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In Freifch law- Acceptor of a bill for honor. Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In the civil and Scotch law’.- A release made by a creditor to hls debtor of his debt, without receiving any cppsideration. […]

IN. Fr. In Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Lat. In old pleading. To .accept. Acceptavit, he accepted. 2 Strange. 817. Non acceptavit, he did not accept. 4 Man. & G. […]

To receive with approval or satisfaction; to receive with intent to retain. Also, in the capacity of drawee of a bill, to […]

The taking and receiv-ing of anything in good part, and as it were a tacit agreement to a preceding act, which might […]

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The shortening ol the time for tbe vesting in possession of an expectant interest Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In French feudal law. A species of relief; a selgnoriul right due ou every Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

An original writ out of chancery, directed to the sheriff, for the removal of a replevin suit from a hundred court or […]

(Lat As if.) Townsh. Pl. 23, 27. These words frequently occur in old English statutes. Lord Bacon expounds their meaning in the […]

In its original meaning, an association formed for mutual improvement, or for the advancement of science or art; in later use, a […]

(From abut, q. v.) Com-nionly defined “the buttings and boundings of lands, east, west, north, and south, showing on what other lands, […]

(Lat And also.) words used to introduce the statement of the real cause of action, in those cases where it was necessary […]

To reach, to touch. In old law, the ends were said to abut, the sides to adjoin, Cro. Jac. 184. And see […]

TS. The ends of a bridge, of those parts of it which touch the land. Sussex County v. Strader, 18 N. J. […]

A condensed’ history of tbe title to land, consisting of a synopsis or summary of the material or op-erative portion of all […]

In statutory construction, an “absurdity” is not only that which is physically impossible, but also that whlch is morally so; and that […]

In French law. Keeping nn heir from possession; also tacit re* nunciution of a succession by an heir. Merl. Repert Source: Black’s […]

In old conveyancing. one of the parts of a fine, being an abstract of the writ of covenant, and the concord, naming […]

without impeachment of waste; without accountability for waste; without liability to suit for v/aste. A clause anciently often in-serted in leases, (as […]

(Lat without such cause.) Formal words in the now obsolete replication de injuria. Steph. Pl. 191 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed […]

In old practlce. without the consideration of the court; wlthout judgment Fleta, lib. 2, c. 47, { 13. Source: Black’s Law Dictionary […]

without this. These are technical words of denial, used in plead-ing at common law by way of special traverse, to lntroduce the […]

In Scotch law. An acquittal ; a decree in favor of the defender in any action Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed […]