Money paid on enlisting or impressing soldiers or sailors.

Lat. Beyond price; Invaluable.

Lat. Let it be printed. A license or allowance, granted by the constitutedauthorities, giving permission to print and publish a book. This allowance wasformerly necessary, in England, before any book […]

To press upon; to impress or press; to imprint or print.

In some of the ancient English statutes this word is used to signify aprinting-office, the art of printing, a print or impression.

Lat. In the first place; first of all.

To put in a prison ; to put in a place of confinement .To confine a person, or restrain his liberty, In any way.

The act of putting or confining a man in prison ; the restraint of a man’s personal liberty ; coercion exercised upon a person to prevent the free exercise of […]

Adherents; followers. Those who side with or take the part of another,either in his defense or otherwise.

a term that means a thing is difficult to believe such as improbable testimony or alibi.

In Scotch law. An action brought for the purpose of having someinstrument declared false and forged. 1 Fori). Inst. pt. 4, p. 101. The verb “improve” (q.v.) was used In […]

Not suitable; unfit; not suited to the character, time, and place. Palmerv. Concord, 48 N. II. 211. 97 Am. Dec. 005. Wrongful. 53 Law J. P. D. 05.

the behaviour that a reasonable and sensible person would not do.

This means to bring undue pressure upon a person to try to get them to do something that they wouldn’t normally do.

In ecclesiastical law . Commonly signifies a lay rector asopposed to a spiritual rector; just as impropriate tithes are tithes in the hands of a layowner, as opposed to appropriate […]

In ecclesiastical law . The annexing an ecclesiastical benefice tothe use of a lay person, whether individual or corporate, In the same way as appropriationis the annexing of any such […]

In Scotch law. To disprove ; to invalidate or impeach; to prove false orforged. 1 Forb. Inst. pt. 4, p. 102.To improve a lease means to grant a lease of […]

Improved land is such as has been reclaimed, is used for the purpose ofhusbandry, and is cultivated as such, whether the appropriation is for tillage, meadow,or pasture. “Improve” is synonymous […]

A valuable addition made to property (usually real estate ) or an amelioration in its condition, amounting to more than mere repairs or replacement of waste, costing labor or capital, […]

A term used in leases, of doubtful meaning. It would seem toapply principally to buildings, though generally it extends to the amelioration of everydescription of property, whether real or personal; […]

as used in a statute excluding one found incompetent to executethe duties of an administrator by reason of improvidence , means that want of care andforesight in the management of […]

the term that is given to a judgement or an order handed down by a court that has been based on erroneous information .

A judgment, decree, rule, Injunction , etc., when given or renderedwithout adequate consideration by the court, or without proper information as toall the circumstances affecting it, or based upon a […]

In old records. To improve land. Impruiaincntum, the improvement so made of it. Cowell.

Lat. In the civil law . A minor under the age of puberty; a male underfourteen years of age; a female under twelve. Calvin; Mackeld. Rom. Law,