A poison; a toxic agent; any substance capable of producing toxlcaton or poisoning. … [Read more...]

In French law. An easement consisting of the right to rest ladders upon the adjoining estate, when necessary in order to repair a party-wall or buildings supported by it. Also the vacant space surrounding a building left unoccupied In order to facilitate its reparation when necessary. Herl. Repert. … [Read more...]

To poison. Not used to describe the act of one who administers a poison, but the action of the drug or poison itself." Intoxication. The state of being poisoned; the condition produced by the administration or introduction into the human system of a poison. This term is popularly used as equivalent to "drunkenness, which, however, is more accurately described as "alcoholic … [Read more...]

L. Latin: In the old reports. The whole court. … [Read more...]

The Massachusetts act of assembly of 1805, c. 100, which provided that the tools of any debtor necessary for his trade and occupation, should be exempted from execution, was held to designate those implements which are commonly used by the hand of one man, in some manual labor necessary for his subsistence. The apparatus of a printing office, such as types, presses are not … [Read more...]