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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

1.

Things gotten by a man's own industry, or purchased with his own money, as opposed to things which come to him by descent.

2.

Profits accruing to a lord of a manor by virtue of his court-baron, over and above the yearly profits of his land; also, other things that come casually and not yearly. Moz Uy %■ W.