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In old records. A loan or advance of money upon credit. Cowell Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Fr. The road wherein every man goes; the king's highway Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In old Scotch law. A chief dwelling or mansion house Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In old French law. The privllege or prerogative of the eldest A pro-vincial term derived from chemier, (q. v.) Guyot, Inst Source: […]

In old French law. The eldest born. A term used in Poitoh nnd other places. Guyot, Inst Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd […]

The old Scotch form of ex-chequer Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In Anglo-Norman law. Were or weregild; the price of the head or person, (capitis pretium Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A kind of tenure men-tioned in a patent of 35 Edw. III. Cowell; Blount Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Swindling; defrauding. “Deceitful practices in defrauding or endeavoring to defraud another of his known right, by some willful device, contrary to the […]

An lnstru-ment of sale of personalty conveying the title of the property to the mortgagee with terms of defeasance; and, if the […]

A homicide com-mltted in the heat of an affray and while under the influence of passion; it is thus dis-tinguished from chance-medley, […]

Purity; continence. That virtue which prevents the unlawful inter-course of the sexes. Also the state of purity or abstinence from unlawful sexual […]

An article of personal prop-erty; any species of property not amounting to a freehold or fee in land. People v. Hol-brook, 13 […]

(For return-ing the charters.) An ancient writ which lay against one who had charters of feoffment intrusted to his keeping and refused […]

In old European law. A keeper of records or public iustru-ments; a chartulary; a registrar. Spelman Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed […]

A ship hired or freighted; a ship which is the subject-matter of a charter-party Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In mercantile law. One who charters (i. e., hires or engages) a ves-sel for a voyage; a freighter. 2 Steph. Comm. 184; […]

otherwise called “book-land,” is property held by deed under certain rents and free services. It, In effect, differs nothing from the free […]

A contract by which an entire ship, or some principal part thereof, is let to a merchant for the convey-ance of goods […]

Fr. In French ma-rine law. A charter-party Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Formerly a con-vent of Carthusian monks in London; now a college founded and endowed by Thomas Sutton. Tbe governors of the charter-house […]

The char-ters (grants) of libertles. These are Magna Charta and Charta de Foresta Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Fr. A chart, or plan, which mariners use at sea Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

The word “chart,” as used in the copyright law, does not Include sheets of paper exhibiting tabulated or methodically arranged information. Taylor […]

In old English law. A Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)