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That age which fol-lows puberty aud precedes the age of majors ity.. It commences for males at 14, and for females at […]

To accept, appropriate, choose, or select; to make that one’s own (property or act) which was not so originally Source: Black’s Law […]

In old English law. To annul;, to make void; to reduce to noth* ing; to treat as nothiug; to hold as or […]

In the civil law. The subscription of a name or signature to an in-strument. Cod. 4, 19, 5, 7 Source: Black’s Law […]

The daughter of a great-great-granddaughter. Calvin Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Annulled, cancelled, mnde void. 28 Hen. VIII Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

The reduction of property of lands or tenements to mort-main, in the feudal customs Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

The son of a great-great-grandson. Calvin Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A triple or threefold warning, given, in old times, to a prisoner standing mute, before he was subjected to the peine forte […]

In ecclesiastical law, this is the lightest form of punishment, con-slstlng in a reprimand and warning adinin-lstered by the judge to the […]

A writ of execution upon a right of presentation to a benefice being recovered in quare impedit, addressed to the bishop or […]

A writ for associating certain persons, as knights and other gentlemen of the county, to jus-tlces of assize on the circuit Reg. […]

To allow, receive, or take; to suffer one to enter; to give possession; to license. Gregory v. United States, 17 Blatchf. 325, […]

In English law. The act of giving possession of a copyhold es-tate. It is of three kinds: (1) Upon a voluntary grant […]

The order of a competent court or magistrate that a person accused of crime be discharged from actual custody upon the taking […]

In European lnw. An usher. Spelman Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Proper to be received. As applied to evidence, the term means that it is of such a character that the court or […]

Ia evidence. A volun-tary acknowledgment, confession, or conces-sion of the existence of a fact or the truth of au allegation made by […]

L. Lat Admiralty; the admiralty, or court of admiralty Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A court exercising jurls-diction over maritlme causes, both civil and criminal, and marine affairs, commerce and navigation, controversies arising out of acts […]

Lat He has ad Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In European law. An officer who presided over the admiralitas, or collegium ammiralitatis. Locc. de Jur. Mar. lib. 2, c. 2, I […]

Pertaining to administration. Particularly, having the char-acter of executive or ministerial action. In this sense, administrative functions or acts are distinguished from […]

A female who administers, or to whom letters of admlnlstra-tlon have been granted Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

The management nnd settlement of the es-tate of an intestate, or of a testator who has Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed […]