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Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879

Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence

In Scotch law

1.

The adjustment of the increase of a minister's stipend among the several lieritors liable to pay it.

2.

Lands " secured to a widow by her contract in life-rent;" i.e., seciu'ed to her by her marriage settlement for the period of her life.

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