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Dram

A weight in Apothecaries weight one eighth part of an ounce or sixty grains in Avoirdupois weight

Oxgang

one year, usually 12 to 15 acres. An oxgang, equaling one-eighth of a carcucate, was used to assess land for tax

Levy

in Pennsylvania Maryland and Virginia to the Spanish real of one eighth of a dollar or 1212 cents valued at eleven pence

Furlong

49), s. 11, a furlong contains 220 imperial standard yards. One eighth of a mill or forty poles, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th

A voluntary conveyance of land, or transfer of goods, from one person to another, made gratuitously, and to upon any consideration … to another gratuitously. Gifts then, or grants, which are the eighth method of transferring personal property, are thus to be distinguished

Extinguishment

the annihilation of a collateral interest, or the supersedure of one interest by another and greater interest in that out of … this legal trap should be allowed to operate, Burton's Comp., 8th Edn. 352. If one of the tenants of a manor

Rubber

in its modified state free of all diluents, retracts within one minute to less than 1.5 times its original length after … is one such synthetic rubber latex. The Condensed Chemical Dictionary, 8th Edition, 1971, defines latex as a white free-flowing liquid obtained

cruel and unusual punishment

death penalty NOTE: A cruel and unusual punishment is essentially one that the courts consider to violate the Eighth Amendment based

Merger

swallows up the particular estate. It is the drowning of one estate in another, and differs from suspension, which is but … satisfied term and shall cease; and consult Coote on Mortgages, 8th Edn. pp. 1455 et seq. When an engagement has been

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