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COMMON . or right of common, English law. An encorporeal hereditament, which consists in a profit which a man has in the lands of anot...
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STATE: government. This word is used in various senses. In its most enlarged sense, it signifies a self-sufficient body of persons...
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SEARCH, crim. law. An examination of a man's house, premises or person, for the purpose of discovering proof of his guilt in rela...
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LABEL. A narrow slip of paper or parchment, affixed to a deed or writing hanging at or out of the same. This name is also given to an app...
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AUTHORITIES , practice. By this word is understood the citations which are made of laws, acts of the legislature, and decided cases, a...
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IBIDEM. This word is used in references, when it is intended to say that a thing is to be found in the same place, or that the reference ...
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... ALIMENTS . In the Roman and French law this word signifies the food and other things necessary to the support of life, as clo...
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A , the first letter of the English and most other alphabets, is frequently used as an abbreviation, (q. v.) and also in the marks of ...
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Do-it-yourself Prenuptial Agreement A prenuptial agreement, antenuptial agreement, or premarital agreement, is a written contract entere...

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EJECTMENT , remedies. The name of an action which lies for the recovery of the possession of real property, and of damages for the unl...
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SABBATH. The same as Sunday. (q. v.) SABINIANS. A sect of lawyers, whose first chief was Atteius Capito, and the second, Caelius S...
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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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GABEL . A tax, imposition, or duty. This word is said to have the same signification that gabelle formerly had in France . Cunn. Dict...
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CONSTITUTIONAL . That which is consonant to, and agrees with the constitu- tion. 2. When laws are made in violation of the const...
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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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E CONVERSO . On the other side or hand; on the contrary. E PLURIBUS UNUM . One from more. The motto of the arms of the United States...
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