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This word, though generally directory only, will be taken os mandatory if the context requires it Life Ass’n v. St Louis County Assessors, 49 Mo. 518

In the laws of oleron. To deny a seaman his mess. Liter-ally, to deny the table-cloth or victuals for three meals

In Saxon law. oathsworth; oathworthy; worthy or entitled to make oath. Bract, fols. 185, 292b

Lat. In old English law. The door or porch of the church, where dower was anciently conferred

Lat. Gates of the king-dom. The {torts of the kingdom of England are so tailed by Sir Matthew Hale. De Jure Mar. pt 2, c. 3

A tax anciently paid by merchants, etc., for leave to show or expose their goods for sale in markets. Du Cange

Lat In the civil law. A monstrous or prodigious blrth. Dlg. 50, 16, 38

An implied or presumptive agency, which exists where oue, elther intentionally or from want of ordinary care, Induces another to believe that a thlrd person is his agent, though he never ln fact employed him. Bibb v. Bancroft (Cal.) 22 Pac. 484; First Nat. Bank v. Elevator Co., 11 N. D. 280, 91 N. W. […]

A partner whose name is made known and appears to the world as a partner, and who is* in reality such.- Story, Partn. $ 80

In old Englisb law. without war or feud, such security belng provided by the laws, for homicides under certaln circumstances, against the faehth, or deadly feud, on the part of the family of the slain. Anc. Inst. Eng

A garden plot or hor-tilsge

In the civil law. Managers of houses for orphans

The claws of a dog’s foot Kitch

Any person (but particularly a minor or infant) who has lost both (or one) of his or her parents. More particular-ly, a fatherless child. Soohan v. Philadelphia, 33 Pa. 24; Poston v. Young, 7 J. J. Marsh. (Ky.) 501; Chicago Guaranty Fund Life Soc. v. wheeler, 79 111. App. 241; Stewart v. Morrison, 38 Miss. […]

In Saxon law. without rec-ompense; as where no satisfaction was to be made for the death of a man killed, so that he was judged lawfully slain. Spelman

Primitive; first ln order; bearing its own authorlly, and not deriving authority from an outside source; as original jurisdiction, original writ, etc. As applied to documents, the original is the first copy or archetype; that from which another ln-strument is transcribed, copied, or imitated

A county which has its lawful officers, legal maehin-ery, and means for carrying out the powers and performing the duties pertaining to lt as a quasi municipal corporation. In re Section No. 6, 66 Minn. 32, 68 N. W. 323

The fundamental law

To establish or furnish wlth organs; to systematize; to put into working order; to arrange ln order for the normal exercise of its appropriate functions

An act of congress con-ferring powers of government upon a ter-ritory. In re Lane, 135 U. S. 443, 10 Sup. Ct. 760, 34 L. Ed. 219

Lat. By word of mouth; orally. Pleading was anciently carried on ore tenus, at the bar of the court. 3 Bl. Comm. 293

In Saxon law. The price or value of a beast A payment for a beast. The payment or forfeiture of a beast. A penalty for taking away cattle. Spelman

A llcense or right to dig and tnke ore from land. Ege v. Kille, 84 Pa. 340

Fr. In French law, an ordinance; an order of a court; a complla-tion or systematized body of law relating to a particular subject-matter, as, commercial law or maritime law. Particularly, a compilation of the law relating to prizes and captures at sea. See Coolidge v. Inglee, 13 Mass. 43

Lat. That rule which monks were obliged to observe, order; regular succession. An order of a court

Lat. In the clvll law. The benefit or privilege of order; the prlvilege whlch a surety for a debtor had of requlrlng that his princlpal should be dlscussed, or thoroughly prosecuted, be-fore the credltor could resort to him. Nov. 4, c. 1; Heinecc. Elem. lib. 3, tit. 21, $ 883

In old English law. Those of the religious who deserted thelr houses, and, throwing off the habits, renounced their particular order in con-tempt of their oath and other obligations. Paroch. Antiq. 388

A general chapter or other solemn convention of the religious of a particular order

A writ that lay against a servant for leaving his master contrary to the ordinance of St. 23 & 24 Edw. III. Reg. orlg. 189

In old practice. It is ordered. The Initial words of rules of court when entered in Latin

Lat The law of

A rule established by authority; a permanent rale of action; a

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The directions as to the course and purpose of a voyage given by the owner of the vessel to the captain or master. For other meanings, see obdeb

In a general sense. A man-date, precept; a command or direction aa-thorltatively given; a rule or regulation

In Spanlsh law. An order emanating from the sovereign, and differing from a cedula only ln form and in the mode of Its promulgation. Schm. Civil Law, Introd. 93, note

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In old English law. The rlght of administering oaths and adjudging trials by ordeal within a preclnct or liberty. Cow-ell

To institute or establish; to make an ordinance; to enact a constitution or law. Kepner v. Comm., 40 Pa. 124; U. S. v. Smith, 4 N. J. Law, 38

or ORDELFE. A liberty whereby a man claims the ore found in his own land; also, the ore lying under land. Cowell

Lat In Ro

A female petitioner; a fe-male plaintiff in a bill in chancery was for-merly so called

An ancient writ which issued, while there was no standing collect for a sitting parlia-ment, to pray for the peace and good govern-ment of the realm.

A party ln Ireland who keep alive the views of william of orange, wharton

In the civil law. The name of a kind of response or sentence given by tbe Roman emperors

Uttered by the mouth or ln words; spoken, not written

Lat work; labor; the product of work or labor

In the civil law. Ig-nominy; Infamy; shame

Nobility; men of the high-est rank

A public officer who un-lawfully uses his authority by way of oppres-. sion, (q. v