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To open. To put out lights; to open or cut windows. 11 East, 372.
See "Gambling Contract."
In English law. Time-bargains or contracts for the sale of supposed stock on a future day.
The causing of such reasonable apprehension of death or serious bodily harm as deters the person threatened from running the risk of incurring the same by resistance to unlawful ag
As applied to a bond or any other legal instrument, signifies bringing an action upon it or making it the subject of an action.
Held for trial.
To submit to.
the open, notorious, and exclusive possession of the premises, by the parties claiming under Goodbee, when the patentee made his entry and received the patent, was sufficient to pu
A custom claimed by keepers in forests, and sometimes by bailiffs of hundreds, to take man's meat, horse's meat, and dog's meat of the tenants and inhabitants within the perambulat
/. Persons not yet in being. a.
4 To afflict with pain or loss, with a view to amendment; to impose a penalty for the commission of a crime. Punishable. Liable to punishment. * May be punished, or liable to be pu
In Hindu law. A foot-passenger; a person employed as a night-watch in a village, and as a runner or messenger on the business of the revenue. Wharton.
Same as Pickery.
An insane desire to burn property.
A receptacle in a mint where sample coins are placed for testing.