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An abbreviated form of docket entry, meaning that, by agree-ment, neither of the parties will further appear in court in that suit. Gendron v. Hovey, 98 Me. 139, 56 AU. 583

A piace near; an adjoining or surrounding district; a more immediate vicinity; vicinage. See Langley v. Barnstead, 63 N. H. 246; Madison v. Mor-ristown Gaslight Co., 05 N. J. Eq. 356, 54 Atl. 439; Rice v. Sims, 3 Hill (S. C.) 5; Lindsay Irr. Co. v. Mehrtens, 97 Cal. 676, 32 Pac. 802; State v. […]

In old English law. A woman who was born a villein, or a bondwoman

I^at. In the clvll law. Literally, a doing of business or businesses. A species of spontaneous ageu-cy, or an interference by oue iu the affairs of another, in hia absence, from benevolence or friendship, and without authority. 2 Kent, Comm. 616, note; Inst. 3, 28, 1

. The deliberation, dis-cusslon, or conference upon the terms of a proposed agreement; the act of settling or arranging the terms and conditions of a bar-gain, sale, or other buslness transaction. Also the transfer of, or act of putting into circulation, a negotiable instrument

TE. To discuss or arrange a sale or bargain; to arrange the preliminaries of a business transaction. Also to sell or discount negotiable paper, or assign or trans-fer it by indorsement and dellvery. Palmer v. Ferry, 6 Gray (Mass.) 420; Newport Nat. Bank v. Board of Education, 114 Ky. 87, 70 S. W. 186; odell […]

Fr. Business; trade; man-agement of affairs

The omission to do something which a reasonable man, guided by those considerations which ordinarily reg-. ulate the conduct of human affairs, would do, or doing something which a prudent and reasonable man would not do. It- must be determined in all cases by reference to the situation and knowledge of the partles and all […]

A denial; a proposition by whlch something is denled; a statement in the form of denial. Two negatives do not make a good issue. Steph. Pl. 386, 387

Lat Inauspicious. Applied, in the Roman law, to a day on which it was unlawful to open the courts or admin-ister justice

Lat That which is against, right or the divine law. A wicked or impious thing or act Calvin

An autopsy, or post-mortem examination of a human body

See Insanity

Lat. In the civil law. An obligation; a close connection; relation-ship by blood. Calvin

Lat. Necessity; a force, power, or influence which compels one to act agninst hls will. Calvin

As used ln jurisprudence^ the word “necessary” does not always import an absolute physical necessity, so strong that one thing, to wbich another may be termed “necessary,” cannot exist without that other. It frequently imports no more than that one thing is convenient or useful or esseutial to another. To employ the means necessary to […]

Lat Necessary; nn-a void able; Indispensable; not admitting of choice or the action of the will; needful

Things indispensable, or things proper and useful, for the sustenance of human life. This is a relative term, and its meaning will contract or expand according to the situation and social condition of the person referred to. Megraw v. woods, 93 Mo. App. 647, 67 S. W. 709; warner v. Hefden, 28 wis. 517, 9 […]

The act of killing

In pleading. The statement in apt and appropriate words of all the necessary facts, and no more. Lawes, Pl. 62

Land let out to the yeomanry. Cowell

The clear weight or quan-tity of an article, without the bag, box, keg, or other thing ln which it may be enveloped

This word, as applied to space, can have no positive or precise meaning. It is a relative term, depending for its signifi-catiou on the subject-matter in relation to which it is used and the circumstances under which it becomes necessary to apply it to surrounding objects. Barrett v. Schuyler County Cdurt, 44 Mo. 197; People […]

Those tides whieh hap-pen between the full and change of the moon, twice in every twenty-four hours. Tesche-macher v. Thompson, 18 Cal. 21, 79 Am. Dec. 151

Lat. It must not be altered. A phrase sometimes written by a notary upon a bill or note, for the purpose of establishing its identity, which, however

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L. Fr. Never married. More fully, ne unques accouple en loiall matrimonie, never joined in lawful marriage. The name of a plea in the action of dower unde nihil habet, by which the ten-ant denied that the dowress was ever law-fully married to the decedent

AS. L. Fr. Did not re-lease. where the defendant had pleaded a release, this was the proper replication by way of traverse

L. Lat. The statute 35 Edw. I. { 2, prohibiting rectors, i. e., parsons, from cutting down the trees in church-yards. In Rutland v. Green, 1 Keb. 557, it was extended to prohibit them from opening new mines and working the minerals therein. Brown

Lat. That lt be not received. A caveat or warning given to a law ofiicer, by a party in a cause, not to receive the next proceedings of his opponent. 1 Sell. Pr. 8

Lat. That nothing shall be done (put or erected) in a public place or way. The title of an interdict in the Roman law. Dig. 43, 8

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Lat. In old English practice. A prohibitory writ, com

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Lat. In American practice. A writ similar to that of ne exeat regno, (q. v..) avallable to the plaintiff in a civil suit, under some circum-stances, when the defendant is about to leave the state. See Dean v. Smith, 23 wis. 483, 99 Am. Dec. 198; Adams v. whltcomb, 46 Vt. 712; Cable v. Alvord, […]

Lat. In English practice. A writ which issues to restrain a person from leaving the kingdom. It was formerly used for political purposes, but ls now only resorted to in equity when the de-fendant is about to leave the kingdom; lt is only In cases where the intention of the par-ty to leave can be […]

AS, or NON DEDIT. The

L. Fr. (Does or did not disturb.) In English practice. The general issue or general plea ln quare impedit. 8 Steph. Comm. 663

L. Fr. He did not deliver. A plea ln detinue, denying the de-livery to the defendant of the thing sued for

In Hindu law. Composer, ar-ranger, adjuster. The first officer of a prov-ince, and minister of the department of criminal justice

A sum paid to govern-ment as an acknowledgment for a grant of lands, or any publlc office. Enc. Lond

Lat A ship; a vessel

Fr. In French law. A ship. Emerig. Tralte des Assur. c, 6, i 1

The act or the science or the buslness of traversing the sea or other waters In ships or vessels. Pollock v. Cleve-land Ship Building Co., 56 ohio St. 655, 47 N. E. 582; The Silvia, 171 U. S. 462, 19 Sup. Ct 7, 43 L. Ed. 241; LAurie v. Douglass, 15 Mees. & W. 746

To conduct vessels through navigable waters; to use the waters as a means of communication. Ryan v. Hook, 34 Hun (N. Y.) 185

Capable of being navi-gated; that may be navigated or passed over in ships or vessels. But the term is gen-erally understood in a more restricted sense, viz., subject to the ebb and flow of the tide

In the civil law. The master or captain of a ship. Galvin

In the civil law. The . master or commander of a ship; the captain ef a man-of-war