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A Dictionary of Law

1st edition, 1891 — browse every term in this dictionary, A–Z.

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  • In body or aesaraneal material thing or object.

  • An estate where lands are given to a man and his wife, and the heirs of their bodies.

  • War contracts. Compacts entered into by belligerent nations to secure a temporary and limited peace. 1 Kent, Comm. 159. Contracts between nations at war, or their subjecis.