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prisoner from the court is punished with perpetual imprisonment and forfeiture of goods. Blackstone. Rescue grass. Etym: [Etymol. uncertain.] (Bot.) A tall grass (Ceratochloa unioloides) somewhat resembling chess, cultivated for hay and forage in the Southern States.

els thereon, and keep the same in his custody till the arrival of the justices of assize. Blackstone.

firm his love entire. Milton. An executor may retain a debt due to him from the testator. Blackstone.

ation, of a suit in court by the plaintiff, by which he forever lost his right of action. Blackstone.

A day in bank. See Return day, below. Blackstone.

the reversal of an attainder, or of an outlawry, by which the sentence is rendered void. Blackstone.

r who is entitled to lands or tenements, after a particular estate granted is terminated. Blackstone.

h is abated by the death or marriage of any of the parties, -- done by a bill of revivor. Blackstone.

under the government of reeve. They are called the North, the East, and the West, Riding. Blackstone.

, a writ which lay to recover lands in fee simple, unjustly withheld from the true owner. Blackstone.

urt. And now the profits of a benefice are sequestered to pay the debts of ecclesiastics. Blackstone.

st rank, answering to the doctor of the civil law; -- called also serjeant at law. [Eng.] Blackstone.

e to the king in person, as to carry his banner, his sword, or the like. Tomlins. Cowell. Blackstone. -- Petit sergeanty. See under Petit.

entitles him to maintenance if a pauper, and subjects the parish or town to his support. Blackstone. Bouvier. Act of settlement (Eng. Hist.), the statute of 12 and 13 William III, by which the crown was limited to the present reigning house (the house of Hanover). Blackstone.

To disunite; to disconnect; to terminate; as, to sever an estate in joint tenancy. Blackstone.

rest with any other person; -- distinguished from joint tenancy, coparcenary, and common. Blackstone.

mondshire, Hallamshire. An indefinite number of these hundreds make up a county or shire. Blackstone.

shall have election of sheriff in every shire where the shrievalty is not of inheritance. Blackstone.

Artless; guileless; simple-hearted; undesigning; unsuspecting; devoid of duplicity. Blackstone. -- Sim"ple-mind`ed*ness, n.

tion takes place; as, the lime slakes. Slake trough, a trough containing water in which a blacksmith cools a forging or tool.