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In old English law. The act of banishing or turning out of doors; rejection

As applied to a candidate for an elective office, this term means capa-ble of being chosen; the subject of selection or choice; and also implies competency to hold the office if chosen. Demaree v. Scates, 50 Kan. 275, 32 Pac. 1123, 20 L. R. A. 97, 34 Am. SL Rep. 113; Carroll v. Green, 148 […]

ER. In the clvll law. Accurately ; with discrimination. Veazie v. williams, 3 Story, 611, 636, Fed. Cas. No. 16,907

Relatlng to the dis-tribution of alms, bounty, or charity; chari-table

In old English law. An almoner, or chief officer, who received the eleemosynary rents ani gifts, and ln due method distributed them to pious and charitable uses. Cowell; wharton

The place ln a religious house where the common alms were deposited, and thence by the almoner dls-tributed to the poor

Possessions belonging to the church. Blount

To put to death by passing through the body a current of elec; tricity of high power. This term, descriptive of the method of Inflicting the death pen-alty on convicted criminals in some of the states, is a vulgar neologism of hybrid origin, which should be discountenanced

Pertaining to electors or elections; composed or consisting of electors

Dependent upon choice; bestowed or passing by election. Also per-taining or relating to elections; conferring the right or power to vote at elections

The act of choosing or selecting one or more from a greater number of persons, things, courses, or rights. The choice of an alternative. State v. Tucker, 54 Ala. 210

He or she who has the’great-est age

A distinguished body of men, elected as masters of Trinity House, an Institution incorporated in the reign of Henry VIII., charged with numer-ous important duties relating to the marine, Bach as the superintendence of light-houses. Mozley A whitley; 2 Steph. Comm. 502

Property which ls the acquisition of labor. Spelman

In old European law* To gain, acquire, or purchase, as by labor and Industry

In Spanish law. Commons; lands used in common by the Inhabitants of a dty, pueblo, er town, for pasture, wood, threshing-ground, etc. Hart v. Burnett, 15 Cal. 554

In old English law. A whoremonger. Blount

That which is thrown up by the sea. Also jetsam, wreck, etc

At common law, this was the name of a mixed action (springing from the earlier personal action of ejectione

A turning ont of possession. 3 Bl. Comm. 199.

In old English law. A woman ravished or deflowered, or cast forth from the virtuous. Blount

To cast, or throw out; to oust, or dispossess; to put or turn out of posses-sion. 3 Bl. Comm. 198, 199, 200. See Bo-hannon v. Southern Ry. Co., 112 Ky. 106, 65 S. W. 169

The share of the oldest son. The portion acquired by primogeniture. Termes de la Ley; Co.Litt 166b; Cowell

or EYRE. In old Ehigiish law. A Journey, route, or circuit. Justices in eire were judges who were sent by commission, every seven years, into various counties to hold the assizes and hear pleas of the crown. 3 Bl. Comm. 58

In English law. The old-est; the first-born. Spelman

Eldership. See Esnecy

In old

owelty, (q. v.) Co. Lltt 169a

In Saxon law. ways, walks, or hedges. Blount

In old English law. The shedding of blood; the mulct, fine, wife, or penalty imposed for the shed-ding of blood, which the king granted to many lords of manors. Cowell; Tomlins. See Bloodwit

A breach made by the use of force

Forcibly; applled to military force

when this phrase is used in leases, conveyances, and other like deeds, or in agreements expressed in simple writing, it indicates the-conclusion or expiration of an agreed term of years specified in the deed or writing, such conclusion or expiration arising in the natural course of events, ln contradistinction to the determination of the term […]

The running of a prescribed period of time to its end; expiration by lapse of time. Particularly applied to the terml-nation of a lease by the expiration of the term for which it was made

The corporeal representation of a person

The working cause; that cause which produces effects or results; an intervening cause, which produces results which would not have come to pass except for its interposition, and for which, therefore, the person who set in motion the original chain of causes is not re-sponsible. Central Coal & Iron Co. v. Pearce (Ky.) 80 S. […]

In Turkish language. Mas-ter; a title of respect

The result which an instrument between partles will produce in their relative rights, or which a statute will pro-duce .upon the exlsting law, as discovered from the language used, the forms employed, or other materials for construing it

In old English law. Put forth or promulgated, when speaking of the pas-sage of a statute; and brought forth, or born, when speaking of the birth of a child

In the Roman law. An edict; a mandate, or ordinance. An ordinance, or law, enacted by the emperor without the senate; belonging to the class of const it ut tones principis. Inst. 1, 2, 6. An edict was a mere voluntary constitution of the emperor; differing from a rescript, in not being returned in the […]

Thirteen constitutions or laws of this prince, found ln most editions of the Corpus Juris Civilis, after the Novels. Being confined to matters of police in the provinces of the empire, they are of little use

In Scotch law. A citation published at the market-cross of Edinburgh, and pier and shore of Leith. Used against foreigners not within the king* dom, but having a landed estate there, and against natives out of the kingdom. Bell

In old records. Buildings

In Saxon law. The offense of hedge-breaking, obsolete

General; universal; as an ecumenical council. Groesbeeck v. Duns-comb, 41 How. Prac. (N. Y.) 344

In French marine law. The clerk of a ship.’ Emerig. Tr. des Ass. c. 11, s. 8, no. 2

In medicine. That system followed by physicians who select thelr modes of practice and medicines from various schools, webster

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In French marine law. Stranding. Emerig. Tr. des Ass. c. 12, s. 13, no. L

In medical Jurisprudence. The constant and senseless repetition of par-ticular words or phrases, recognized as a sign or symptom of insanity or of aphasia