As to strict “Construction,” "Foreclosure,” and “Settlement,” see those titles
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In the old books. To narrow or restrict. “The habendum should not atreighten the devise.” 1 Leon. 58
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In old records. Estrepe-ment or strip; a species of waste or destruc-tlon of property. Spelman
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The process of working tin in Cornwall and Devon. The right to stream must not be exercised so as to interfere with the rights of other private individuals; e. g., either by withdrawing or by polluting or choking up the water-courses or waters of others; and the statutes 23 Hem VIII. c. 8, and 27 Hen. VIII. c. 23, Impose a penalty of £20 for the offense. Brown
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An urban way or thorough? fare; a road or public way in a city, town, or village, generally paved, and lined or in-tended to be lined by houses on each side. Bee U. S. v. Bain, 24 Fed. Cas. 913; Brace v. New York Cent R. Co., 27 N. Y. 271; In re woolsey, 95 N. Y. 138; Debolt v. Carter, 31 Ind. 367; Theabold v. Railway Co., 66 Miss. 279, 6 South. 230, 4 L. R. A. 735, 14 Am. SL Rep. 564
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A current of water; a body of flowing water. The word, in its ordinary d&nse, includes rivers. But Callis defines a stream “a current of waters ruuuiug over the level at random, and not kept in with banks or walls.” Call. Sew. 183,] 133. See Munson v. Uuugerford, 6 Barb. (N. Y.) 270; French v. Carhart, 1 N. Y. 107; Miller v. Black Rock Springs Imp. Co., 99 Va. 747, 40 S. E. 27, 86 Am. St Rep. 924; Armfield v. State, 27 Ind. App. 48S, 61 N. E. 693; Trus-tees of Schools v. Schroll, 120 IlL 509, 12 N. E. 243, 60 Am. Rep. 575
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A deception either by words or actions, in times of war, in order to obtain an advantage over an enemy
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A military govern-ment; government by military chiefs of an army
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Any person not within the consideration of natural love and affection arising from relationship
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By this term is Intended third persons generally. Thus the persons bound by a fine are partles, privies, and strangers; the parties are either the cogni-zors or cognizees; the privies are such as are in any way related to those who levy the flne, and claim under them by any right of blood, or other right of representation; the stran-gers are all other persons In the world, except only the parties and privies. In its general legal slgnlficatlon the term is opposed to the word “privy.” Those who are In no way parties to a covenant, nor bound by it, are
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L. Lat. A man of straw, oue of no substance, put forward as bail or surety
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In maritime law. The drifting, driving, or running aground of a ship on a shore or strand. Accidental strand-ing takes place where the ship is driven on shore by the winds and waves. Voluntary stranding takes place where the ship is run on shore either to preserve her from a worse fate or for some fraudulent purpose. Marsh. Ins. bk. 1, c. 12, | 1. See Barrow v. Bell, 4 Barn. A C. 736; Strong v. Sun Mut. Ins. Co., 31 N. Y. 106, 88 Am. Dec. 242; Lake v. Columbus Ins. Co., 13 ohio, 55, 42 Am. Dec. 188; London Assur. Co. v. Companhla de Moagens, 167 U. S. 149, 17 Sup. Ct. 785, 42 L. Ed. 113
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In stock-brokers* parlance the term means the double privilege 'of a “put” and a “call," and secures to the holder the right to demand of the seller at a certnin price within a certain time a certain number of shares of specified stock, or to require him to take, at the same price within the same time, the same shares of stock. Harris v. Tumbridge, 83 N. ¥. 95, 38 Am. Rep. 398
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In Scotch law. For* merly this word included every species ot theft accompanied with violence to the person, but of late years it has become the vox signata for forclble and masterful depreda-tlon within or near the dwelling-house; whlle robbery has beeu more particularly applied to
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In maritime law. The storing, packlng, or arranging of the cargo in a ship, in such a manner as to protect the gooda from friction, braising, or damage from leakage
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Storing is the keeping merchan-dise for safe custody, to be delivered in the same condition as -when received, where the safe-keeping is the principal object of depos-it, and not the consumption or sale. O’Niel v. Buffalo F. Ins. Co., 3 N. T. 122; Hynds v. Schenectady County Mut Ins. Co., 16 Barb. (N. Y.) 119
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The name of an order grantable in English chancery practice, to prevent drawing out a fund in court to the prejudice of an assignee or lienholder
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A person- wbo owns shares of stock in a corporation or joint-stock company. See Mills v. Stewart, 41 N. Y. 386; Ross v. Knapp, etc., Co., 77 111. App. 424; Corwith v. Culver, 69 111. 502; Hirsh-feld v. Bopp, 145 N. Y. 84, 39 N. E. 817; State v. Hood, 15 Rlch. Law (S. C.) 180
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A machine consisting of two pieces of timber, arranged to be fastened to-gether, and holding fast the legs of a pereon placed in it This was an ancient method of punishment
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