FEE FUND. A fund in the, Euglish court of chancery into which tbe fees
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Lat. In the civil law. The conditlon or quallty of a suus lucres, or prop-er heir. Hallifax, Clvll Law, b. 2, c. 9, no, 11; Calvin
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Those persons who by hls au-thority follow or attend an ambassador or other publlc minister
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Suicide is the willful and vol-untary act of a person who understands the physical nature of the act, and intends by it to accomplish the result of self-destruction. Nimick v. Mutual Life Ins. Co., 10 Am. Law Reg. (N. S.) 101, Fed. Cas. No. 10,266
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In old Englisb law. Tbe witnesses or followers of the plaintiff. 3 Bl. Comm. 295. See Secta
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Lat. In the civil law. one's own heirs; proper heirs. Inst 2, 19, 2
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Lat of hls own right! possessing full social and civil rights; not under any legal disability, or the power of another, or guardianship
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Lat of lts own kind or class; i. e., the only one ot its own kind; pecullar
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Lat. Suggestion or representation of that which is false; false representation. To recite in a deed that a will was duly executed, when it was not, ia suggestio falsi; and to conceal from the heir that the wlll was not duly executed is suppressio veri. 1 P. wms. 240
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In practice. A statement, formally entered on the record, of some fact or circumstance which will materially affect the further proceedings in the cause, or which is necessary to be brought to the knowledge of the court in order to its right disposition of the action, but which, for some reason, cannot be pleaded. Thus, if one of the parties dies after issue and be
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A vote; the act of voting; the right or privilege of casting a vote at public elections. The last is the meaning of the term in such phrases as “the extension of the suffrage,” “universal suffrage.” etc. See Spitzer v. Fulton, 33 Misc. Rep. 257, 68 N. Y. Supp. 660
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Lat. In Roman law. A vote; the right of voting in the assemblies of the people
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As to sufficient “Consideration” and “Evidence,” see those titles
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Bishops who In former times were appointcd to supply the place of others during their absence on embassies or other business were so termed. They were' consecrated as other bishops were, and were anciently called “chore piscftpi” or “bishops of the county," in contradistinction to the regular bishops of the city or see. The practice of creating suffragan bishops, after hav-ing long been discontinued, wns recently revived ; aud such bishops are now permanent-ly “assistant” to the bishops. Brown
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Lat. A grant or sufferance of peace or truce
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A recovery was effected by the party wishing te couvey the land suffering a fictitious actlon to be brought agaiust hlm by the party to whom the laud was to be conveyed, (the de-mandant,) and allowing the demandant to recover a judgment against him for the land in question. The vendor, or conveying par-ty, in thus assisting or permitting the de-mandant so to recover a judgment against him, was thence technically said to “suffer a recovery." Brown
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To suffer an act to be done, by a iierson who cau prevent it, is to permit or consent to it; to approve of it, and not to hinder it. It impiles a willingness of the mind. See In re Rome Planing Mill (C. C.) 96 Fed. 815; wilson v. Nelson, 183 II. S. 191, 22 Sup. Ct. 74. 46 L. Ed. 147; Selleck v. Selleck, 19 Conn. 505; Gregory v. U. S., 10 Fed. Cas. 1197; In re Thomas (D. C.) 103 Fed. 274
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Toleration; negative permission by not forbidding; passive con-sent ; license implied from the omission or neglect to enforce an adverse right
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In Hindu law. The best; the fore-court of a house; the chief seat of gov-ernment, contradistinguished from “mofus-sil" or interior of the country; the presidency. wharton
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In Spanish law. A small lot of grouud. Particularly, such a lot within the limits of a city or .town used for cultivation or planting as a garden, vineyard or orchard. Building lots in towns aud cities are called “solares.” Hart v. Burnett, 15 Cal. 554
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In Scotch law. The whole lands astricted to a mill; that is, the lands of whicb the tenants are obliged to send their grain to that mil). Bell
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e estate ot a deceased person, corn-prising all kinds of property owned or claimed hy him, as well as hls debts and obllga-tions, and considered as a legal entity (ac* cording to the notion of the Roman law) for certain purposes, such as collecting assets and paying debts. See Davenport v. Adler, 52 La. Ann. 263, 26 South. 836; Adams v. Aker-lund, 168 111. 632, 48 N. E. 454; Quarles v. Clayton, 87 Tenn. 308, 10 S. W. 505, 3 L. R. A. 170; State v. Payne, 129 Mo. 468, 31 S. W. 797, 33 L. R. A. 576; Blake v. McCartney, 3 Fed. Cas. 596; In re Henden’s Estate, 52 Cal. 298
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one who succeeds to the rights or the place of another; particularly, the person or persons who constitute a corporation after the death or removal of those who preceded them as corporators
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