Search the Dictionary

ct. [Obs.] Upon sufficient proof attainted of some open act by men of his own condition. Blackstone.

This is the act of feudatories, vassals, or tenants, upon the alienation of the estate. Blackstone.

reement of a tenant to acknowledge the purchaser of the estate as his landlord. Burrill. Blackstone.

A variety of pyroxene, usually of a black or dark green color, occurring in igneous rocks, such as basalt; -- also used instead of the general term pyroxene.

ks once popular in England and Ireland; -- called also regular canons of St. Austin, and black canons. -- Augustinian hermits or Austin friars, an order of friars established in 1265 by Pope Alexander IV. It was introduced into the United States from Ireland in 1790. -- Augustinian nuns, an order of nuns following th…

severe simplicity. Partly owing to the studied austerity of her dress, and partly to the lack of demonstration in her manners. Hawthorne.

; any broad passageway thus bordered. An avenue of tall elms and branching chestnuts. W. Black.

intiff may deny the defendant's plea, or confess it, and avoid it by stating new matter. Blackstone.

To acknowledge and justify, as an act done. See Avowry. Blackstone.

f goods, who, in an action of replevin, avows and justifies the taking in his own right. Blackstone.

mineral occurring in triclinic crystals approaching pyroxene in angle, and of a greenish black color. It is a silicate of iron, manganese, and lime.

fy their laws with rewards and punishments. South. The mate backed the captain manfully. Blackw. Mag.

fire to burn only against the wind, so that when the two fires meet both must go out for lack of fuel.

Whatever is thrown back in its course, as water. Slackwater, or the backset caused by the overflow. Harper's Mag.

s) have been often eroded into fantastic forms, and much intersected by canons, and where lack of wood, water, and forage increases the difficulty of traversing the country, whence the name, first given by the Canadian French, Mauvaises Terres (bad lands).

A large black seaweed (Alaria esculenta) sometimes eaten in Europe; -- also called murlins, honeyware, and henware.

The method of blackmailing by decoying a person into a compromising situation and extorting money by threats of exposure. [Cant]

ed; as, to bail cloth to a tailor to be made into a garment; to bail goods to a carrier. Blackstone. Kent.

a temporary possession and a qualified property in them, for the purposes of the trust. Blackstone.

ose, upon a contract, expressed or implied, that the trust shall be faithfully executed. Blackstone.