q. v Source: Black’s Law […]

To make or pay a flne. Bract. 106 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In old English lnw. The king’s fines. Fines formerly payable to the king for any contempt or offense, as where one committed […]

An obsolete writ to inhibit officers of courts to take fines for fair pleading Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

An absolute necessity or inevitable constraint. Plowd. 94; 6 Coke, 11; Cowell Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Ad abolished writ for dis-annulling a fine levied of lands in ancient demesne to the prejudice of the lord. Reg. orig. 15 […]

An Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Dne who discovers and takes possession of another’s personal property, which wns then lost. Kincaid v. Eaton, 98 Mass. 139, 93 Am. […]

A decision npon a question of fact reached as the result of a judicial ex-amlnation or Investigation by a court, jury, referee, […]

A person employed in the economical management and application of public money; one skilled in the manage-ment of financial affairs Source: Black’s […]

To discover; to determine; to as-certaln and declare. To announce a conclu-sion, as the result of judlcial investigation, u]>on a dlsputed fact […]

A final or con-clusive agreement. In the process of “levying a fine,” this was a final agreement entered by the litigating parties […]