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Bill of Lading

Bill of Lading, a memorandum signed by masters of ships, in their capacity of carriers, acknowledging the receipt

Hospitals, eleemosynary corporations. They are either aggregate, in which the master or warden and his brethren have the estate of inheritance;

the manor, are now placed under the superintendence of the Master of the Rolls. They may remain in the possession or

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was performed in three several ways: 1st, when with his master's consent a slave had his name entered in the census

chattels received by him for and on account of his master or employer. Embezzlement differs from larceny in this, that in

be assigned. See also SUMMARY JUDGMENT. 2. To Judges' or Masters' Chambers.--The means by which one party brings the other before

2 : a referral esp. to a legislative committee or master ;also : an order referring a matter to a master

who performs duties about the person or home of a master or personal employer b : a person in the employ

handicraft or trade but has not received recognition as a master distinguished from apprentice and from master workman

servant acts under the direct control and supervision of his master and is bound to conform to all reasonable orders given

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