In old English law. The loose scattered ears of corn that are left on the ground after the binding. … [Read more...]

A maple tree. Not to be confounded with arabilis, (arable land.) … [Read more...]

The gradual eating away of the soil by the operation of currents or tides. Distinguished from submergence which is the disappearance of the soil under the water and the formation of a navigable body over it. … [Read more...]

The followers of Erastus. The sect obtained much influence in England, particularly among common lawyers in the time of Selden. They held that offenses against religion and morality should be punished by the civil power, and not by the censures of the church or by excommunication. Wharton. … [Read more...]

med. jur. A name given to a morbid activity of the sexual propensity. It is a disease or morbid affection of the mind, which fills it with a crowd of voluptuous images, and hurries its victim to acts of the grossest licentiousness, in the absence of any lesion of the intellectual powers. Vide Mania. … [Read more...]