Time to recover “cool blood’* after severe excitement or provocation; time for the mind to become so calm and sedate as that it is supposed to contemplate, comprehend, and coolly act with reference to the consequences likely to ensue. Banes v. State, 10 Tex. App. 447; May v. People, 8 Colo. 210, 6 Pac. 816; Keiser v. Smith, 71 Ala. 481, 46 Am. Rep. 342; Jones v. State, 33 Tex. Cr. R. 492, 26 S. W. 1082, 47 Am. St. Rep. 46
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A joint obligor; one bound jointly with another or others in a bond or obligation
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In the law of homicide. Calmness or tranquillity; the undisturbed possession of one’s faculties and reuson ; the absence of violent passion, fury, or uncon-trollable excitement
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In ecclesiastical law. The general assembly of the clergy to con-suR upon ecclesiastical matters
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A naval force, under the com-mand of an officer appointed by government, for the protection of merchant-ships and oth-ers, during the whole voyage, or such part of it as is known to require such protection. Marsh. Ins. b. 1, c. 9, S 5; Park, Ins. 388; Peake, Add. Cas. 143n; 2 H. Bl. 551
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Such as is sufficient to establish the proposition in ques-tlon, beyond hesltation, amblguity, or reason-able doubt in an unprejudiced mind. Evans v. Rugee, 57 wis. 623, 16 N. W. 49; French v. Day, 89 Me. 441, 36 Ati. 909; ward v. waterman, 85 Cal. 488, 24 Pac. 930; wlnston v. Burnell, 44 Kan. 367, 24 Pac. 477, 21 Am. St Rep. 289
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A tenure by which a teu-ant was bound to provide meat and drink for his lord at least once in the year. CowelL
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This term has a definite signification in law, and means that a judg-ment of final condemnation has been pronounced against the accused. Gallagher v. State, 10 Tex. App. 469
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In practice. In a geuer-al sense, the result of a criminal trial which ends iu a judgment or seutence that the pris-oner is guilty as charged
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Certain coun-sel, not less than six in number, appoiuted by the lord chancellor, for the purpose of as-sisting the court of chancery, or any judge thereof, with thelr opinion in matters of title and conveyancing. Mozley & whitley
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In the civil lnw. Tbe name of a species of slander or injury uttered in public, and which churged some one with some act contra bonos mores
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one whose business it is to draw deeds, bonds, mortgages, wills, writs, or other legal papers, or to examine tl-tles to real estate. 14 St.-at Large, 118
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A term Including both the science and act of transferring titles to real estate from one mah to another
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To pass or transmit the title to property from one to another; to transfer property or the title to property by deed , or Instrument under seat
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The transposition of the subject and predlcate in a proposition, as: “Everything is good in its place.” Converse, “Nothing is good which is not in its place.” wharton
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In equity. The trans-formation of one species of property into an-other, as money into land or land into money; or, more particularly, a fiction of law, by which equity assumes that such a transformation has taken place (contrary to the fact) when it is rendered necessary by the equities of the case,—as to carry Into effect the directions of a will or settlement,—and by which the property so dealt with becomes invested with the properties aud attributes of that Into which it is supposed to have been converted. Seymour v. Freer, 8 wall. 214, 19 L. Ed. 306; Uaward v. Peuvey, 128 111. 430, 21 N. E. 503, 15 Am. St. Rep. 120
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one who is in the hab-lt of being in a particular place is said to be conversant there. Barnes, 162. Acquainted; familiar
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Manner of living; habits of life; conduct; as in the phrase “chaste life and conversation.” Bradshaw v. People, 153 111. 156, 38 N. E. 652. “Crimlnal conversatlon” means seduction of another man’s wlfe, considered jis an actionable in-jury to the husbnnd. Prettyman v. william-son, 1 Pennewill (Del.) 224, 39 Atl. 731; Crocker v. Crocker, 98 Fed. 702
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In ecdesl-astical law. That whlch conslsts of regular clerks, professing some order or religion; or of dean and chapter; or other societies of spiritual men
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Lat A coming together; a convention or assembly. Conventus magna-turn vel procerum (the assembly of chief men or peers) was one of the names of the Engllsh parliament. 1 BL Comm. 148
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The name of a writ for the breach of any covenant in writing, whether real or personal. Reg. orig. 115; Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 145
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This name is sometimes given to compacts or treaties with for
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