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Making or doing throughly; efficient; effectual. [R.] Blackstone.

king or reception, as the receiving of rents or tithes in kind, the receiving of profits. Blackstone.

of Eng.), a curacy in which all the tithes are appropriated, and no vicarage is endowed. Blackstone. -- Perpetual motion. See under Motion. -- Perpetual screw. See Endless screw, under Screw.

ons. Encyc. Brit. Artificial, or Fictitious, person (Law), a corporation or body politic. blackstone. -- Natural person (Law), a man, woman, or child, in distinction from a corporation. -- In person, by one's self; with bodily presence; not by representative. "The king himself in person is set forth." Shak. -- In th…

ugh, as an aperture, pore, or interstice; to permeate. That labyrinth is easily pervaded. Blackstone.

ery fair and market, of which the steward of him who owned or had the toll was the judge. Blackstone.

The right or privilege of fishing in another man's waters. Blackstone.

in which a person sets forth his cause of action; the exhibiting of an action in writing. Blackstone.

arry on the allegations of the respective parties in a cause; to carry on a suit or plea. Blackstone. Burrill. Stephen.

the plaintiff, until issue is joined, and the question made to rest on some single point. Blackstone.

The state of a benefice when occupied. Blackstone.

tion by which the various departments of government are combined into a systematic whole. Blackstone. Hooker.

ered in place are to remove . . . and not to return till one day after the poll is ended. Blackstone.

pular action (Law), an action in which any person may sue for penalty imposed by statute. Blackstone.

In old English law, a court, or mote, held in a port town. [Obs.] Blackstone.

horities in suppressing a riot, or executing any legal precept which is forcibly opposed. Blackstone.

isseizes another of lands which the disseizee had before recovered of the same disseizor. Blackstone.

The breaking of a public pound for releasing impounded animals. Blackstone.

ly granted to the crown on all goods exported or imported, and if by aliens, more. [Eng.] Blackstone.

Precedence of rank at the bar among lawyers. Blackstone.