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The name applied in England to the process of settling the ac-counts and’ liquidating the assets of a part-nership or company, for […]

An opening made in the wall of a house to admit light and air, and to furnish a view or prospect The […]

In England. 1. The stat-ute 32 Hen. Vlll. c. 1, passed in 1540, by which persons seised in fee-simple of lands holden […]

A stat-ute passed in the thirteenth year of the reign of Edward I., by which the old Saxon law of police was […]

Proceeding from a conscious tnotion of the will; intending the result which actually comes to pass; designed; in* tentlonal; malicious Source: Black’s […]

Intentionally. In charg-lng certain offenses, it is required that they should be stated to be willfully done. Archb. Crim. Pl. 51, 58; […]

A devise to B. and his children or issue, B. having no Issue at the time of the devise, gives him an […]

In Hindu law. The relation be*, tween a master or patron and hls freedman, and the relation between two persons who bad […]

In old English law. The overseer of a wood. Cowell Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Land in a state of nature, as dlstlngulshed from improved or cultl-vated land. Clark ▼. Phelps, 4 Cow. (N. Y.) 203 Source: […]

The state or condition of heing a widow. An estate is sometimes settled upon a woman “during widowhood,’*’ which is expressed in […]

L. LaL In old European law. A mark or sign; a mark set up on land, to: denote an exclusive occupation, or […]

Sax. A village, town, or district Hence, in composition, the territory over which a glven jurlsdiction extends. Thus, “baillwick” is the territorial […]

A man whose wlfe is dead, and wbo has not remarried Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A whore is a woman who practices unlawful commerce with men, partlcu-larly one who does so for hire; a harlot; a concubine; […]

A country house or farm. Cow-elL Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

See Blood Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

To sell by wholesale is to sell by large parcels, generally in original packages, and not by retail Source: Black’s Law Dictionary […]

The feast of Pentecost, being the fiftieth day after Easter, and the first of the four cross-quarter days of the year, wharton […]

In old English law. ▲ class of offenders who whitened stolen ox-hldes and horse-hides so that they could not be known and […]

A mulct on certain lands in or near to the forest of Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Pentecostals Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A kind of eequlres. Cowell Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A place in London be-tween the Temple nnd Blackfrlars, which was formerly a sanctuary, and therefore privileged from arrest wharton Source: Black’s […]

A fictitious name glven to a piece of land, in the Engllsh books, for purposes of illustration Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd […]