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Messuage

Messuage [fr. messuagium, Law Lat., formed perhaps fr. mesnage, by mistake of the n, in court hand, for u, they...

Special indorsement, an indorsement in full on a bill of exchange or promissory note, which, besides the signature of the...

Value, a relative term. The value of a thing may refer to a certain standard with which the thing can...

Trade Union. The Acts 30 & 31 Vict. cc. 8, 74, provided for facilitating the proceedings of a commission appointed...

Torture, an account of this atrocious expedient may be found in the Encyclop'dia Britannica (tit. 'Torture'). Reference may also be...

Titles of Honour, are a species of incorporeal hereditament: see Co. Litt. 20 a, and Mr. Hargrave's note (3); Earl...

State trials, a work in thirty-three volumes octavo (from which 'selections' were brought out by Mr. J. Willis-Bund in 1880),...

Digest, generally a compilation or distribution of a subject into various classes or departments; particularly the Pandects of Justinian in...

Significavit, a writ issuing out of the Chancery upon certificate given by the ordinary of a man's standing excommunicate by...

Name and arms clause, a clause enjoining persons on whom property or estates are settled, either by deed or will,...