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A building in which goods and merchandise are sold at retail, or where mechanics work, and sometimes keep their products for sale. […]

In English law. A county. So called because every county or shire is divided and parted by certain metes and bounds from […]

In medical jurisprudence. A sudden and severe depression of the vltal functions, particularly of the nerves and the circulation, due to the […]

Ships in general; ships or vessels of any kind Intended for navigation. Relating to ships; as, shipping interest, shipping affairs, shipping business, […]

The demolition or shat-tering of a vessel, caused by her driving ashore or on rocks and shoals in the mid-seas, or by […]

Thls term, in common marl-time and commercial usnge, means “placed on board of a vessel for the purchaser or consignee, to be […]

1. The owner of goods who lntrusts them on board a vessel for delivery abroad, hy charter-party or otherwise Source: Black's Law […]

Formerly, a jocose term for a bank-note greatly depredated in value; also for paper money of a denomlna Source: Black's Law Dictionary […]

Libby, 26 Fed. Cas. 928; U. S. v. winn, 28 Fed. Cas. 735.—Ship's hnsband. In mari-time law. A person appointed by the […]

Changlng; varylng; pass-lng from one person to another by substltu-tlon. “Shlftlng the burden of proof" is transferrlng it from one party to […]

In English law. The name of an English coin, of the value of one-twentieth part of a pound. This denomina-tlon of money […]

In the practice of the Engllsh hlgh court, when a vlew by a Jury is ordered, persons are named by the court […]

In Engllsh law. To be qult of attachment in a court, in plalnts shewed and not avowed, obsolete Source: Black's Law Dictionary […]

The jurisdlction of a sherlff. Called, in modern law, “balllwlck." The office of a sherlff Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A word used by the authorities of the Roman Church, to specify contemptuously the technlcal parts of the law, as admlnistered by […]

In Amerioan law. The Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

The time of a man’s belng sheriff. Cowell. The term of a sher-HTs office Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

RULE IN. "When the ancestor, by any gift or conveyance, tak-eth an estate of freehold, and in the same gift or conveyance […]

The body of the lordship of Caerdiff in South wales, excluding the members of it Powel, Hist, wales, 123 Source: Black's Law […]

A deed; so called from the parchment ft was written on Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A right Of sheep-walk is the eame thing as a fold-course, (q. v.) Elton, Commons, 44 Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed […]

Small plots of past-ure, in England, often in the middle of the waste of a manor, of which the soil may or […]

A service turned into money, which was paid in respect that an-ciently the tenants used to wash the lord’s sheep, wharton Source: […]

A riding, tithing, or divi-sion in the Isle of Man, where the whole island is divided into six sheadings, in each of […]

A wether more than a year old. Rex v. Birket, 4 Car. & P. 216 Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)