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Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
In the act of congress punishing with death any one destroying vessels, it means to unfit the vessel for service, beyond the hopes of recovery, by ordinary means.
U. S. v. Johns, 1 Wash. C. C. 363, Fed. Cas. No. 15,481; • TJ. S. v. Johns, 4 Dall. (TJ. S.) 412, 1 L. Ed. 888.
A will burned, cancelled, or torn, animo revocandi is destroyed; Johnson v. Brailsford, 2 Nott & McC. (S. C.) 272.
10 Am. Dec. 601.
The scratching out of the signature in the sense of the statute; 56 L. J. R. Pr. & D. 96.