Black's Law Dictionary

Span. A water ditch or artificial canal, and particularly one used for purposes of irrigation. See Pico v. Co.limas, 32 Cal. 578.

Span. A water commissioner or superintendent or supervisor of an irrigation system. See Pico v. Colimas, 32 Cal. 578.

This word ls commonly token in a bad sense, as denoting a separatist from the Church of England or a fanatic. Brown.

An untechnical term denoting a witness, on the trial of a cause, who manifests a partiality for the side calling him, and an eager readiness to tell anything which he thinks may be

O. Se, Year. "Zeir and day." Bell.

In Hindu law. Landkeep-er. An officer who under the Mohammedan government was charged with the financial superintendence of the lands of a district, the protection of the cultivato

Proceeding by inquiry. Bas$, Lond.

Rogues and vagabonds in the middle ages; from Zlgi, now Circassia.

A union of German states for uniformity of customs, established, in 1819. It continued until the unification of the German empire, including Prussia. Saxony, Bavaria, Wurtemberg, B

In the civll law. A measure or quantity of land. Nov. 17, c. A As much land as a yoke of oxen could plow in a day. Calvin.

In the civil law. A weigher; an officer who held or looked to the balance in weighing money between buyer and seller; an officer appointed to determine controversies about the weig

Lat. A liquor or beverage made of wheat or barley. Dig. 33, 6, 9, pr.