The public wealth of a state or government, considered either statically
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In French law. An exception or plea founded on law, which, without entering lnto the merits of the actlon, shows that the piaintiiE has no rigbt to bring it, either because the time dur-lng which it ought to have been brought has elapsed, which is called “prescription,” or that there has been a compromise, accord and satisfaction, or any other cause which has destroyed the right of action which once subsisted. Poth. Proc. Civile, pt 1, c. 2, $ 2, art. 2
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Definitive; terminating; completed ; last. In its use in jurisprudence, this word is generally contrasted with “interlocu-tory.” Johnson v. New York, 48 Hun, 620, 1 N. Y. Supp. 254; Garrison v. Dpugherty, 18 S. C. 488; Rondeau v. Beaumette, ‘4 Minn. 224 (Gil. 163); Blanding v. Sayles, 23 R. I. 226, 49 AU 992
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A young mare; a female colt An indictment charging the theft of a “filly” is not sustained by proof oi the larceny of a “mare.” Lunsford v. State, J Tex. App. 448, 28 Am. Rep. 414
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Lat in old practice. A file; i. e., a thread or wire on which papers were strung, that being the ancient method >f filing
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To make full; to complete; to sat-isfy or fulfill; to possess and perform the duties of
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In old English law. A ferny or bracky ground: a place where fern grows. Co. Litt. 4b; Shep. Touch. 95
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To fix a bastard child on some one, as Its father. To declare whose child it is. 2 W. Bl. 1017
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The relation of a child to its parent; correlative to “paternity.”
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In old Engllsh practice. To file. Townsh. Pl. 67
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Brit. A name given to villeins in the laws of Hoel Ddn. Barring, obs. St 302
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An encounter, with blows or other personal violence, between two persons. See State v. Gladden, 73 N. C. 155; Carpen-ter v. People, 31 Colo. 284, 72 Pac. 1072; Coles v. New York Casualty Co., 87 App. Dlv. 41, 83 N.. Y. Supp. 1063
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An officer of the superior courts at westminster, whose duty it was to file the writs on Which he made process. There were fourteen filacers, and it was their duty to make out all orlglual process. Cow-ell; Blount. The office was abolished in 1837
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(I have caused to he made.) In practice. The name given to the return made by a sheriff or other officer to a writ of fieri facias, where he has collected the whole, or a part, of the sum directed to be levied. 2 Tidd, Pr. 1018. The return, os actually made, is expressed by the word “Satisfied” indorsed on the writ
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In English law. This was originally a tax or tribute, levied at ln-tervals by act of parliament, consisting of one-fifteenth of all the movable property of the subject or personalty in every city, town-ship, nnd borough. Under Edward III., the taxable property was assessed, and the value of its fifteenth part (then about £29,000) was recorded in the exchequer, whence the tax, levied dn that valuation, continued to be called a “fifteenth,” although, as the wealth of the kingdom increased, the name ceased to be an accurate designation of the propor-tion of the tax to the value taxed. See 1 Bl. Comm. 309
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(That you cause.to be made.) in practice. A writ of execution commanding the sheriff to levy and make the amount of a Judgment from the goods and chattels of the judgment debtor
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In Spanish law. Sequestra-, tion. This is allowed in six cases by tlie Spanish law w’here the title to property is’ in dispute. Las Partidas, pt 3, tit 3, 1. 1
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Ancient Gothic courts of an inferior jurisdiction, so called
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An ancient custom in Eng-land, by which officers of the forest and bailiffs of hundreds had the right to compel the hundred to furnish them with ale. Tom-lins
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An officer elected, in England, by the owners of a regulated pas-‘ ture to keep in order the fences, ditches, etc.,’ on the land, to regulate the times during which animals are to be admitted to the pasture, and generally to maintain nnd man-age the pasture subject to the instructions of the owners. (General Iudosure Act, 1845, | 118.) Sweet
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In Spanish lnw. A sequestrator; a persou in whose hands a thlng in dispute is judicially deposited; a receiver. Las Par-* tidas, pt. 3, tit. 9, 1. 1
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This term might well be con-; sidered as definite and certain a description as “close,” and might be used in law; but it is not a usual description in legal proceedings. 1 Chit Gen. Pr. 160
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