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Lat. In the civil law. Cog-nates ; relations by the mother’s side. 2 Bl. Comm. 235. Relations In the llne of the […]

one who is a joint executor with one or more others Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In English law. A principal officer of the royal establishment, next under the controller, who, in the counting-house nnd elsewhere, had a […]

The act of purchasing the whole quantity of any commodity, wharton Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Compulsion; force; duress. It may be either actual, (direct or positive,) where physical force is put upon a man to compel him […]

In the Roman law. A codicil; an informal and inferior kind of will, in use among the Romans Source: Black's Law Dictionary […]

Mutual purchase, one of the modes in which marriage was contracted among the Romans. The man and the woman delivered to each […]

Lat A code or collection of laws; particularly the Code of Justinian. Also a roll or volume, and a book written on […]

A testamentary dlsposition subsequent to a will, and by which the will is altered, explained, added to, subtracted from, or confirmed by […]

A boatman; a cockswain. Cowell Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A collection or compendium of laws. A complete system of positive law. scientifically arranged, and promulgated hy leglslatlve authority. Johnson v. Harrison, […]

In English law. A seal be-longlng to the custom-house, or rather a scroll of parchment, sealed and dellvered by the officers of […]

A name which used to be given to the judicial committee of the privy council, the council-room belng built on the old […]

Heraldic ensigns, introduced by Richard I. from the Holy Land, where they were first invented, originally they were painted on the shields […]

In med-ical jurisprudence. A method of sernm-diag-nosis of insanity from haemolysis (breaking up of the red corpuscles of the blood) by ln-Jectlons […]

The edge or margin of a country bounding on the sea. It is held that the term includes small islands and reefs […]

In English law. A body of officers and men raised and equipped by the commissioners of the admiralty for the defense of […]

In French law. An un-lawful agreement among several persons not to do a thing except on some conditions agreed upon; particularly, industrial […]

one of two or more os-signees of the same subject-matter Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A uniting or combining together of persons; a conspiracy. 0 Coke, 56 Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A species of promissory note, formerly in use in the port of London, containing the phrase “value received in coals.” By the […]

An assistant, helper, or oily; particularly a person appointed to as-sist a bishop who from age or infirmity is unable to perform […]

one who is a Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

or CLIPEUS. In old English law. A shield; metaphorically one of a no-ble family. Cigpei prostrati, noble families extinct Mat Paris, 463 […]

Coach is a generic term. It is a kind of carriage, and is distinguished from other vehicles, chiefly, as being a covered […]