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A royalty or privilege granted by royal charter to a lord of a manor, of having, keeping, and judging in his court, his bondmen, neifes, and villains, and their offspring, or suit, that is, goods and chattels, and appurtenances thereto. Burrill.

ic era. (b) The rock formation of that period; -- called also Tertiary formation. See the Chart of Geology. -- Tertiary syphilis (Med.), the third and last stage of syphilis, in which it invades the bones and internal organs.

stones, and the period is divided into the Trenton, Utica, and Cincinnati epochs. See the Chart of Geology.

hetland and the Orkney Islands, where udal designates land held in fee simple without any charter and free of any feudal character.

rase used frequently in relation to acts or enactments by corporations in excess of their chartered or statutory rights.

A chart or catalogue of fixed stars, especially of stars visible to the naked eye.

to deprive of force; to make of no authority or validity; as, to vacate a commission or a charter; to vacate proceedings in a cause. That after act vacating the authority of the precedent. Eikon Basilike. The necessity of observing the Jewish Sabbath was Vacated by the apostolical institution of the Lord's Day. R. Nels…

The act of vacating; a making void or of no force; as, the vacation of an office or a charter.

A map or chart showing the principal meteorological elements at a given hour and over an extended region. Such maps usually show the height of the barometer, the temperature of the air, the relative humidity, the state of the weather, and the direction and velocity of the wind. Isobars and isotherms outline the general…