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In the civil law. A theft (furtum) was called “oonceptum," when the thing stolen was searched for, and found upon some person […]

Fr. In French law. To grant See Concession Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Lat. I grant A word nsed in old Anglo-Saxon grants, and in statutes merchant Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In Irish practice. The payment of wages in land, the rent being work-ed out in labor at a money valuation, whar-ton Source: […]

To hide; secrete; withhold from the knowledge of others Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Fr. A count or earl. In the ancient French law, the comte was an officer having jurisdiction over a particular district or […]

In Spanlsh law. with (or in) good faith Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Lat. To compute, reckon, or account. Used in the phrases insimul computassent, “they reckoned together," (see Inbimto, 😉 plene computavit, “he has […]

The act of comput-ing, numbering, reckoning, or estimating Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Constraint; objective necessity. Forcible inducement to the corn-mission of an act. Navigation Co. v. Brown, 100 Pa. 346; U. S. v. Kimball […]

one of several neigh-bors of a person accused of a crime, or charged as a defendant in a eivll action, who appeared […]

Fr. An account Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

ln Scotch law. An account-ing party Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

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

A submission to arbitration Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A surreptitious printing of another book-seller’s copy of a work, to make gain thereby, which was contrary to common law, and is […]

In the civil law. Chil-dren by a former marriage, (indlvidualiy called “privigni," or “privign#,") consider-ed relatively to each other. Thus, the son […]

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

In Spanlsh law. Purchase and sale Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Interest up-on Interest, i. e., when the Interest of a sum of money is added to the principal, and then bears Interest, […]

In Loulslana. The maker of a composition, generally called the “amicable compounder.” Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

The statute of ells and perch-es. The title of an English statute establish-lng a standard of measures. 1 Bl. Comm. 275 Source: […]

An agreement, made upon a sufficient consideration, between an insolvent or embarrassed debtor and hls creditors, whereby the latter, for the sake […]

Having the use of one’s limbs, or the ■power of bodily motion. Si fvit ita compos sui quod itincrare potuit de loco […]

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