Ballentine's Law Dictionary

Compound interest.

One from whom an inheritance is claimed. See 29 L. R. A. 542, note.

A measure equivalent to ten gallons.

A toll paid for casting ship’s anchor in port.

The lookout maintained while a vessel is at anchor.

Those more than thirty years old.

A manor recorded in the Domesday Book as being in the hands of the crown during the reign of William the Conqueror.

One which has by lapse of time acquired an easement of support.

Windows which by lapse of time have acquired an easement for unobstructed light. See 12 Mass. 157, 7 Am. Dec. 46.

Essays on ancient English statutes.

The rent reserved when a lease is made of a building not then under lease.

Those who have attained peculiar seniority at the Inns of Court.

The eldest of the queen’s serjeants.

Documents over thirty years old.

Seniority.

Auxiliary.

Of uncertain use.

Held to mean “or.” See Ann. Cas. 1912B, 1356; also 22 L. R. A. 817.

A dairy woman.

An hermaphrodite.

Partaking of both sexes.

An hermaphrodite.

Holding aliens as hostages to compel their nation to do justice.

The first-born; the eldest.

A Roman punishment of service to the government.

An English coin of the value of ten shillings.

The legal estimated value of a man or a chattel.

England.

In every case English laws are favorable to liberty.

English.

Extreme mental or physical pain.

Void.

Waste.

Any animate thing not human endowed with power of voluntary motion.—Bouvier Law Dictionary.

Wild animals, if they are tamed and are accustomed to go forth and to return, to fly out and fly back, such as deer, swans, etc., we understand to be ours as long as they have the

With intent.

With intent to repudiate or cancel.

With intent to take care of.

With intent to defame.

With intent to delay.

With the intention of making a gift.

With intent and act.

With felonious intent.

With intent to steal.

With the intent to profit.

With intent to remain.

With intent to delay.

With intent to possess.

With intent to receive.

With intent to stay away.

With the intention of republishing.

With a disposition to come back.

With the intention of making a will. See 28 Am. St. Rep. 495.

Mind; intent.

Every law is addressed to the spirit of the thing.

The intention of a man is the spirit of his writing.

Year, day and waste.

The amount of a minister’s stipend due his heir upon his death; year.

The Year-books.

The first year’s profits paid to the pope by the holder of a benefice.

Queen of England from 1702 to 1714; year.

The affixing of chattels to land in such manner that they become in law a part of it. See. 14 Cal. 64.

A one year old child.

A child is said to be a year old on the 365th day, after the beginning of the day, not at the end of it, because we reckon the civil year not by moments, but by days.

Abrogated; set at naught.

An old name for the Year-books.

Marriageable age of a girl.

In the year of our Lord; since the birth of Christ.

Yearly contributions of food for one’s support.

Annual rents paid to monasteries.

A nuisance.

A judge himself does not sever either a debt or an annuity.

Annuities of titles.

A personal obligation to make a certain annual payment. See 24 N. J. Eq. 358.

An annual tax levied in Scotland for the support of ministers of the gospel.

To nullify; to set at naught; to make void. See 22 Mo. 24.

The ring and the staff, symbols used in the investiture of a bishop.

A year.

The year which the Scotch law gives the heir to determine whether he will take an inheritance.

A year is the time of motion in which a planet revolves in its orbit.

A year and a day.

The beginning of a year is considered to be the completion of it.

The year of mourning immediately succeeding a husband’s death and during which his widow could not remarry. See 1 Bl. Comm. 456.

A year of advantage.

An annuity; an annual rent.

The negative inference necessarily follows from impossibility to nonexistence. What cannot be is not.

To annoy.

A pleading by way of defense raising an issue of fact.

A signed acknowledgment of a debt by which the debtor is bound.

Before.

An ancestor.

To date back.

Before suit is filed.

A former act.

A former act.

An oath required of the plaintiff that he would prosecute and of the defendant that he was innocent.

Before the filing of the suit.

Those born prior to a great political event; those born here before the Declaration of Independence.

Before marriage.

One made before marriage.