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A liberty to use a crane for drawing up goods and wares of burden from ships and vessels, at any creek of the sea, or wharf, unto the land, and to make a profit of doing so. It also signifies the money paid and taken for the service. Tomlins. … [Read more...]
TheLaw.com Law Dictionary & Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed.
A contraction, in the old books, of the word "convent." … [Read more...]
TheLaw.com Law Dictionary & Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed.
A term vulgarly applied to a person of eccentric,, ill-regulated, and unpractical mental habits; a person half-crazed; a monomaniac; not necessarily equivalent to "insane person," "lunatic," or any other term descriptive of complete mental derangement, and not carrying any implication of homicidal mania. Walker v. Tribune Co. (C. C.) 29 Fed. 827. … [Read more...]
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criminal law. The common name for the statute 22 and 23 Car. II. c. 1; it having been enacted in consequence of an assault on Sir John Coventry in the street, and slitting his nose, in revenge, as was supposed, for some obnoxious words uttered by him in parliament. 2. By this statute it is enacted, that if any person shall, of malice aforethought, and by laying in wait, … [Read more...]
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Large; gross; excessive; extreme. Crassa ignorantia, gross ignorance. Fleta, lib. 5, c. 22, … [Read more...]