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A rent paid to the castle of wigmore, in lieu of certaiu days’ work in harvest, heretofore reserved to the lord from […]

1. In negotiations for a policy of insurance. In England, the agreement is in practice concluded between the parties by a memorandum […]

A stirrup. There is a tenure of land in Cambridgeshire by holding the sovereign’s stirrup, wharton Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed […]

In English iaw. An expression frequently used in coal-mine leases and agreements for the same. It signifies a fixed or dead, i. […]

Ab to slight “Care,” "Evidence,” "Fault,” and "Negligence,” see those titles Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A hurdle to draw traitors to execution. 1 Hale, P. C. 82 Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A dormant partner; one whose name does not appear in the firm, and who takes no active part in the business, but […]

The condition of a slave; that civll relation In which one man has ab-solute power over the life, fortune, end lib-erty of […]

This word, in an indictment, adds nothing to the force and effect of the word ‘•kill,” when used with reference to the […]

A person who is wholly subject to tlie will of another; one who hns no free-dom of action, but whose person and […]

Tlie traffic iu slaves, or the buying and selling of sla,cs for profit Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

See Letters or Slains Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In torts, oral defamation; the speaking of false and malicious words concerning another, whereby Injury results to his reputation. See Pollard v. […]

Practical and familiar knowledge of the principles and processes of an art, sclence, or trade, combined with the ability to apply them […]

In old records. A long, flat, and narrow piece or strip of ground. Paroch. Antiq. 465 Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed […]

In Engllsh law. A liquor license, containing a condition that the premises in respect of which the license is granted shall be […]

Servants of the same nature as rod knights, (q. v.) Anc. Inst Eng Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A celebrated act entitled “An act for abolishing di-versity of opinion,” (31 Hen. VIIL c. 14.) enforclng conformity to six of the […]

In English practice, of-ficers of the court of chancery, who receiv-ed and filed all bills, answers, replications, and other papers, signed office […]

Lat Site; position; location; the place where a thing is, considered, for example, with reference to jurisdiction over it, or the right […]

The acts passed in 1819, for the pacification of England, are so called. They, in effect, prohibited the training of persons to […]

Sp. In Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In practice. The holding of a court, with full form, and before all the Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A woman who has the same father and mother with another, or has one of them only. The word is the correlative […]

In Saxon law. The high constable of a hundred Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)