Deceitful; fraudulent; hav- K ing the nature of, or tainted by, covin.

Pusillanimity; fear; misbehavior through fear in relation to some duty to be performed before an enemy. O’Brien, Ct M. 142; Coil v. State, 62 Neb. 15, 80 N. W. 925.

In Scotch law. A written voucher for a debt Bell. In civil and canon law. Au instrument written out and subscribed by the hand of the party who made it […]

Equity never counteracts the laws.

A SPREAD in the energy market reflecting the price differential between crude oil and a refined product, generally gasoline or heating oil; the spread can be traded through a single […]

1. A general term, now commonly applied to all kinds of sailing vessels, __ though formerly restricted to the smaller n| vessels. The Wenonah, 21 Grat. (Va.) 697; Reed v. […]

This term is applied to a labour organisation, union, where all of the members are in the same occupation or the same trade.

A process where creditors with existing CREDIT RISK to a company that has filed a REORGANIZATION plan under BANKRUPTCY protection choose not to participate in the new plan and have […]

A liberty to use a crane for drawing up goods and wares of burden from ships and vessels, at any creek of the sea, or wharf, unto the land, and […]

A term vulgarly applied to a person of eccentric, ill-regulated, and unpractical mental habits; a person half-crazed : a monomaniac; not necessarily equivalent to “insane person,” “lunatic,” or any other […]

Gross neglect; absence of ordinary care and diligence. Hun v. Cary, 82 N. Y. 72, 37 Am. Rep. 546.

Large; gross; excessive; extreme. Crass a ignorantia, gross ignorance. Fleta, lib. 5, c. 22,

On the morrow, the day after. The return-day of writs; because the first day of the term was always some saint’s day, and writs were returnable on the day after. […]

The others being silent : the other judges expressing no opinion. Comb. 18G.

An iron gate before a prison. 1 Vent. 304.

To ask or demand; as to crave oyer. See OYER.

In old English law . A word of disgrace and obloquy, pronounced on either champion, in the ancient trial by battle. proving recreant, i. e

A FOREIGN EXCHANGE PEGGING process based on official CENTRAL BANK intervention activity that adjusts the value of the local currency through small preannounced changes or average target rates over a […]

A creditor. Cowell.

A foreign merchant, but generally taken for one who has a stall in a fair or market. Blount.

We create. One of the words by which a corporation in England was formerly created by the king. 1 Bl. Comm. 473.

In French law . A claim; a debt; also belief, credit, faith.

One who trusts or gives credit; a creditor. Britt cc. 28, 78.

To bring into being; to cause to exist; to produce; as, to create a trust in lands, to create a corporation . Edwards v. Bibb, 54 Ala. 481; McClellan v. […]

In international law . The instruments which authorize and establish a public minister in his character with the state or prince to whom they are addressed. If the state or […]