A medical term, meaning the discovery of the source of a patient’s illness or the determination of tlie nature of his disease from a study of its symptoms. Said to be little more than a guess enlighten-ed by experience. Swan v. Railroad Co., 79 Hun, 612, 29 N. Y. Supp. 337
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L. Lat in old writs. An abbreviation of dilecto et fideli, (to his be-loved and faithful
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To shake hands in token of friendship; or to give up oneself to the power of another person
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In maritime law. The contract which takes place between the own-er of a ship, the captain, and the mariners, who agree that the voyage shall be for the benefit of all. The term is used in the ltal-lan law Emerig. Mar. Loans, j 5
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Lat. In Roman law. A di-vision of tbe as, consisting of ten uneiae; ten-twelfths, or five-sixths. 2 Bl. Comm. 462, note m
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To pass or be transferred from one person to another; to fall on, or accrue to, one person as the successor of an-other; as, a title, rights office, liability. The term is said to be pecullarly appropriate to the passing of an estate from a persou dying to a person living. Parr v. Parr, 1 Mylne
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The transfer or transi-tlon from one person to another of a right, liability, title, estate, or office. Francisco v. Aguirre, 94 Cal. 180, 29 Pac. 495; owen v. Insurance Co., 50 Hun, 455, 10 N. Y. Supp. 75
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A giver of lands or real es-tate by will; the maker of a will of lands; a testator
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Fr. Duty. It is used in the statute of 2 Ricb. II. c. 3, in the Bense of duties or customs
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A testamentary disposition of land or realty; a gift of real proi>erty by the last will and testament of the donor. Scbolie v. Scholle, 113 N. Y. 261, 21 N. E. 84; Fere^ bee v. Procter, 19 N. C. 440; Pratt v. Mc-Gbee, 17 S. C. 428; In re Fetrow’s Estate, 58 Pa. 427; Jenkins v. Tobin, 31 Ark. 306; In re Dailey’s Estate, 43 Misc. Rep. 552, 89 N. Y. Supp. 541
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The person to whom lands or other real property are devised or given by will. 1 Pow. Dev. c. 7
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CE. An Invention or contrivance; any result of; design; as in the phruse “gambling device,” which means a machine or contrivance of any kind for the playing of an unlawful game of chance or hazard. State v. Blackstone, 115 Mo. 424, 22 S. W. 370. Also, a plan or project; a scheme to trick or de-celve; a stratagem or artifice; as in the laws relating to fraud and cheating. State v. Smith, 82 Minn. 342, 85 N. W. 12. Also an emblem, pictorial representation, or distin-guishing mark or sign of any kind; as in the idws prohibiting the marking of ballots used in public elections with “ahy device.” Bax-ter v. Ellis, 111 N. C. 124, 15 S. E. 938, 17 L. R. Ai 382; owens v. State, 64 Tex. 509; Steele v. Calhoun, 61 Miss. 556
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An Instrument of torture, formerly used to extort confes-sions, etc It was t made of several irons, which were fastened to the neck and legs
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To deprive; to take away; to withdraw. Usually spoken of an authority, power, property, or title; as the estate is de-vested
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In insnranoo. Varying frtnn the: risks insured against, as described in the pollcy, without necessity or juat cause, after the risk has begun. 1 Phil. Ins. { 977, et seq.; 1 Arn. Ins. 415, et seq. Hostetter v. Park, 137 U. S. 30, 11 Sup. Ct. 1. 34 L. Ed. 568; wilkins v. Insurance Co., 30 ohlo St. 317, 27 Am. Rep. 455; Beli v. Insurance Co., 5 Rob. (La.) 445, 39 Am. Dec. 542; Audenreid v. Insurance Co., 60 N. Y. 484, 19 Am. Rep. 204; Crosby v. Fitch, 12 Conn. 420, 31 Am. Dec. 745; The Iroquois, 118 Fed. 1003, 55 O. 0. A. 497
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Lat He has wasted. The act of an executor or administrator in wasting the goods of the deceased; misman-agement of the estate by which a loss occurs ; a breach of trust or misappropriation of assets held in a fiduciary character; any violation or neglect of duty by an executor or administrator, involving loss to the de-cedent’s estate, which makes him ‘ personally responsible to helrs, creditors, or legatees. Clift v. white, 12 N. Y. 531; Beardsley v. Marsteller, 120 Ind. 319, 22 N. E. 315; Steel v. Holladay, 20 or. 70, 25 Pac. 69, 10 L. R. A. 670; Dawes v. Boylston, 9 Mass. 353, 6 Am. Dec. 72; McGlaughlin v. McGlaughlin, 43 W. Va. 226, 27 S. E. 378
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A writ, now obsolete, dlrected to the king’s escheators when any of the king’s tenants in capite dies, and when his son and heir dies within age and in the king’s custody, commanding the escheators, that by the oaths of twelve good and lawful men they shall inquire what lands or tenements by the death of the tenant have come to the king. Dyer, 360; Termes de la Ley
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wasteful use of the property of a deceased person, as for extravagant funeral or other unnecessary expenses. 2 Bl. Comm. 508
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They have wasted. A term applied in old English law to waste by executors and administrators, and to the process issued against them therefor. Cow* ell. See Devastavit
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