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A term used in Hindostan for a passport permit or order from the English East Indian Company. It generally meant a permit under their seal exempting goods from the payment of duties. Enc Lond. … [Read more...]

When a man has received a mortal wound or other injury, by which he is in imminent danger of dying, and believes that he must die, and afterwards does die, the statements he makes as to the manner in which he received such injury, and the person who committed it, are called his dying declarations. 2. These declarations are received in evidence against the person thus accused, … [Read more...]

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To die without children. At common law this phrase imports an indefinite failure of issue and not a dying without issue surviving at the time of the death of the first taker. But this rule has been changed in some of the states by statute or decisions. At common law this phrase imports an indefinite failure of issue, and not a dying without issue surviving at the time of the … [Read more...]