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In old English law. Graln; particularly com

In English l*w. Blasphemy is the offense of speaking matter relating to God, Jesaq Christ, the Bible, or the Book of Common Prayer, intended to wound the feelings of mankind or to excite contempt and hatred against the church by law established, or to promote immorality. Sweet

An incendiary

A kind of white money, (val-ue Sd.,) coined by Henry V. in those parts of France which were then subject to England; forbidden to be current ln that realm by 2 Hen. VI. c. 9. wharton

In the law of fire

A space left unfilled in a writ-ten document, In which one or more words or marks are to be inserted to complete the sense. Angle v. Insurance Co., 92 U. S. 337, 23 L. Ed. 556

In old law and practice. White; plain; smooth; blank

white rent; a rent reserved, payable in silver

An ancient ten-ure of the law of Scotland, the duty payable being trifling, as a penny or a pepper-corn, etc., lf required; similar to free and common socage

In Louisiana, a paper signed at the bottom by him who intends to bind hlmself, give acquittance, or compromise, at the discretion of the person whom he intrusts with such blanc seign, giving him power to fill it with what he may think proper, according to agreement Musson v. U. S. Bank, 6 Mart O. […]

In old English law. A corn-monger; meal-man-or corn-chandler; a bladler, or engrosser of corn* or grain. Blount

In old English law. Growing erops of grain of any kind. Spelman. All manner of annual grain. Cowell. Harvested graln. Bract. 217b; Reg. orig. 94b, 95

A person who gets his liv-ing by frequenting race-courses and places where games of chance are played, getting the best odds, and giving the least he can, but uot necessarily cheating. That is not indictable either by statute or nt common law. Barnett v. Allen, 3 Hurt A N. 379

A closed. wagon or van in which prisoners are carried to and from the jail, or between the court and the jail

1. In one of its ortgi-nal meanings, this term denoted a tribute paid by English dwellers, along the Scottlsh border to influential chieftains of Scotland, as a condition of securing immunity from raids of marauders and border thieves

A list of persons marked ont for special avoidance, antagonism, or en-mity on the part of those who prepare the

In English law. Heath fowl, in contradistinction to red game, as grouse

A name given collectively to the body of laws, statutes, and rules in force in various southern states prlor to 1865, which regulated the lnstitu-tlon of slavery, and pnrtlcularly those for-bidding their reception nt public Inns and on public conveyances. Clvll Rights Cases, 109 U. S. 3, 3 Sup. Ct. 18, 27 L. Ed. 835

AP. The head-dress worn by the judge in pronouncing the sentence of death. It is part of the Judlclal full dress, and ls worn by the judges on occasions of especial state, wharton

The name of an ancient book kept in the English exchequer, containing a collec-tion of treaties, conventions, charters, etc

A book of the highest authority ln ad-miralty matters, generally sui,posed to have been compiled during the reign of Edward

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The day which Is added every fourth year to the month of February

In ecclesiastical law. The diocese of a bishop, or the circuit in which he has jurisdiction; the office of a bishop. 1 Bl. Comm. 377-382

In Engllsh law. An ecclesiastical dignitary, being the chief of the clergy within his diocese, subject to the archbishop of the province in which his diocese is situated. Most of tlie bishops are also members of the House of Lords

In old English law. A fine lmposed for not repairing banks, ditches, and causeways

The act of heing born or wholly brought iuto separate existence, wallace v. State, 10 Tex. App. 270

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Consisting of, or divisible into, two parts. A term iu conveyancing de-scriptive of nn instrument in two parts, and executed by both parties

The act .by which a court or magistrate requires a person to enter Into a recognizance or furnish bail to appear for trial, to keep the peace, to attend as a witness, etc

To place oue under a legal obligation to serve another; as to bind out an apprentice

The legalized use of two metals iu the currency of a country at a fixed relative value

Pertaining to. or con-slsting of, two metals used as money at a fixed relative value

In old English law. A bill or petition exhibited in parliament. Cowell

L. Lat. A bill; au original bill

A formal declaration, complaint, or statement of particular things in writing. Ab a legal term, this word has many mean-ings and applications, the more lmportant of which are enumerated below

In admiralty law and marine insurance. That state or condition of a vessel in which water ls freely admitted through holes and breaches made in the planks of the bottom, occasioned by Injuries, whether the ship’s timbers are broken or not. Peele v. Insurance Co., 3 Mason, 27, 39, 19 Fed. Cos. 103

A term, used originally ln the civil law, but now generally adopted, denoting a contract in which both the contracting parties are bound to fulfill obligations reciprocally towards each other; as a contract of sale, where one be-comes bound to deliver the thing sold, and the other to pay the price of it Montpelier Seminary […]

In Eng-lish law. An obsolete writ addressed to a corporation for the carrying of weights to such a haven, there to weigh the wool an-ciently licensed for transportation. Reg. orig. 270

A term used in Louisiana, de-rived from the French. A book in which bankers, merchants, and traders write a statement of ali they owe and all that is due them; a balance-sheet. See Dauphin v. Sou-lie, 3 Mart (N. S.) 446

By-laws of towns; munlc-ipal laws

An obstinate person, or one that is wedded to an opinion, in matters of re-llgion, etc

The criminal offense of wlll-fully and knowingly contracting a second marriage (or going through the form of a second marriage) while the first marriage, to the knowledge of the offender, Is still sub-sistlng aud undissolved. Com. v. McNerny, 10 Phila. (Pa.) 207; Gise v. Com., 81 Pa. 430; Scoggins v. State, 32 Ark. 213; Cannon […]

In the civil law. A man who was twice married; one who at differ-ent times and successively has married two wives. 4 Inst. 88. One who has two wives living, one who marries a widow

or BIGATA. A cart or chariot drawn with two horses, coupled side to side: but it is said to be properly a cart with two wheels, sometimes drawn by one horse; and

This term, in a statute, signifies, not duration of time, but a period for the happening of an event; once in every two years. People v. Tremain, 9 Hun (N. Y.) 576; People v. Kilbourn, 68 N. Y. 479

Sp. In Spanish law. Goods; property of every description, including real as well as personal property; all things (not being persons) which may serve for the uses of man. Larkin v. U. S., 14 Fed. Cas. 1154

Inclination; bent; prepossession; a preconceived opinion; a predisposition to decide a cause or an issue in a certain way, which does not leave the mind perfectly open to conviction. Maddox v. State, 32 Ga. 587, 79 Am. Dec. 307; Pierson v. State, 18 Tex. App. 558; Hinkle v. State, 94 Ga. 595, 21 S. E. […]

Beyond the limits of the klngdom of Great Britain and Ireland; out-side the United States; out of the state