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In Scotch law. A flctltlous offerer or bidder at a roup or auc-tlon sale. Bell Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A mode of punlshment, by the lnflictlon of stripes, occasionally used in England and in a few of the American states Source: […]

A Mongolian is not a “whlte person,” within the meaning of the term aa used in the naturalization laws of the Unlted […]

A word whlch lmplies a re-cital of a past fact The word “whereas,” when it renders the deed senseless or repug-nant, may […]

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 […]

Technical words in pleading, formerly necessary in making full defense to certain actions Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

This word, though often used as equlvalent to “as soon as,” is also Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Money pald for landing wnree at a wharf, or for shlpping or taking goods into a boat or barge from thence. Cowell […]

Duty or toll paid for carts, etc., passing over certain ground. Cowell Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A vessel employed in the whale fishery Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A perpendicular bank or mound of timber, or stone and earth, raised on the shore of a harbor, river, canal, etc., or […]

A castrated ram, at least one year old. in an Indlctment it may be called a “sheep.” Rex v. Birket, 4 Car. […]

A royal fish, the head belng the king’s property, aud the tail the queen’a 2 Steph. Comm. 19, 448, 540 Source: Black’s […]

Tlie statute 13 Edw. I. SL 1, A. D. 1285, other-wise called the “Statute de Donis Condition-dlilnis” See 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, […]

The laws of the west Saxons, whlch obtained in the counties to the south and west of England, from Kent to Devonshire. […]

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Belg. In European iaw. Contribution for jettison; average Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A city immediately adjoining London, and forming a part of the metropolis; formerly the seat of the superior courts of the kingdom […]

A purging from a crime by the oaths of several persons, according to the degree and quality of the accused. Cow-ell Source: […]

In old Scotch law. A snm paid by an offender as a compensation or Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Sax. In old Eng-lish law. A robber who might be ransomed Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

D, or WERGILD. This was the price of homicide, or other atrocious per-sonal ofTense, paid partly to the king for the loss […]

ND. In old records. A large extent of ground, comprising several juga; a perambulation; a circuit. Spelman; Cowell Source: Black’s Law Dictionary […]

RA, or WERE. The estimation or price of a man, especially of one slain. In the criminal law of the Anglo-Saxons, every […]