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1. The established order of the division of time into years, months, weeks, and days; or a systematized enumera-tion of such arrangement; […]

A term used vulgarly, and occasionally in judicial proceedings nud law reports, to designate a jail or prison, partic-uarly a town or […]

A causeway, or common hard-way, maintained and repnir-ed with stones and rubbish Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In old French law. -A list of grievances prepared for deputies in the states-general. A petition for the redress of griev-ances enumerated […]

An English statute for enabling the court of chancery to award dam-ages. 21 & 22 Vict. c. 27 Source: Black's Law Dictionary […]

AR. In the Roman law. A cognomen in the Gens Julia, whlch was nssumed by the successors of Julius. Tayl. Civil Law, […]

Lat. other; another; the rest Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Lat. It falls, abates, fails, ends, ceases. See Cadbbe Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

UA. In the clvil and old common law. Kept for cuttiug; lntended or used to be cut. A term applled to wood […]

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

The name of a Turkish clvil mag-lstrate Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A dead human body; a corpse. Cadaver nullius in bonis, no one can have a right of property in a corpse. 3 […]

Lat To end; cease; fail. As in the phrases eadit actio, (or breve,) the actlon (or writ) fails; eadit assisa, the assise […]

In Spanish lnw. An official statement of the quantity and value of real property in any district, made for the pur-pose of […]

In French law. An offldal statement of the quantity and value of realty made for purposes of taxatlon; same as cadastre, (q. […]

Letters is-sued aud signed by the kings of France, and countersigned by a secretary of state, author-izing the imprisonment of a person. […]

In Spanish-American law. Property entailed on the caciques, or heads of Indian villages, • and their descendants. Schm. Civil Lnw, 309 Source: […]

Brush-wood, or more prop-erly windfall-wood Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

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

The advisory board or coun-cil of a king or other chief executive. In the government of the United States the cabinet is […]

In English law. A private and confidential assembly of the most considerable ministers of state, to con-cert measures for the administration of […]

In Spanish law. An allotment of land acquired hy conquest, to a horse soldier. It was a strip one hundred feet wide […]

In Spanish law. A knight. So called on account of its being more honorable to go on horseback (d caballo) than on […]

In French commercial law. A factor or broker Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Pertaining to a horse. It was a feudal tenure of lands, the tenant furnishing a horseman suitably equipped in time of- war, […]