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one whose property has been seized and sold under a confiscation act, e. g., for unpaid taxes. See Brent v. New orleans, […]

Capable of belng confiscated or suitable for confiscatlon; liable to forfeiture. Camp v. Lockwood, 1 Dall. (Pa.) 393, 1 L. Ed. 194 […]

In civll and old English law.. To confiscate; to claim for or bring into the fisc, or treasury. Bract fol. 150 Source: […]

The grantee in a deed of confirmation Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

The grantor in a deed of confirmation Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Lat Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A contract by which that which was Infirm, imperfect, or subject to be avoided is made firm and unavoidable Source: Black's Law […]

To complete or establish that which was imperfect or uncertain; to ratify what has been done without authority or insufficiently. Boggs ▼. […]

The conveyance of an estate, or the communication of a right that one bath in or unto lands or tenements, to another […]

Intrusted with the confidence of another or with his secret af-falrs or purposes; intended to be held in confidence or kept secret […]

Confinement may be by either a moral or a physical restraint, by threats of violence with a present force, or by physical […]

Lat in the Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Trust; reliance: ground of trust In the construction of wills, this Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

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

An ecclesiastic who receives auricular confessions of sins from persons under hls spiritual charge, and pronounces absolution upon them. The secrets of […]

To admit the truth of a charge or accusation. Usually spoken of charges of tortions or criminal conduct Source: Black's Law Dictionary […]

Lat. A confession. Con-fessto in judicio, a confession made in or before a court Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A league or corn-pact for mutual support, particularly of princes, nations, or states. Such was the colonial government during the Revolution Source: […]

A meeting of several persons for deliberation, for the interchange of opinion, or for the removal of differences or disputes. Thus, a […]

The making and completion of a written instrument 5 Coke, 1 Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In oriminal law Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In old English law. A woman at fourteen or fifteen years of age may take charge of her house and receivo cone […]

In Roman law. A sacrificial rite resorted to by marrying persons of high patrician or priestly degree, for the purpose of clothing […]

In the Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A thing hired Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)