The woman who mar-ries a widower, he having a child by hls former wife, becomes step-mother to such child
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The son of one's wife by a former husband, or of one’s hnsband by a former wife
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The daughter . of one’s wife by a former husband, or of one’s husband by a former wife
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The man who mar-ries a widow, she having a child by her former marriage, is step-father to such child
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Lat in the civil law. A general name for any kind of fraud not falling under any specific class. But the term is chiefly applied to fraud practiced in the sale or pledging of property; as, selling the same property to two different persons, selling another’s property as one's own, plac-ing a second mortgage on property without disclosing the existence of the first, etc
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one who is skilled in the art of short-hand writing; one whose business is to write in short-hand. See Ry-nerson v. Allison, 30 S. C. 534, 9 S. E. 656; In re Appropriations for Deputy State of-flcers, 25 Neb. 662, 41 N. W. 643; Chase v. Vandergrift, 88 Pa. 217
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Fr. In French law. A party wbo fraudulently mortgages property to whicb he has no title
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In Scotch law. Tbe crime of aliening the same subject to differ-ent persons. 2 Kames, Eq. 40
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Theft is so called by some aneient writers. “Stealth is the wrongful taking of goods wlthout pretense of tltle.” Finch, Law, b. 3, C. 17
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In Scotch law. Corns, cattle, straw, and implements of hus-bandry delivered by a landlord to his tenant, by which the tenant is enabled to stock and labor the farm; in consideration of which he becomes bound to return articles equal in quantity and quality, at the expiry of the lease. Bell
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In practice. A stopping; the act of arresting a judicial proceeding, by the or-der of a court See In re Schwarz (D. C.) 14 Fed. 788
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This term is commonly used in indictments for larceny, (“take, steal, and carry a way,") and denotes the commission of theft. But, in popular usage, “stealing" seems to be a wider term than “larceny,” in-asmuch as it may include the unlawful appropriation of things whlch are not technic-ally the subject of larceny, e. g., Immovables. See Randall v. Evening News Ass’n, 101 Mich. 561, 60 N. W. 301; People v. Du-mar, 42 Hun (N. Y.) 85; Com. v. Kelley, 184 Mass. 320, 68 N. E. 346; Holmes v. Gilman, 64 Hun, 227, 19 N. Y. Supp. 151; Dun-nell v. Flske, 11 Metc. (Mass.) 554; Barnhart v. State, 154 Ind. 177, 56 N. E. 212. —Stealing children. See Kidnapping
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In old records. A store, or stock of cattle. A term of common occur
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Lat. In Roman law. Li-censed or registered advocates; members of the college of advocates. The number of these was llmited, and they enjoyed special privileges from the time to Constantine to that of Justinian
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Relating to a statute; created or defined by a statute: required by a statute; conforming to a statute
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Lat in Louisiana. Slaves for a time, who had acquired the right of being free at a time to come, or on a condition which was not fulfilled, or in a certain event which had not happened, but who in the mean time remained in a state of slavery. Clv. Code La. (Ed. 1838) art. 37
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The status of a person is hls legal position or condition. Thus, when we say that the status of a woman after a decree nisi for the dissolution of her marriage with her husband has been made, bnt before it has been made absolute, is that of a married woman, we mean that she has the same legal rights, liabilities, and disabilities as an ordi* nary married woman. The term is chiefly applied to persons under disability, or persons who have some peculiar condition which prevents the general law from applying to them in the same way as it does to ordlnary persons. Sweet See Barney v. Tourtellotte, 138 Mass. 108; De la Montanya v. De la Montanya, 112 Cal. 115, 44 Pac. 345, 32 L. R. A. 82, 53 Am. SL Rep. 165; Dunham v. Dun-ham, 57 111. App. 497
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Tiiat part of political science which is concerned in collecting and ar
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Lat. In Roman law. one who is made free by will under a condition ; one who has hls liberty fixed and ap-polnted at a certain time or on a certain con-dition. Dig. 40, 7
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A statesman; a politician; one skilled in government
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In the civil law. A place where shlps may ride in safety. Dig. 50, 16
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