In Scotch law. A flctltlous offerer or bidder at a roup or auc-tlon sale. Bell
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A mode of punlshment, by the lnflictlon of stripes, occasionally used in England and in a few of the American states
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A Mongolian is not a “whlte person," within the meaning of the term aa used in the naturalization laws of the Unlted States; the term applies only to persons of the Caucasian race, in re Ah Tup, 6 Sawy 155, Fed. Cas. No. 104
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A word whlch lmplies a re-cital of a past fact The word “whereas," when it renders the deed senseless or repug-nant, may be struck out as impertinent, and shall not vitlate a deed in other respects sensible
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Thls name was applied in Scot-land, A. D. 1648, to those violent Covenant-era who opposed the Duke of Hamilton’s ln-vasion of England in order to restore Charles I. The appellatlon of “whig" and “Tory” to political factions was first heard of in A. D. 1679, and, though as senseless as any cant terms that could be devised, they became In-stantly as familiar in use as they have since continued. 2 Halk Const Hist. c. 12; Whar-ton
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Technical words in pleading, formerly necessary in making full defense to certain actions
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This word, though often used as equlvalent to “as soon as,” is also
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Money pald for landing wnree at a wharf, or for shlpping or taking goods into a boat or barge from thence. Cowell
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Duty or toll paid for carts, etc., passing over certain ground. Cowell
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A perpendicular bank or mound of timber, or stone and earth, raised on the shore of a harbor, river, canal, etc., or ex-tending some distance into the water, for the convenience of lading and unlading ships and other vessels, webster
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A castrated ram, at least one year old. in an Indlctment it may be called a “sheep." Rex v. Birket, 4 Car. & P. 216
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A royal fish, the head belng the king's property, aud the tail the queen’a 2 Steph. Comm. 19, 448, 540
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Tlie statute 13 Edw. I. SL 1, A. D. 1285, other-wise called the “Statute de Donis Condition-dlilnis” See 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, c. 10, p.’ 163. Certain parts of this act are repealed by SL 19 & 20 Vict. c. 64, and St. 26 & 27 Vlct c. 125. wharton
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The laws of the west Saxons, whlch obtained in the counties to the south and west of England, from Kent to Devonshire. Blackstone supposes these to have been much the same with the laws of Alfred, being the municipal law of the far most considerable part of hls domln-ions, and particularly Including Berkshire, the seat of his peculiar residence. 1 BL Comm. 65
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Belg. In European iaw. Contribution for jettison; average
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A city immediately adjoining London, and forming a part of the metropolis; formerly the seat of the superior courts of the kingdom
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A purging from a crime by the oaths of several persons, according to the degree and quality of the accused. Cow-ell
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In old Scotch law. A snm paid by an offender as a compensation or
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Sax. In old Eng-lish law. A robber who might be ransomed
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D, or WERGILD. This was the price of homicide, or other atrocious per-sonal ofTense, paid partly to the king for the loss of a subject, partly to the lord for the loss of a vassal, and partly to the next of kin of the Injured person. In the Anglo* Saxon laws, the amount of compensation varied with the degree or rank of the party slain. Brown
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ND. In old records. A large extent of ground, comprising several juga; a perambulation; a circuit. Spelman; Cowell
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RA, or WERE. The estimation or price of a man, especially of one slain. In the criminal law of the Anglo-Saxons, every man’s life had its value, called a “were,” or “capitis ecstimatio:’
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