An aristocracy of property; government by men of property who are possessed of a certain income
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A place tilled or cultivated; land under cultivation, as opposed to lands lying fallow or in pasture
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A servlce by which ten* ants were bound to carry timber felled from the woods to the lord’s house. CowelL
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LaL A civil-law term for building material; timber
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As colloquially applied to a note, bond, mortgage, lease, etc., thls term signl-fies that the clauses providing the credit-or’s remedy in case of default (as, by fore-closure, execution, dlstress, etc.) are summary and stringent
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Lat in the dv-il law. The name of a servitude which is the right of inserting a beam or timber from the wall of one house Into that of a neigh-boring house, in order that it may rest on the latter, and that the wall of the latter may bear this weight wharton. See Dig. 8, 2, 36
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A liquid measure, containing the third part of a pipe, or forty-two gallons
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In old records. A close or in-closure; a croft Cowell
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Span. A time of inability; a time when the person is not able to pay his debts, (when, for instance, he may not alienate property to the prejudice of his creditors.) The term is used In Louisiana. Brown v. Kenner, 8 Mart. O. S. (La.) 270; Thorn v. Morgan, 4 Mart. N. S. (La.) 292, 16 Am. Dec. 173
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The ebb and flow of the sea. See Baird v. Campbell, 67 App. Div. 104, 73 N. Y. Supp. 617
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In oontraots. A slip of paper containing a certificate that the person to whom it is issued, or the holder, is en-titled to some right or privilege thereln mentioned or described; such, for example, are rallroad tickets, theater tickets, pawn tickets
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In order that a river may be “tidal" at a given spot, it may not be necessary that the water should be salt, but the spot must he one where the tide, in the ordl-nary and regular course of things, flows and reflows. 8 Q. B. Div. 630
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In old English law. The custom of giving entertainments to a sheriff, etc., for three nights
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A colloquial expression for credit or trust; credit given for goods purchased
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A woodward, or per-son that looks after a wood
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Within the meaning of a criminal statute, “thrusting" is not neces-sarily an attack with a pointed weapon; it means pushing or driving with force, whether the point of the weapon be sharp or not State v. Lowry, 33 La. Ann. 1224
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In Saxon and old English law. The third part of a county; a division of a county consisting of three or more hundreds. Cowell. Corrupted to the modern “riding," which is still used in Yorkshire. 1 Bl. Comm. 116
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This word is sometimes equivalent to “over;" as in a statute in ref-erence to laying out a road “through" certain grounds. Hyde Park v. Oakwoods Cemetery Ass’n, 119 IlL 147, 7 N. E. 627
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A gold coin of the United States, of the value of three
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Vassals, but not of the lowest degree; those who held lands of the chief lord
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In criminal law. A menace; a declaration of one’s purpose or intention to work injury to the person, property, or rights of another
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