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ruption of a right; as, the disturbance of a franchise, of common, of ways, and the like. Blackstone.

Vested or vesting by donation; as, a donative advowson. Blackstone.

owment; establishment of funds for support, as of a hospital or eleemosynary corporation. Blackstone.

Capable of being endowed; entitled to dower. Blackstone.

w enjoys during her life, or to which a woman is entitled after the death of her husband. Blackstone.

A team of oxen or horses. Blackstone.

prevailed until the early part of the 18th, and occasionally as late as the 19th century. Blackstone. Chambers.

The use of two or more distinct allegations or answers, where one is sufficient. Blackstone.

Eldest; firstborn. Blackstone.

s goods liable to distress. The sheriff may return that the goods or beasts are eloigned. Blackstone.

To attempt to influence corruptly, as a jury or court. Blackstone.

The state of being entire; completeness; as, entirely of interest. Blackstone.

A writ, now abolished, to recover escheats from the person in possession. Blackstone.

t is done or some condition is performed, and then to be by him delivered to the grantee. Blackstone.

own charge. It was afterward exchanged for a pecuniary satisfaction. Called also scutage. Blackstone.

w), the first general return day of the term, on which the court sits to receive essoins. Blackstone.

ned for felony of his estate, or alimony to a woman divorced out of her husband's estate. Blackstone. Common of estovers. See under Common, n.

of the other. Estates exchanged must be equal in quantity, as fee simple for fee simple. Blackstone.

future contingency; as, an executory devise, reminder, or estate; an executory contract. Blackstone.

winds have no power to extinguish. Prescott. This extinguishes my right to the reversion. Blackstone.