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The offense of importing prohibited articles, or of defrauding the revenue by the introduction of articles into consumption, without paying the duties chargeable upon them. It may be committed Indifferently either upon the excise or customs revenue. Wharton. … [Read more...] about SMUGGLING

An arm of a river, flowing between islands and the main-land, and separating the islands from one another. Sloughs have not the breadth of the main river, nor does the main body of water of the stream flow through them. Dunlieth & D. Bridge Co. v. Dubuque County, 55 Iowa, 565 8 N. W. 443. … [Read more...] about SLOUGH

A small duty which was paid by servile tenants in Wy legh to the abbot of Colchester. Cowell. … [Read more...] about SNOTTERING SILVER

A rent paid to the castle of Wigmore, in lieu of certain days' work in harvest, heretofore reserved to the lord from his tenants. Cowell. … [Read more...] about SLOUGH SILVER

This term is sometimes the equivalent of "hence," or "therefore," and it is thus understood whenever what follows is an illustration of, or conclusion from, what has gone before. Clem v. State, 33 Ind. 431. … [Read more...] about SO