(Lat Ancient or great duties.) The duties on wool, sheep-skin, .or wool-pelts and leather exported were so called, and were payable by every merchant, stranger as well as na-tive, with the exception that merchant stran-gers paid one-half as much again as natives. 1 Bl. Comm. 314.
The term "abandonment" refers to the voluntary relinquishment of all rights, title, or claim to property that…