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A tithing, composed of ten neighboring families. 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 13; 1 Bl. Comm. 114 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed […]

IS Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In old English law. A tithing or decennary; the preclnct of a frank* pledge; consisting of ten freeholders with thejr families. Spelman […]

A fraudulent and cheating mis-r epresen tat ion, artifice, or device, used by one or more persons to deceive and trick another, […]

(Ten such; or tea tales, jurors.) In practice. The name of a wrlt whlch Issues in England, where, on a trlal at […]

The act of behead-ing. A mode of capital punishment by cat-tlng off the head Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A deceased person; one who has lately died. Etymologically tbe word denotes a person who is dying, but it has come to […]

The ofiice, jurisdiction, ter-ritory, or command of a decanus, or dean. Spelman Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In eoolesiastioal and old European law. An officer having supervision over ten; a dean. A term applied not only to ecclesiastical, but […]

Tbe ten commandments given by God to Moses. The Jews called them the “Ten words,” hence the name Source: Black’s Law Dictionary […]

A deanery. Spelman Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A person to whom a debt is due; a creditor. 3 Bl. Comm. 18; Plowd. 543. Not used Source: Black’s Law Dictionary […]

one who owes a debt; be who may be compelled to pay a claim or de-mand Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed […]

L. Lat Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A sum of money due by certain and express agreement; as by bond for a determinate sum, a bill or note, a […]

A female debtor Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Something due, or owing; a debt Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

L. Lat. In old English law. Debts of the laity, or of lay persons. Debts recoverable in the civil courts were anciently […]

In the civil and old English law. A debtor Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A sum charged as due or owing. The term is used in book-keeping to denote the charging of a person or an […]

L. Lat. In Scotch law. Debts secured upon land. Ersk. Inst Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

He owes and de-tains. words anciently used in the original writ, (aud now, in English, in the plaintiff’s declaration,) in an action […]

(Lat. He owes and is used to.) where a man sues in a writ of right or to recover any right of […]

A certificate given by the collector of a port, under the United States customs laws, to the effect that an Importer of […]

A stock or fund representing money borrowed by a company or public body, in England, and charged on the whole or part […]