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In Spanish law. The finding and taking possession of something which previously had no owner, and which thus becomes the property of the flrst occupant. Las Partidas, 3, 5, 28; 5, 48, 49 ; 5, 20, 50. … [Read more...] about HALLAZCO

pleading. It is the peculiar form of a defence, which is as follows, venit et defendit vim et injuriam, et dicit, It differs from full defence. Vide Defence; Et cetera; … [Read more...] about HALF DEFENCE

In Saxon law. Haligemot, (q. v.) … [Read more...] about HALLE-GEMOTE

money. A silver coin of the United States, of the value of one twentieth part of a dollar, or five cents. It weighs twenty grains and five-eighths of a grain. Of one thousand parts, nine hundred are of pure silver, and one hundred are of alloy. Act of January 18, 1837, s. 8 and 9,4 Sharswood's cont. of Story's L. U. S. 2523, 4. Vide Money. … [Read more...] about HALF DIME

In medical jurisprudence. A trick or deceit of the senses; a morbid error either of the sense of sight or that of hearing, or possibly of the other senses; a psychological state, such as would be produced naturally by an act of sense-perception, attributed confidently, but mistakenly, to something which has no objective existence ; as, when the patient imagines that he sees an … [Read more...] about HALLUCINATION