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Borsholder

the discreetest man in the borough, town, or tithing. He was one of the principal inhabitants annually appointed to look after the rest, each separate community in the time of the Saxons being answerable as surety for the good

Advow, or Avow, or Avouch

the tenant involved the admission of all the duties implied in feudal tenancy, it was an act jealously looked after by the lords, and advocare, or the equivalent, Fr. avouer, to avow, came to signify the admission

Quest

The act of seeking or looking after anything attempt to find or obtain search pursuit as to rove in quest of game of a

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VerbarMedusa

The Gorgon or one of the Gorgons whose hair was changed into serpents after which all who looked upon her were turned into stone

Explore

To seek for or after to strive to attain by search to look wisely and carefully for

Skeptic

One who is yet undecided as to what is true one who is looking or inquiring for what is true an inquirer after facts or reasons

Abstract of title

trusts, if material to the title, must be carefully checked, and the covenants, particularly in leases, must be looked into, and, if equitable interests are material to the title it should be seen that all proper endorsements

present sense impression

present sense impression : an out-of-court statement that describes or explains an event or condition and that was made during or immediately after the time the event or condition was perceived ;also : an exception to...

Corporation or body politic

their private capacity, their share in the capital only being at stake: but in the latter the law looks, not to the partnership, but to the individual members of it, who are therefore answerable for the debts

Award

Award [the primitive sense of ward is shown in the It. Guardare, Fr. regarder, to look. Hence, Prov. Fr. eswarder (answering in form to award), to inspect goods, and, incidentally, to pronounce them good

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