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f an obligation or testamentary disposition is made to depend. Blount. Tomlins. Bouvier. Wharton. Equation of condition. (Math.) See under Equation. -- On or Upon condition (that), used for if in introducing conditional sentences. "Upon condition thou wilt swear to pay him tribute . . . thou shalt be placed as viceroy…

as adultery, with an implied condition that the offense shall not be repeated. Bouvier. Wharton.

the issue to which it applies; an extrajudical confession may be explained or rebutted. Wharton. Confession and avoidance (Law), a mode of pleading in which the party confesses the facts as stated by his adversary, but alleges some new matter by way of avoiding the legal effect claimed for them. Mozley & W. Confession…

ng from conference. Consultary response (Law), the opinion of a court on a special case. Wharton.

a horizontal plane intersects a portion of ground, or the corresponding line in a map or chart.

belligerent except at the risk of seizure and condemnation by the aggrieved belligerent. Wharton.

to do, a particular thing; a formal bargain; a compact; an interchange of legal rights. Wharton.

ducing the injury, and which bars recovery when it is the proximate cause of the injury. Wharton.

ircumstances of the case in view, to produce a subsiding of passion previously provoked. Wharton.

erary or artistic work, exclusively of all other persons. This right may be had in maps, charts, engravings, plays, and musical compositions, as well as in books.

Set or covered with cottages. Even humble Harting's cottaged vale. Collins.

declaration or indictment, separately setting forth the cause of action or prosecution. Wharton.

unning game with dogs that follow by sight instead of by scent. In coursing of a deer, or hart, with greyhounds. Bacon

to extirpate popery and prelacy; -- usually called the "Solemn League and Covenant." He [Wharton] was born in the days of the Covenant, and was the heir of a covenanted house. Macualay.

eeds of Croton Tiglium, a small tree of the East Indies. It is a most powerful drastic cathartic, and is used externally as a pustulant.

implies intent, culpa being imputable to defect of intellect, dolus to defect of heart. Wharton.

. Veronica, Virginica) common in most moist woods of North America , used as an active cathartic and emetic; also, the plant itself.

Given by same testator to the same legatee; -- said of a legacy. Bouvier. Wharton.

h dashing prow. Byron. He smiled a king of sickly smile, and curled up on the floor. Bret Harte. . 358

th Upon a cord. Gower. To chase a creature that was current then In these wild woods, the hart with golden horns. Tennyson.