IMMIGRATION. The removing into one place from another. It differs from emigration, which is the moving from one place into another. Vide Emigration.
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M. When persons were convicted of manslaughter in England, they were formerly marked with this letter on the brawn of the thumb.
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DAM . A construction of wood, stone, or other materials, made across a stream of water for the purpose of confining it; a mole. 2. T...
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M. When persons were convicted of manslaughter in England, they were formerly marked with this letter on the brawn of the thumb.
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TABELLIO. An officer among the Romans who reduced to writing and into proper form, agreements, contracts, wills, and other instruments, a...
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CONSTRUCTION , practice. It is defined by Mr. Powell to be "the drawing in inference by the act of reason, as to the intent of an...
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SOMNAMBULISM, med. juris. Sleep walking. 2. This is sometimes an inferior species of insanity, the patient being unconscious of wha...
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This word, derived from the French parlement, in the English law, is used to designate the legislative branch of the government of Great Br...
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