Eng. law., Places formerly permitted in England to women of professed lewdness, and who, for hire, would prostitute their bodies to all comers. 2. These places were so called because the dissolute persons who visited them prepared themselves by bathing; the word stews being derived from the old French estuves, stove, or hot bath. 3 Inst. 205. … [Read more...]

In the old books, to stop; to hesitate; to accede with reluctance, "The court stuck a little at this exception." 2 Show. 401. … [Read more...]

(1) An Inferior officer who cuts wood within the royal parks of Clarendon. Cowell. (2) An arbitrator. (3) An obstinate contender about anything. … [Read more...]

Agreeing, in consideration of receiving a pecuniary or other advantage, to abstain from prosecuting a person for an offense not giving rise to a civil remedy; e.g., perjury. Sweet … [Read more...]

A stillborn child is one born dead or in such an early stage of pregnancy as to be incapable of living though not actually dead at the time of birth. Children born within the first six months after conception are considered by the civil law as incapable of living and therefore though they are apparently born alive if they do not in fact survive so long as to rebut this … [Read more...]