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Smoldering

Being in a state of suppressed activity quiet but not dead

Shinto

of the two great systems of religious belief in Japan Its essence is ancestor worship and sacrifice to dead heroes

VerbarSequestrum

A portion of dead bone which becomes separated from the sound portion as in necrosis

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Sepulture

The act of depositing the dead body of a human being in the grave burial interment

Sepulchral

Of or pertaining to burial to the grave or to monuments erected to the memory of the dead as a sepulchral stone a sepulchral inscription

Sepulcher

The place in which the dead body of a human being is interred or a place set apart for that purpose a grave a

Gage, estates in

pledge. They are of two kinds: (1) vivium vadium, or living pledge, or vifgage; (2) mortuum vadium, or dead pledge, better known as mortgage.

Freight

land or air 2. Compensation paid to carrier for transporting goods, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 677. Dead freight is the freight agreed to be paid in respect of any part of the cargo which was

Super fidem chartarum, mortuis testibus, erit ad patriam de necessitate recurrendum

Litt. 6b), the truth of charters is necessarily to be referred to a jury, when the witnesses are dead.

Homine eligendo ad custodiendam peciam sigilli pro mercatoribus editi

choice of a man to keep one part of the seal appointed for statutes-merchant, when a former is dead, according to the Statute of Acton Burnell, Reg. Brev. 178.

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