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Small tithes

Small tithes [otherwise called privy], all personal and mixed tithes, and also hops, flax, saffrons, potatoes, and sometimes, by custom, wood, 2 Steph. Com

Roe, Richard

Roe, Richard, otherwise Troublesome, the casual ejector and fictitious defendant in ejectment, whose services are no longer invoked. See JOHN DOE,

Moravians

Moravians, otherwise called Herrnhutters or United Brethren. A sect of Christians exempted from military service in America by 22 Geo.

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Mixed larceny

Mixed larceny, otherwise called compound or complicated larceny, that which is combined with circumstances of aggravation, as violence to the person,

Charter-land

Charter-land, otherwise called bookland, property held by deed under certain rents and free-services. It in effect difers nothing from the

Jedburgh Justice

Jedburgh Justice, otherwise called Jeddart Justice, that unjust procedure whereby a person is sentenced first and tried afterwards. Jedburgh is a

Dyvour

Dyvour (otherwise Bare-man), a Scotch term for a person involved in debt, and unable to pay his creditors; synonymous with the word bankrupt, Skene

Otherways

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Aliter

Aliter (otherwise).

Alias

Alias (otherwise), a second or further writ, which was issued after a first writ had expired without effect. Abolished by the (English) Common Law Procedure Act, 1852, s. 10. As to concurrent writs, see R. S....

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