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A plow-man; a farmer of ara-ble land

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

In old English law. A plow of land; a plow-land; as much land as could be tilled with one plow, whis-haw

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

In feudal law. To make oath in the church or some other holy place. All oaths were made in the church upon the rel-ics of saints, according to the Ripuarian laws. Cowell; Spelman

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

Plow-lands. Land fit for the plow. Denoting the character of land, rath-er than its condition. Spelman

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

Rights which indl-vlduals have to the use of the sea and rivers, for the purpose of fishing and navigation, and also to the soil in the sea and rivers

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

They plowed. A term of feudal law, applied to those who held by the tenure of plowing and tilling the lord’s lands within the manor. Cowell

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

A civil law easement or servitude, consisting in the right of one whose house is surrounded with other buildings to cast waste water upon the adja-cent roofs or yards. Similar to the common

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A canal, ditch, or water-course running through marshy grounds. A mark or gauge placed in or on the banks of a running stream, to indicate the height of the water, was called “aquagaugium.” Spel-man

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

In the civil and old English law. water; sometimes a stream or water-course

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

In the civil law. A servitude which consists in the right to draw water from the fountain, pool, or spring of another. Inst. 2, 3, 2; Dig. 8, 8, 1, 1

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Fit for a husband; marriageable; a woman who has reached marriageable years

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Among the acts; among the recorded proceedings. In the civil law, this phrase is applied to appeals taken orally, in the presence of the judge, at the time of judgment or sentence

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

Belonging to; acces-sory or Incident to; adjunct, appended, or annexed to; answering to aceessorium in the civil law. 2 Steph. Comm. 30 note

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

In Spanish law. Approvement, or improvement and enjoyment of public lands. As applied to pueblo lands, it has particular reference to the commons, and includes not only the actual enjoyment of them but a right to such enjoy-ment. Hart v. Burnett, 15 Cal. 530, 566

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

In the civil law. A drlv-ing to, as of cattle to water. Dig. 8, 3, 1, 1

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That which belongs to something else; an adjunct; an append-age; something annexed to another thing more worthy as principal, and which posses as Incident to it, as a right of way or other easement to land; an out-house, barn, gar-den, or orchard, to a house or messuage. Meek v. Breckenridge, 29 ohio St 642; Harris v. Elliott, 10 Pet. 54, 9 L. Ed. 333; Humphreys v. McKissock, 140 U. S. 304, 11 Sup. Ct. 779, 35 L. Ed. 473; Farmer v. wa-ter Co., 56 Cal. 11

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

L. Fr. To approve or prove; to vouch. Kelham

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To take to one’s use or profit. Cowell

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

Notes indorsed by another person than the maker, for additional security.

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

By the common law, approvement is said to he a species of confession, aud incident to the arraignment of a prisoner indicted for treason or felony, who confesses the fact before plea pleaded, and appeals or accuses others, his accomplices in the same crime, in order to obtain his own pardon. In this case he is called an “ap-prover,” or “prover,” “prohator,” and the party appealed or accused is called the “ap-pellee.” Such approvement can only be in capital offenses, and it is. as it were, equlva-lent to an Indictment, since the appellee is equally called upon to answer it. Gray v. People. 26 111. 344: whiskey Cases, 99 T’. S. 599. 25 L. Ed. 399; State v. Graham, 41 N. J. Law, 15, 32 Am. Rep. 174

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

The act of a judge or magistrate in sanctioning and accepting as satisfactory a bond, security, or other in-strumeut which is required by law to pass his inspection and receive his approbation before it becomes operative

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

To take to one’s proper and separate use. To improve; to enhance the value or profits of anything. To inclose and cultivate common or waste land

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

The act of appro-printiug or setting apart; prescribing the destination of a thing; designating the use or application of a fund

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

one who makes an appropriation; as, an appropriator of wa-ter. Lux v. Haggin, 69 Cal. 255, 10 Pac. 736

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

In

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