1. Document containing the reason for escrow, escrowed, the conditions for holding and releasing escrow, and what to do with the escrowed items when escrow ends. 2. Document listing item […]

In old English law . An escrow ; a scroll. “And deliver the deed to astranger, as an escrowl.” Perk. c. 1,

Service of the shield. One of the varieties of tenure in knight’s service,the duty imposed being that of accompanying the king to the wars for forty days, at thetenant’s own […]

To scour or cleanse. Cowell.

A church. Jacob.

Robbers, or destroyers of other men’s lands and fortunes. Cowell.

Tackle or furniture ; outfit. Certain towns in England were boundto furnish certain ships at their own expense and with double skippage or tackle.Cowell.

To ship.

Shippage, or passage by sea. Spelled, also, “skippcson.” Cowell.

See ELISORS.

In old law. A hireling of servile condition.

Seniority; the

In Spanish law. A junction of all the separate papers made in thecourse of any one proceeding and which remains In the office at the close of it. Castillerov. U. […]

A period of time fixed by law or by a court within which certain acts are tobe performed, e. g., the production of papers, payment of debts, etc.

L. Fr. Spurs.

An old term for the products which the ground or land yields; as the hayof the meadows, the herbage of the pasture, corn of arable fields, rent and services,etc. The […]

1. A promise to marry or an engagement. 2. To adopt a principle or a cause.

A mutual promise between a man and a woman to marry each other atsome other time. It differs from a marriage, because then the contract is completed.Wood, Inst. 57.

Values and morals essential to the development and improvement of standards on how business is done in a company.

Span. In Spanish law. A spurious child; one begotten on a womanwho has promiscuous intercourse with many men. White, New Recop. b. 1, tit 5, c. 2,

In English law. A title of dignity next above gentleman, and below knight.Also a title of oflice given to sheriffs, serjeants, and barristers at law, justices of thepeace, and others. […]

L. Fr. To cut down woods to clear land of trees and underwood; properlyto thin woods, by cutting trees, etc., at intervals. Spelman.

Woodlands turned Into tillage by uprooting the trees and removing theunderwood.

That which is indispensable to that of which it is the essence.

This term is the portion of a contract that is vital.