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The executioner; hangman; he that executes the extreme penalty of the law Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

To entice, to corrupt, and, when used of a woman, to seduce, origl-nally, the term had a limited signification, meaning to entice […]

The extinction of life; tbe de-parture of the soul from the body; defined by physicians as a total stoppage of the cir-cu […]

In Scotch law. A state of sickness which ends in death. Ersk. Inst 3, 8, 95 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed […]

To traffic; to transact business; to trade. Makers of an accommodation note are deemed dealers wlth whoever discounts it. Vernon v. Manhattan […]

In English ecclesiastical law. An ecclesiastical dignitary who presides over the chapter of a cathedral, and is next in rank to the […]

A man that is born deaf, dumb, and blind is looked upon by the law as in the same state with an […]

In old English law. To discharge from being forest. To free from forest laws Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In old European law. A profession of irreconcilable hatred till a person is revenged even by the death of his enemy Source: […]

In Scotch law. The part remaining over beyond the shares se-cured to the wldow and children by law. of this the testator […]

A future use Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

This term is applied to persons other than the officers, agents, or em-ployes of a rallroad company who are per-mitted by the […]

A mortgage; mortuum vadium Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In English law. A rent payable on a mining lease in addltlon to a royalty, so called because it is payable al-though […]

A corpse. The body of a human being, deprived of life, but not yet en-tirely disintegrated. Meads v. Dougherty County, 98 Ga. […]

Letters which the postal department has not been able to deliver to the persons for whom they were intended. They are sent […]

A writ that lay where a man had a day in any action to appear in proper person, and the king at […]

ln ecclesiastical law. A minister or servant In the church, whose office is Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

From the neighborhood, or vicinage. 3 Bl. Comm. 360. A term ap-plled to a Jury Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

writ of warranty of charter. A writ which lay for him who was enfeoffed, with clause of war-ranty, [in the charter of […]

Of the signification of words. An important title of the Digests or Pandects, (Dig. 50, 16.) consisting entirely of definitions of words-and […]

writ of (or for) removing lay force. A writ whlch lay where two parsons contended for a church, and one of them […]

A writ to inspect the body, where a woman feigns to be pregnant, to see whether she is with child. It lies […]

Word for word. Bract fol. 138b. Literally, from word to word Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A writ which lay where a man’s wife had been ravished and carried away. A specles of writ of trespass. Reg. orig. […]