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Aiding; auxiliary; attendant npon; subordinate; a proceeding at-tendant upon or which aids another proceeding considered as principal. Steele v. Insurance Oo., 31 […]

In English law. A pres-tatlon or toll for every anchor cast from a ship in a port; and sometimes, though there be […]

In Engllsh law. Gentle-men of the Inns of court and chancery. In Gray’s Inn the society consists of benchers, ancients, barristers, and […]

A measure containing ten gallons Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A watch, conslst-ing of a small number of men. (from one to four,) kept constantly on deck while the vessel is riding […]

one who has preceded another in a direct line of descent; a lineal ascendant Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Relating to ancestors, or to what has been done by them; as homage anecstrel Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

To pronounce an-atheina upon; to pronounce accursed by ec-ciesiastical authority; to excommunicate Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In the civil law. Re-peated or doubled interest; compound Inter-est; usury. Cod. 4, 32, 1, 30 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed […]

The destruction of govern-ment; lawlessness; the absence of all pollt-Ical government; b.v extension, confusion in government. See Spies v. People, 122 III. […]

An ecclesiastical punish-ment by which a person is separated from the body of the church, aud forbidden all intercourse with the members […]

In medical jurispru-dence. Impotentia cceundi; frigidity; ln-capacity for sexual intercourse existing in either man or woman, and in the latter case sometimes […]

Qne who professes and advocates the doctrines of anarchy, q. v. And see Cerveny v. Chicago Dally News Co., 139 111. 345, […]

A register, inventory, or commentary Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In logic. Identity or similarity of proportion, where there is no precedent in point, in cases on the same sub-ject, lawyers have […]

In the civil law. An in-vestlgatlon of truth, interrogation of witnesses, and lnquiry made into any fact, especially by torture Source: Black’s […]

In medical jurisprudence. (1) Loss of sensatlon, or insensibility to paln, general or local, induced by the ad-ministration or application of certaiu […]

Fr. Year and day; a year and a day Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In feudal law. Year, day, and waste. A forfeiture of the lands to the crown incurred by the felony of the tenant, […]

In the Roman law. More; farther; more time. A word which the prse-tor pronounced in cases where there was any obscurity in […]

An ancient punishment for a blow given in a superior court; or for assaulting a judge sitting in the court. Source: Black’s […]

In Spanish-American law. A document issued to a claimant of land as a protection to him, until a survey can be ordered, […]

In the civil law. A Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

The effect, substance, or result; the total or aggregate sum. Hllburn v. Railroad Co., 23 Mont 229. 58 Pac. 551; Connelly v. […]

Lat. That you remove your hands. After office found, the king was entitled to the things forfeited, either lands or personal property; […]