To poison. Not used to de-hcribe the act of one who administers a poison, but the action of the drug or poison itself
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GY. The science ot poisons; that department of medical science which treats of poisons, their effect, their recog-nition, their antidotes, and generally of the diagnosis and therapeutics of poisoning
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NT. A poison; a toxic agent; any substance capable of producing toxica-tlon or poisoning
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HIP. 1. In surveys of the public land of the United States, a “township” is a division of territory six miles square, con-taiuing thirty-six sections
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(Lat toxicum; Gr.toxikon.) In medical jurisprudence. Poisonous; having the character or producing tbe effects of a poison; referable to a poison; produced by or resulting from a poison
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In English law. originally, a vlll or tithing; but now a generic term, which comprehends under it the several spe-cies of cities, boroughs, and common towns. 1 Bl. Comm. 114
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L. Fr. All one sound; sounding the same; idem sonans
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The act or service of towing shlps and vessels, usually by means of a small steamer called a “tug.” That whicb is given for towing ships in rivers
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L. Fr. Always ready. The emphatic words of the old plea of tender; the defendant alleging that he has always been ready, and still is ready, to dis-charge the debt 3 Bl. Comm. 303; 2 Salk. 622
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In lnsurance law. To stop at a port If there be liberty granted hy the policy to touch, or to touch and stay, at an intermediate port on the passage, the better opinion now is that the Insured may trade there, when consistent with the object and the furtherance of the adventure, by breaking bulk, or by discharging and taking in cargo, provided it produces no unnecessary delay, nor enhances nor varies the risk. 3 Kent, Comm. 314
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Lat with all one’s mlght or power; with all hls mlght; very strenuously
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originally a nickname for the wild Irish in Ulster. Afterwards given to, and adopted hy, one of the two great parliamentary parties which have alternately governed Great Britain since the Revolution in 1688. wharton
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wrongful; of the nature of a tort. Formerly certain modes of conveyance (e. g., feoffments, fines, etc.) had tbd effect of passlng not merely the estate of the person maklng the conveyance, but the whole fee-simple, to the injury of the person really entitled to the fee; and they were hence call; ed “tortious conveyances.” Lltt. 5 611; Co, Litt. 271b, n.'1; 330b, n. 1. But this opera-tlon has been taken away. Sweet. •
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In old criminal law. The question; the inflictlon of vlolent bodlly palii upon a person, by means of the rack, wheels or other englne, under judicial sanction nnd superintendence, in connection with the in-terrogatlon or examination of the person, a4
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In Scotch law. An an-nual rent out of a house bullt in a burgh, whlshaw. A duty which, from the act 1551, c. 10. appears to have been due from cer-tain lands in Edinburgh, the nature of which is not now known. Bell
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