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In Scotch law. A person who takes meat and drink from others by force or menaces, without paying for it Bell Source: […]

A tax of forty shillings an-ciently lald upon every knight’s fee. Cowell Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Lat in the civll law. HurtT ful; injurious; hindering; excusing or jusr tlfytng delay. Morbus sonticus is any illness pf so serlous […]

In ecclesiastical law, an officer of the ecclesiastical courts whose duty was to serve citations or process Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd […]

The husband of one’s daughter. » Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In French law. A demand served by a huissier, by which one narty calls upon another to do or not to do […]

Sleep-waIking. whether this condition is anything more than a co-operation of the voluntary muscles with the thoughts which occupy the mind during […]

ETT’S CASE. A celebrated decision of the English king's bench, In 1771, (20 How. St. Tr. 1,) that slavery no longer existed […]

Lat He paid; paid. 10 East, 206 Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A solvent person is one who is able to pay all his just debts in full out of hls own present means. […]

Lat To pay; to comply with one’s engagement; to do what one has undertaken to do; to release one’s self from obllgation, […]

Lat. Paylng. An apt word of reserving a rent in old conveyances. Co. Litt 47a Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Lat. To be in a state of solvency; i. e., able to pay Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Fr. In French law. Ability to pay; solvency. Emerig. Tralte des Assur. c. 8, | 15 Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed […]

Ability to pay; present ability to pay; ability to pay one’s debts out of one’s own present means. Marsh ir. Dunckel. 25 […]

Lat in civil law. Payment, satisfaction, or release; any species of discharge of an obligation accepted as satia-factory by the creditor. The […]

In tbe oivil law. Loosed; freed from confinement; set at liberty. Dig. 50, 16, 48 Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In old English law. Two plow-lands, and somewhat less than a half. Go. Litt. 5a Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

LaL In Ro Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Lat. In the civil law. A whole; an entire or undivided thing Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A coin equal to 13s. 4d. of the present standard. 4 Steph. Comm. 119n. originally the “solidus” was a gold coin of […]

In Engllsh law. A legal practltloner in the court of chancery. The words “solicitor" nnd “attorney” are commonly used indiscriminately, although they […]

A term of civil-law origin, Blgnifylug that the right or interest spoken of is joint or common. A “solidary obliga-tion" corresponds to […]

To solemnize, spoken of a marriage, means no more than to enter ln-to a marriage contract, wlth due publicatlon, before thlrd persons, […]

Asking; enticing; ur-gent request Thus “solicitation of chasti-ty” is the asklng or urging a woman to surrender her chastlty. The word is […]