A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States

a measure of length containing three feet, or thirty-six inches.

estates, is a piece of land enclosed for the use and accommodation of the inhabitants of a house. In England it is nearly synonymous with backside, (q. v-) 1 Chit. Pr. 176.

This period of time is particularly recognized in the law. For exainple, when a judgement is reversed, a party, notwithstanding the lapse of time mentioned in the statute of limita

These were books of Reports of cases in a regular series from the reign of the English by the prothonotaries or chief scribes of the courts, at the expense of the crown and publish

The list’ of members of a legislative body voting in the affirmative and negative of'a proposition is so called. The constitution of the United States, Art. 1, s. 5, directs that “

In the United States this word does not appear to have any very exact meaning. It is usually put as an addition to the names YIE free man who has land of the of forty shillings a y