A rogue; vagrant; whoremonger ; a person given to all manner of wickedness. Cowell.

Associations or secret societies formed in Ireland, having for their object the dispossession of landlords by murder and fire-raising. Wharton.

When a holding is at its highest price and a firm will benefit from selling it.

An advertisement on the internet that contains an animation, flashing colours, audio and other range of enhancements.

Developed by Microsoft it is a standard that is compatible with all word processors and allows exchange of digital documents.

otherwise TROUBLESOME. The casual ejector and fictitious de- fendant in ejectment, whose services are no longer invoked.

The quantitative measure of an earthquake that is indicative of the energy released at a point 100 miles from its epicentre. It is a logarithmic scale .

pan. In Spanish law. A nobleman; a count or baron. 1 White, Recop. 30.

A rider, or rider-roll, signifies a schedule or small piece of parchment an- nexed to some part of a roll or record. It is frequently familiarly used for any kind […]

See RIDER.

A half-castrated horse. Bris- co v. State, 4 Tex. App. 221, 30 Am. Rep. 102.

In English law . The offense of riding or going armed with dan- gerous or unusual weapons is a misdemeanor tending to disturb the public peace by terrifying the good […]

In English law . One of the six clerks in chancery who, in liis turn for one year, kept the controluient books of all grants that passed the great seal. […]

(corrupted from trithinps.) Tlie names of the parts or divisions of York- shire, which, of course, are three only, viz., East hiding. North Riding, and West Riding.

Legislation allowing national banks to set up offices all over the nation.

L. Fr. Nothing. It appears in a few law French phrases.

In old English law . After-county; i. e., after the end of the county court . A time and place appointed by the sheriff for tlie receipt of the king’s […]

A strategy used in marketing where the concentration of efforts is based on a narrow area in order to achieve the objective.

A coppice or thicket Cowell.

In old European law. A species of service and tribute rendered to their lords by agricultural tenants. Supposed by Spelman to be derived from the name of a certain portion […]

A term of the stock-exchange, denoting the practice of inflating the price of given stocks, or enhancing their quoted value, by a system of pretended purchases, designed to give the […]

comprehended four gavels, and every gavel had four rliandirs, and four houses or tene- ments constituted every rhandir. Tayl. Ilist. Gav. 09.

a test that is given to an accused person to see if he knew right from wrong when he committed the crime.

An abolished writ which lay for tenants in ancient demesne , and others of a similar nature, to try the right of their lands and tenements in the court of […]

This is a phrase frequently used in place of chose in action , and having an identical meaning.