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A word used in deeds of conveyance, (either solely, or in connection with others,) where lt ls intended to pass a fee

Succession by inheritance

A young cow which has not had a calf. 2 East, P. C. 616. And see State v. McMinn, 34 Ark. 162; Mundell v. Hammond, 40 Vt. 645

The leader of the monks in the Greek Church

The epoch or account of time used by the Arabians and the Turks, who begin their computation from the day that Mahomet was compelled to escape from

The leadership of one among several Independent confederate states

A vagabond priest in olden time

Toil or customary dues at the hithe or wharf, for landing goods, etc., from which exemption was granted by the crown to some particular persons and societies, wharton

A small haven, wharf, or land-ing place

Ah engine to take fish in the river Ouse. 23 Hen. VIII. c. 18

In fendal law. Rent

A week’s man; the canon or prebendary in a cathedral church, who had the peculiar care of the choir and the offices of it for his own week. Cowell

A device for catch-ing fish in ebbing water. St. 23 Hen. VIII. c. 5

In Saxon law. The privilege of having the goods of a thief, and the trial of him, within a certain liberty. Cowell

An unlawful fisher in the Thames below London bridge; so called because they generally fished at ebbing tide or water. 4 Hen. VII. c. 15; Jacob

In criminal law. A state of violent and uucoutrollable rage

In English law. A species of modus or composition for tithes. Anstr. 323. 326

A tax levied In England by St. 14 Car. II. c. 10. consisting of two shillings on every hearth or stove in the kingdom. It was extremely unpopular, and wns abollshed by 1 W. & M. St. 1, c

A term applied to that spe-cies of testimony given by a witness who relates, not what he knows personally, but what others have told him, or what he has heard said by others. Hopt v. Utah, 110 U. S. 574, 4 Sup. Ct 202. 28 L. Ed. 262; Morell v. Morell, 157 Ind. 179, CO […]

In equity praotioe. The

Free from disease or bodily ailment, or any state of the system pecu-liarly susceptible or liable to disease or bod,^ ily ailment Bell v. Jeffreys, 35 N. C. 356. w

Freedom from slckness or suffering. The right to the enjoyment of health Is a subdivision of the right of per-sonal security, one of the absolute rights of persons. 1 Bl. Comm. 129, 134. As to in-juries affecting health, see 3 Bl. Comm. 122

Another name for a curative act or statute. See Lockhart v. Troy, 48 Ala. 584

In Saxon law. A sort of pillory, by which the head of the culprlt was caught between two boards, as feet are caught ln a pair of stocks. Cowell

In Saxon law. A court-baron; an ecclesiastical court

In old English law. one of the services to be rendered by a thane, but in what it consisted seems un-certain

In the

An exaction of 40d. ob more, collected by the sheriff of Northum-berland from the people of that county twice iu every seven years, without account to the king. Abolished in 1444. Cowell

A syllabus to a reported case; a summary of the points decided in the case, which is placed at the head or be-glnning of the report

Certain tribunals in Scotland, abolished by 20 Geo. II. c. 50. Ersk. 1, 4, 5

In Saxon law. Tbe head or chlef officer of a borough; chief of the frankpledge tithing or decennary. This office was afterwards, when the petty con-stableship was created, united with that of-flce

Chief; leading; principal; the upper part or priucipal source of a stream

Exposed to or involving danger; perilous; risky

In old Englisb law. An

In old English law. An oflicer appointed in the lord’s court to keep

A trader who goes from place to place, or along the streets of a town, selling the goods which he carries with him

In old English law. A valley. Co. Litt. 5b

A coat or shirt of mail; hence, derivatively (in feudal law) one who held a fief on the duty or service of providing himself with such armor and standing ready, thus equipped, for military service when called on. wharton

A place of a large recelpt and safe riding of shlps, so situate and secured by the land circumjacent that the vessels thereby rlde and anchor safely, and are protected hy the adjacent land from dangerous or violent winds; as Milford Haven, Plym-outh Haven, and the like. Hale de Jure Mar. par. 2, c. 2. […]

In old English law. A man armed wlth a coat of maii. Jacob

L. Fr. High street; highway. Yearb. P. 11 Hen. VI. 2

L. Fr. Highway. Yearb. M. 4 Hen. VI. 4

In old English law. Hatred. Leg. wm. I. c. 16; Blount

or HOWGH. A green plot in a valley

O. Fr. A high lord; a great baron. Spelman

In maritime law. Prl-mage; a small duty pald to the captain and mariners of a shlp

In old English law. The hasp of a door; by which livery of eelsin might anciently he made, where there was a house on the premises

In old Scotch law. Tlie form of entering an helr ln a sub-ject situated within a royal borough. It consisted of the heir’s taking hold of the hasp and staple of the door, (which was the symbol of possession,) with other formalities. Bell; Burrill

A stag or male deer of the forest five years old complete

Fr. In Norman and early English law. An outcry, or hue and cry after felons and malefactors. Cowell