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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
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In conveyancing, one who takes title under a conveyance made without a good or valuable consideration.
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In military law, one who serves willingly, by his choice, in distinction from a conscript or drafted man, and from an enlisted man or oificer in the regular army. A substitute is not a volunteer, within the meaning of statutes providing for bounties to volunteers. People v. Quartermaster- To the contrary.
Magee v. Cutler, 43 Barb. 239.