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Shorling

The skin of a sheen after the fleece is shorn off as distinct from the morling or skin taken from...

Being in a state of suppressed activity quiet but not dead

Actus non facit reum, nisi mens sit rea. 3 Inst. 307; Co. Litt. 247 b.--(An act does not make a...

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Attainder [fr. attaindre, Fr. (attainder, O. F.-Roquef.); attingo, Lat., which signifies the apprehension of the object of a chase], the...

Births, Marriages, and Deaths. By the (English) Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1836 (6 & 7 Wm. 4, c. 86),...

Burglary [fr. burg, Sax., a house, and larron, a thief, fr. latro, Lat.]. At Common Law burglary is the breaking...

Civil death. A man is said to be civilly dead (civiliter mortuus) when he has been attainted of treason or...

Censumethidus, a dead rent, like that which is called mortmain, Blount.

Chartarum super fidem, mortuis testibus, ad patriam, de necessitudine, recurrendum est [Lat.], The witnesses being dead, it must be referred,...

Civiliter mortuus (civilly defunct, i.e., dead inlaw). See CIVIL DEATH.

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