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In French law. A municipal officer corresponding with alderman or burgess, and having in some Instances a civil Jurisdiction In certain causes of trifling im-portance

The ruler of a church

The image or sculpture of a church ln ancient times was often cut out or cast ln plate or other metal, and preserved as a religious treasure or relic, and to perpetuate the memory of some fa* mous churches. Jacob

In old English law. Ebb. Bbba deteriorem neqnaqnam. Co. Litt 341. et fluctus; ebb and flow of tide; ebb and Tbe church enjoys the privilege of a minor

Lat. An assembly. A Chris-tian assembly; a church. A place of relig-ious worship. Spelman

In medical Jurisprudence. Blackness. It is an extravasation of blood by rupture of capillary vessels, and hence lt follows contusion; but lt may exist, as in cases of scurvy and other morbid conditions, without the latter. Ry. Med. Jur. 172

In criminal law and medical jurisprudence. Personal or indlvid-ual peculiarities of mind and disposition which markedly distinguish the subject from the’ ordinary, normal, or average types of men, but do not amount to mental unsound* ness or insanity. Eklu v. McCracken, 11 Phila. (Pa.) 535

In criminal law and medical jurisprudence. Drunkenness; alcoholic in-toxication. Com. v. whitney, 11 Cush. (Mass.) 479

See Abehemubdeb

In ecclesiastical law. An officer ln cathedral churches who supervised the regular performance of divine service, and prescribed the particular duties of each person in the choir

In English criminal law. The ofTense of listening under walls or windows, or the eaves of a house, to hearken after discourse, and thereupon to frame slanderous and mischievous tales. 4 Bl. Comm. 168. It is a misdemeanor at common law, indictable at sessions, and punish* able by fine and finding sureties for good be-havior. […]

The edge of a roof, built so as to project over the walls of a house, in order that the rain may drop therefrom to the ground Instead of running down the wall. Center St. Church r. Machias Hotel Co., 61 Me. 413

Any place where food or refreshments of any kind, not including spirits, wines, ale, beer, or other malt liquors, are provided for casual visitors, and sold for consumption therein. Act Cong. July 13, 1866, | 9 (14 St. at Large, 118). And see Carpenter v. Taylor, 1 Hilt (N. Y.) 195; State v. Hall, 73 […]

In criminal practice, words used on the acquittal of a defendant, that he may go thence without a day, i. e., be dismissed without any further continuance or adjournment

An easterly coast or coun-try

The name of a royal manor ln the county of Kent, England; mentioned ln royal grants or patents, as descriptive of the tenure of free socage

A right ln tbe owner of one parcel of land, by reason of such owner-shlp, to use the laud of another for a special purpose not inconsistent with a general prop-erty ln the owner. 2 Washb. Real Prop. 25

Soil of all klnds, including gravel, clay, loam, and the like, lu distinction from the firm rock. Dickinson v. Pough-keepsle, 75 N. Y. 76

The payment of a part of the price of goods sold, or the delivery of part of such goods, for the purpose of binding the contract Howe v. Hayward, 108 Mass. 54, 11 Am. Rep. 306

Money given ln part payment. See Earnest

A mark put upon a thing to distinguish it from another, originally and literally, a mark upon the ear; a mode of marking sheep and other animals

In English law. Such grass which is upon the land after the mowing, untii the feast of the Annunciation after. 3 Leon. 213

Sax. The privllege of asslslng and selling beer, obsolete

(Fr. eale, Sax., ale, and bus, house.) An ale-house

Sax. The metropolis; the chief dty. obsolete

An archblshop

or EALDORMAN. The

or EALDING. In old SaxoU law. An elder or chief

A gold coin of the United States of the value of ten dollars

A distributive adjective pronoun, which denotes or refers to every one of the

with that lntent Held not to make a condition, but a confidence and trust. Dyer, 138b

AR. In the Roman law. A cognomen in the Gens Julia, whlch was nssumed by the successors of Julius. Tayl. Civil Law, 31

UA. In the clvil and old common law. Kept for cuttiug; lntended or used to be cut. A term applled to wood

N. In old English law. The re-muneration to the proprietor of a domain for the privilege of feeding swine under the oaks and beeches of his woods