In old English law. The shedding of blood; the mulct, fine, wife, or penalty imposed for the shed-ding of blood, which the king granted to many lords of manors. Cowell; Tomlins. See Bloodwit
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when this phrase is used in leases, conveyances, and other like deeds, or in agreements expressed in simple writing, it indicates the-conclusion or expiration of an agreed term of years specified in the deed or writing, such conclusion or expiration arising in the natural course of events, in contradistinction to the determination of the term by the acts of the parties or by some unexpected or unusual in-cident or other sudden event. Brown
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The running of a prescribed period of time to its end; expiration by lapse of time. Particularly applied to the terml-nation of a lease by the expiration of the term for which it was made
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In Turkish language. Mas-ter; a title of respect
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The working cause; that cause which produces effects or results; an intervening cause, which produces results which would not have come to pass except for its interposition, and for which, therefore, the person who set in motion the original chain of causes is not re-sponsible. Central Coal & Iron Co. v. Pearce (Ky.) 80 S. W, 450; Pullman Palace Car Co. ▼. Laack, 143 111. 242, 32 N. E. 285, 18 L. R. A. 215
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The result which an instrument between partles will produce in their relative rights, or which a statute will pro-duce .upon the exlsting law, as discovered from the language used, the forms employed, or other materials for construing it
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Personal estate or property. This word has been held to be more comprehensive than the word “goods,” as Including fixtures, which “goods” will not include. Bank v. Byram, 131 111. 92, 22 N. E. 842
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In old English law. Put forth or promulgated, when speaking of the pas-sage of a statute; and brought forth, or born, when speaking of the birth of a child
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within the meaning of a statute relative to the pow’ers and duties of guardians, this term comprehends not mere-ly the instruction received at school or col-lege, bnt the whole course of training, moral, intellectual, and physical. Education may be particularly directed to either the mental, moral, or physical powers and faculties, but in Its broadest and best sense it relates to them all. Mount Herman Boys’ School v. Gill, 145 Mass. 139, 13 N. E. 354; Cook v. State, 90 Tenn. 407, 16 S. >V. 471, 13 L. R. A. 183; Ruohs v. Backer, 6 Heisk. (Tenn.) 400, 19 Am. Rep. 598
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Thirteen constitutions or laws of this prince, found in most editions of the Corpus Juris Civilis, after the Novels. Being confined to matters of police in the provinces of the empire, they are of little use
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In the Roman law. An edict; a mandate, or ordinance. An ordinance, or law, enacted by the emperor without the senate; belonging to the class of const it ut tones principis. Inst. 1, 2, 6. An edict was a mere voluntary constitution of the emperor; differing from a rescript, in not being returned in the way of answer; and from a decree, in not being given in judgment; and from both, in not being founded npon solicitation. Tayl. Civil Law, 233
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A positive law promulgated by the sovereign of a country, and having reference either to the whole land or some of its divisions, but usually relating to affairs of state. It differs from a “public proclamation,” in that it enacts a new statute, and carries with it the authority of law
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In Scotch law. A citation published at the market-cross of Edinburgh, and pier and shore of Leith. Used against foreigners not within the king* dom, but having a landed estate there, and against natives out of the kingdom. Bell
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In Saxon law. The offense of hedge-breaking, obsolete
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In French marine law. The clerk of a ship.’ Emerig. Tr. des Ass. c. 11, s. 8, no. 2
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General; universal; as an ecumenical council. Groesbeeck v. Duns-comb, 41 How. Prac. (N. Y.) 344
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In medicine. That system followed by physicians who select thelr modes of practice and medicines from various schools, webster
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In medical Jurisprudence. The constant and senseless repetition of par-ticular words or phrases, recognized as a sign or symptom of insanity or of aphasia
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