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Time to recover “cool blood'* after severe excitement or provocation; time for the mind to become so calm and sedate as that […]

In economics. The Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A joint obligor; one bound jointly with another or others in a bond or obligation Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In the law of homicide. Calmness or tranquillity; the undisturbed possession of one’s faculties and reuson ; the absence of violent passion, […]

In ecclesiastical law. The general assembly of the clergy to con-suR upon ecclesiastical matters Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

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 […]

Such as is sufficient to establish the proposition in ques-tlon, beyond hesltation, amblguity, or reason-able doubt in an unprejudiced mind. Evans v. […]

A tenure by which a teu-ant was bound to provide meat and drink for his lord at least once in the year. […]

This term has a definite signification in law, and means that a judg-ment of final condemnation has been pronounced against the accused. […]

In practice. In a geuer-al sense, the result of a criminal trial which ends iu a judgment or seutence that the pris-oner […]

Certain coun-sel, not less than six in number, appoiuted by the lord chancellor, for the purpose of as-sisting the court of chancery, […]

In the civil lnw. Tbe name of a species of slander or injury uttered in public, and which churged some one with […]

one whose business it is to draw deeds, bonds, mortgages, wills, writs, or other legal papers, or to examine tl-tles to real […]

A term Including both the science and act of transferring titles to real estate from one mah to another Source: Black's Law […]

To pass or transmit the title to property from one to another; to transfer property or the title to property by deed […]

In pleading. Intro* ductlon or inducement Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

The transposition of the subject and predlcate in a proposition, as: “Everything is good in its place.” Converse, “Nothing is good which […]

In equity. The trans-formation of one species of property into an-other, as money into land or land into money; or, more particularly, […]

one who is in the hab-lt of being in a particular place is said to be conversant there. Barnes, 162. Acquainted; familiar […]

Manner of living; habits of life; conduct; as in the phrase "chaste life and conversation.” Bradshaw v. People, 153 111. 156, 38 […]

In ecdesl-astical law. That whlch conslsts of regular clerks, professing some order or religion; or of dean and chapter; or other societies […]

Lat A coming together; a convention or assembly. Conventus magna-turn vel procerum (the assembly of chief men or peers) was one of […]

The name of a writ for the breach of any covenant in writing, whether real or personal. Reg. orig. 115; Fitzh. Nat. […]

This name is sometimes given to compacts or treaties with for Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In Roman law. An Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)