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Lat By reason

Lat By rea

Lat. on acconnt of inability. A ground of qualified property in some animals ferae natura; as in the young ones, while they are unable to fly or run. 2 Bl. Comm. 3, 4

An abol-ished writ which lay where two lords, ln divers towns, had selgnlorles adjoining, for him who found hls waste by llttle and little to have been encroached upon, agalnst the other, who had encroached, thereby to rectl-fy their bounds. Cowell

A wrlt that lay for tlie wife against the executors of her husband, to have the third part of his goods after hls just debts and funeral expenses had been paid. Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 122.

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Lnt. Confirmation, agreement, consent, approbation of a contract. Saltmarsh v. Cnndia, 51 N. H. 76

Rate; proportion; degree. Reason, or understanding. Also a cause, or giving judgment therein

Lat. In the civll law. To hold a thlng ratified; to ratify or confirm it Dig. 46, 8, 12, 1

In old English law. A rase; a measure of onions, containing twenty flones, and each flonls twenty-five heads. Fleta, llb. 2, C. 12, | 12

Lat In old English law. Ravished. A technical word in old indictments. 2 East, 30

In old Euglish law. A writ for taking away an heir holding in socage, of which there were two sorts: one when the heir was married; tbe other when he was not. Reg. orlg. 163

In French law and ln Loulslana. A proceeding similar to hotchpot; the restoration to the succession of such property as the heir may have received by way of advancement from the decedent, ln order that an even division may be made among all the co-helrs. Clv. Code La. art. 1305

In criminal law. Plunder; pillage; robbery. In the civll law, raplna is defined as the forcible and violent taklng of another man’s movable property wlth the criminal intent to appropriate it to the robber’s own use. A prsetorian action lay for this offense, ln which quadruple damages were recoverable. Gaius, lih. 3, 8 209; Inst. […]

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In oriminal law. The unlawful carnal knowledge of a woman by a man forcibly and against her will. Code Ga. I 4349; Gore v. State, 119 Ga. 418, 46 S. E. 671, 100 Am. St. Rep. 182; Maxey v. State, 66 Ark. 523, 52 S. W. 2; Croghan v. State, 22 W1&. 444; State v. […]

In forest law. A sworn of fleer of the forest, whose office chiefly con-sists in three points: To walk daily through his charge to see, hear, and Inquire as weil of trespasses as trespassers iu his bailiwick: to drive the beasts of the forest, both of venery and chace, out of the deafforested ln-to the […]

Sp. A small collection of men or thelr dwellings; a hamlet. As used, however, in Mexico and in the Spanish law formerly prevailing in California, the term signifies a rauch or large tract of land suit-able for grazing purposes where horses or cattle are raised, and is distinguished from hacienda, a cultivated farm or plantation

In the government survey of the United States, this term is used to de

To create. A use may be rais-ed; i. e., a use may be created. Also to in-fer; to create or bring to light by construction or lnterpretatlon

A statute, so called, of justices assigned by Edward I. and his coun-cll, to go a circuit through all England, and to hear and determine all complaints of in-juries done within five years next before Michaelmas, in the fourth year of hls reign. Spelman

A kind of lottery ln which several persons pay, ln shares, the value of something put up as a stake, and then deter-mine by chance (as by casting dice) which one of them shall become the sole possessor of lt. webster; Prendergast v. State, 41 Tex. Cr. R. 358, 57 S. W. 850; State v. […]

A political party. The term arose tn England, in 1S18, when the popular leaders, Hunt Cartwright, and oth-ers, sought to obtain a radical reform in the

In French law. A term in-cluding the repairs made to a ship, and a fresh supply of furnlture and victuals, muni-tions, and other provlslons required for the voyage. 3 Pard. Drolt Commer. I 602

wines drawn from the lees. Cowell

An engine of tortnre anciently nsed in tbe inquisitorial method of examin-ing persons charged with crime, the office of whlch was to break the limbs or dislocate the joints

A rent of the full value of the tenement, or near It. 2 Bl. Comm. 43

In the legal polity of the Sallans and Rlpuarlans and other Germanic peoples, this name was given to the judges or assessors who sat with the count in his mallum, (court,) and were generally associated with him in other matters. Spelman

L. Fr. To redeem; to repurchase, (or bny back.) Kelham

An artificial canal dug in the earth; a channel cut In the ground, wilder v. De Cou, 26 Mlnn. 17, 1 N. W. 48. The channel for the current that drives a water-wheel, webster