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In old English law. As much land as an ox could till. Co. Lltt 5a. A measure of land of uncertain quantity. In Scotland, it consisted of thirteen acres. Spel-man

The complete dominion, title, or proprietary right ln a thing or claim. See Property

A restitution anciently made by a hundred br county for any wrong done hy one that was wlthln the same. Lamb. Arch. 125

The person in whom ls vested the ownership, dominion, or title of property; proprietor. Garver v. Hawkeye Ins. Co., 69 Iowa, 202, 28 N. W. 555; Turner v. Cross, 83 Tex. 218, 18 S. W. 578, 15 L. R. A. 262; Coombs v. People, 198 111. 586, 64 N. E. 1056; Atwater v. Spalding, 86 […]

In English law. The offense of transporting wool or sheep out of the klng-dom; so called from its being usually carried on in the night. 4 Bl. Comm. 154

In English law. Persons who carrled wool, etc., to the sea-side by night, in order that lt might be shipped off con-trary to law. Jacob

TY. Equality. This word is used ln law in several compound phrases, as fol-lows

Something unpaid. A debt, for example, is owing while it is unpaid, and whether lt be due or not. Coquard v. Bank of Kansas City, 12 Mo. App. 261; Mus-selman v. wise, 84 Ind. 248; Jones v. Thoinp-son, 1 El., Bl. & El. 64

An opening; a proposal

In Scotch law. An umpire appointed by a submission to decide where two arbiters have differed in opinion, or he ia named by the arbiters themselves, under powers given them by the submission. Bell

open; manifest; public; issu-ing in action, as distinguished from that which rests merely in intention or design

A superintendent or super-visor; a public officer whose duties involve general superintendence of routine affairs

In old English law. A forfeiture for contempt or neglect in not pursuing a malefactor. 3 Inst. 116

what is left beyond a cer-tain amount; the residue; the remainder of a thiug. Lyou v. Tomkies, 1 Mees. A W. 603; Page v. Leapingwell, 18 Ves. 466

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To survive; to live longer than another. Finch, Law, b. 1, c. 3, no. 58; 1 Leon. 1

In Saxon law. Con-tumacy or contempt of court Leg. JEtkeL c. 25

A negotiable instrument or other evidence of debt is overdue when the day of its maturity is past and it remains unpaid. Camp v. Scott, 14 VL 387 ; La Due v. First Nat Bank, 31 Mlnn. 33, 16 N. W. 426. A vessel is said to be overdue when she has not reached her […]

Beyond the sea; outside the limits of the state or country. See Gus-tin v. Brattle, Kirby (Coun.) 300. .See Bs-tond Sea

or OVERCYHSED

In old English law. Equality

L. Fr. Equal

In Scotch law. out-town multures; multures, duties, or tolls paid by persons voluutarlly grinding corn at any mill to which they are not thirled, or hound by tenure. 1 Forb. lust. pt. 2, p. 140.

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1. Remaining undis-charged; unpaid; uncollected; as an out-standing debt

A person to whom the business of selling by auction was confined by statute. 2 H. BI. 557

In Scotch law. Publish-er. 3 How. State Tr. 603

Injurious violence, or, in general, any species of serious wrong offered to the person, feelings, or rights of another. See McKinley v. Railroad Co., 44 Iowa, 314, 24 Am. Rep. 748; Aldrich v. Howard, 8 R. I. 246; Mosnat v. Snyder, 105 Iowa, 500, 75 N. W. 356

In English law. Bailiffs-errant employed by sheriffs or their deputies to ride to the extremities of thelr counties or hundreds to summon men to the county or hundred court, wharton

Such as set watches for the robbing any manor-house. Cowell

In early American land law, (particularly in Missouri,) a lot or parcel of land lying outside the corporate limits of a town or village but subject to Its munici-pal jurisdiction or control. See Kissell v. St. Louis Public Schools, 16 Mo. 592; St Louis v. Toney, 21 Mo. 243; Eberle v. St. Louis Public Schools, […]

Stealers of cattle. Cow-ell

In English law. A pro-cess by which a defendant or person in con-tempt on a civil or criminal process was de-clared an outlaw. If for treason or felony, lt amounted to conviction, and attainder. Stim. Law Gloss. See Respubllca v. Doan. 1 Dall. (Pa.) 86, 1 L. Ed. 47; Dale County v. Gunter, 46 Ala. […]

The Saxon thanes divided their hereditary lands into Inland, such as lay nearest their dwelling, which they kept’ to their own use, and outland, which lay beyond the demesnes, and was granted out to tenants, at the will of the lord, like copy-hold estates. This outland they subdivided into two parts, one part they disposed […]

In English law. one who is put out of the protection or aid of the law

Any house necessary for the purposes of life, in which the owner does

1. An allowance made hy the United States government to one of its dip* lomatic representatives going abroad, for the expense of his equipment

A liberty or privilege in the ancient common law, whereby a lord was enabled to call any man dwelling in his manor, and taken for felony in another place out of hls fee, to judgment in his own court Du Cange

A tax or charge formerly imposed by the state of Maryland for the in-spection and niarklng of hogsheads bf tobacco intended for export See Turner v. Maryland, 107 U. S. 38, 2 Sup. Ct. 44, 27 L. Ed. 370; Turner v. State, 55 Md. 264

In mlnlng law. The edge of a stratum which appears at the surface of the ground; that portion of a vein or lode which appears at the surface or immediately under the soil and surface debris. See Duggan v. Davey, 4 Dak. UO, 26 N. W. 887; Stevens v. williams, 23 Fed. Cas. 40

A mercantile phrase applled to a ship or vessel that has been so long at sea ns to Justify the lielief of her total loss

A term used in early Mexican land laws to designate certain boundaries within which grants of a smaller tract, which designated such ont-boundaries, might be located by the grantee. U. S. ?. Maxwell Land Graut Co., 121 U. S. 325, 7 8up. Ct. 1015, 30 L. Ed. 949.

L. Fr. Literally, out of the hand

L. Fr. Beyond the sea; a cause of excuse lf a person, being summoned, did not appear in court. CoweU

To put out; to eject; to remove or deprive; to deprive of the possession or enjoyment of an estate or franchise

In practice. A putting out; dispossession; amotion of possession. A spe-cies of injuries to things real, by which the wrong-doer gains actual occupation of the land, and compels the rightful owner to seek his legal remedy ln order to gain possession. 2 Crabb, Real Prop. p. 1063, $ 2454a. See Ewing v. Burnet, 11 Pet […]

The lierwite or fine paid to the lord by the inferloj tenant when his daughter was debauched. Cowell

The twelfth part; the twelfth part of a pound troy or the sixteenth part of a pound avoirdupois

Certain districts or tracts of lands in the orkney Islands were formerly so called, because each paid an annual tax of one ounce of silver