Sax. In old records. A field. Spelman; CowelL

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Sax. In England. A down or champaign ground, hilly and void of wood. CoweU; Blount

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In old English law. This term was used as descriptive of the con-dltion of an outlaw. Such persons were said to carry a wolf’s head, (caput lupinum;) for if caught alive they were to be brought to the king, and if they defended themselves they might be slain and their heads carried to the king, for they were no more to be ac-counted of than wolves. Termes de la Ley, “woolferthfod

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A term applied to a sale by auction, indicating that no price is reserved

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In pleading. Formal words used in pleadings by way of traverse, particularly by way of special trav-erse, (q. v..) importing an express denial of some matter of fact alleged in a previous pleading. Steph. Pl. 168, 169, 179, 180

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The effect of the Insertion of this clause in a lease for life is to give the tenant the right to cut timber on the estate, without making himself thereby liable to an action for waste

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This phrase, used in making a qualified indorsement of a

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In practice. A taking by way of reprisal; a taking or a reprisal of other goods, in lieu of those that were formerly taken and eloigned or withholden

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An apostate, or perfidious renegade. Cowell

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In prac-tice. The withdrawing of one of the twelve jurors from the box, with the result that, the jury heing now found to be incomplete, no further proceedings can he had in the cause. The withdrawing of a juror is always by the agreement of the parties, and is frequently done at the recommendation of the judge, where it is doubtful whether the action will lie; and in such case the consequence is that each party pays his own costs. It is, how-ever, no bar to a future action for the same cause. 2 Tidd, Pr. 861, 862; 1 Archb. Pr

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In prac-tice. The withdrawing by a plaintiff of the nisi prius or trial record filed in a cause, just before the trial is entered upon, for the pur-pose of preventing tbe cause from being tried. This may be done before tbe jury are sworn, and afterwards, by consent of the defend-ant’s counsel. 2 Tidd, Pr. 851; 1 Archb. Pr

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The chiefs of the Saxon lords or thanes, thelr nobles, and wise men

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In pleadlng. A technical phrase Indispensable in describ-ing a forcible entry in an indictment. No other word or circumlocution will answer the same purpose. Rex v. wilson, 8 Term R. 857

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OM. In Saxon law. The judgment of the county court, or other court of competent jurisdiction, on the title to property, real or personal. 1 Spence, Eq. Jur. 22

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The assembly of wlse men.” Thls was the great national councll or parliament of the Saxons in Eng-Jand, comprising the noblemen, high ecclesi-astics, and other great thanes of the king-dom, advising and aiding the king in the general administration of government

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Sax. A punishment, pain, pen-alty, mulct, or criminal flne. Cowell

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A taxation of the west Saxons, imposed by the public council of the kingdom

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In Saxon law. wise men; per* sons of information, especially in the laws; the klng’s advisers; members of the king’s council; the optima tes, or principal men of the kingdom. 1 Spence, Eq. Jur. 11, note

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Under Sts. 33 Hen. VIII. c. 8, and 1 Jac. I. c. 12, the offense of witchcraft, or supposed Intercourse with evil spirits, was punishable with death. These acts were not repealed till 1736. 4 Bl. Comm. 60, 61

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In Saxon law. Half a hide of land, or sixty acres

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The purgation from an offense by the oath of the requisite number of wlt-nesses

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The season be-tween 11th November and 23d April, which is excepted from the liberty of commoning in certain forests. St. 23 Car. II. c. 3

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The name given to a code /of maritime laws promulgated at wisby, then the capital of Gothland, in Sweden, in the latter part of the thirteenth century. This compilation resembled the lawa of oleron in many respects, and was early adopted, as a system of sea laws, by tbe com-mercial nations of Northern Europe. It

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A royal forest founded by Henry VIII

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An occasional circuit appointed for the trial of prisoners, in England, and in some cases of civil causes, between Michaelihae and Hilary terms

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