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Law Reports
Law Reports. Reports of judgments of courts on points of law, published for the purpose of being used as precedents (see (REPORTS). Prior to 1865, these reports were all executed and published as mere private speculations,...
Impressing men
Impressing men, compelling persons to serve in the Navy. This practice was allowed at Common Law [see Ex parte Fox, (1793) 5 TR 277], and was extensively followed until 1815, when it began to be gradually...
Idem sonans
Idem sonans (sounding alike). A wrong or unsuit-able name. The courts will not set aside proceed-ings on account of the mispronunciation or mistake of names sounding alike, unless substantial in-justice has been done. See Reg. v....
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Discontinuance
Discontinuance, an interruption or breaking off. This happened when he who had an estate-tail made a larger estate of the land than by law he was entitled to do; in which case the estate was good,...
Debtor-Executor
Debtor-Executor. At law, if a testator appoints his debtor executor, the debt is released. In equity, however, the executor is accountable for the amount of his debt, as assets of the testator. See Freakley v. Fox,...
Corpse
Corpse. Removing a corpse from a grave is a misdemeanour at Common Law, Reg. v. Sharpe, (1857) 26 LJ C 47; R. v. Kenyon, (1901) 36 LJ News. 571. Refusing to bury dead bodies by those...
Rutterkin
An old crafty fox or beguiler a word of contempt
Chaceare
Chaceare ad lepores vel vulpes. To hunt hares or foxes, Cart. Abb. Glast. MS. 87.
Beasts
Beasts f chase [fer' campestres, Lat.]; there are five, viz., the buck, doe, fox, marten, and roe; of the forest are the hart, hind, buck, hare, boar, and wolf, also called beasts of venery; of the...
Arnaldia
Arnaldia, a disease that makes the hair fall off, otherwise called alopecia Gk.), because foxes are subject to it.
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