A place covered with standing water. … [Read more...]

A discharge or freedom from amercements where one, having been an outlawed fugitive, cometh to the place of our lord of his own accord. Termes de la Ley. The liberty to hold court and take up the amercements for beating and striking. Cowell. The fine set on a fugitive as the price of obtaining the king's freedom. Spelman. … [Read more...]

A national standard on which are certain emblems; an ensign; a banner. It is carried by soldiers, ships, etc., and commonly displayed at forts and many other suitable places. Flag;, duty of the. This was an ancient ceremony in acknowledgment of British sovereignty over the British seas, by which a foreign vessel struck her flag and lowered her top-sail on meeting the British … [Read more...]

To run away from, e.g. to flee justice, to flee the scene of a crime. … [Read more...]

By the act entitled, An act to establish the flag of the United States, passed April 4, 1818, 3 Story's L. U. S., 1667, it is enacted2. Section 1. That from and after the fourth day of July next, the flag of the United States be thirteen horizontal stripes, alternate red and white: that the union be twenty stars, white in a blue field. 3. Section 2. That, on the admission of … [Read more...]