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521 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. BELONG.15 (Noah Webster)
9. To have a legal residence, settlement, or inhabitancy, whether by birth or operation of law, so as to be entitled to maintenance by the parish or town.
522 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. BELONGING.1 (Noah Webster)
BELONGING, ppr. Pertaining; appertaining; being the property of; being a quality of; being the concern of; being appendant to; being a native of, or having a legal or permanent settlement in.
523 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. BIPARTITE.2 (Noah Webster)
1. Having two correspondent parts, as a legal contract or writing, one for each party.
524 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. BLANK.13 (Noah Webster)
3. A paper containing the substance of a legal instrument, as a deed, release, writ or execution, with vacant spaces left to be filled with names, date, descriptions, etc.
525 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. BOTTOMRY.1 (Noah Webster)
… the legal rate of interest. The tackle of the ship also is answerable for the debt, as well as the person of the borrower. When a loan is made upon the goods shipped …
526 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CAMP-FIGHT.1 (Noah Webster)
CAMP-FIGHT, n. In law writers, a trial by duel, or the legal combat of two champions, for the decision of a controversy. [Camp in W. Is a game, and campiaw is to contend.]
527 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CAN.8 (Noah Webster)
… or legal competent power, that is, right; to be free from any restraint of moral, civil or political obligation, or from any positive prohibition. We can use a …
528 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CANONICAL.3 (Noah Webster)
… be legally performed in the church.
529 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CAPABLE.7 (Noah Webster)
6. Qualified for, in a moral sense; having legal power or capacity; as, a bastard is not capable of inheriting an estate.
530 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CAPACITATE.3 (Noah Webster)
2. To endue with moral qualifications; to qualify; to furnish with legal powers; as, to capacitate one for an office.
531 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CAPACITY.8 (Noah Webster)
5. Ability, in a moral or legal sense; qualification; legal power or right; as, a man or a corporation may have a capacity to give or receive and hold estate.
532 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CAUSE.2 (Noah Webster)
… ; any legal process which a party institutes to obtain his demand, or by which he seeks his right or his supposed right. This is a legal, scriptural and popular …
533 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CESS.2 (Noah Webster)
CESS, v.i. To neglect a legal duty.
534 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CHANCERY.2 (Noah Webster)
… ordinary legal court holds pleas of recognizance acknowledged in the chancery, writs of scire facias, for repeal of letters patent, writs of partition, and …
535 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CITE.2 (Noah Webster)
1. To call upon officially, or authoritatively; to summon; to give legal or official notice, as to a defendant to appear in court, to answer or defend.
536 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CIVIL.16 (Noah Webster)
12. Civil year, the legal year, or annual account of time which a government appoints to be used in its own dominions, as distinguished from the natural year, which is measured by the revolution of the heavenly bodies.
537 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CLEAR.41 (Noah Webster)
10. In a legal sense, to acquit on trial, by verdict; as, the prisoner has been tried and cleared.
538 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. COGNIZANCE.7 (Noah Webster)
… it legally as the bailiff of another person who had a right to distrain.
539 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. COHABIT.3 (Noah Webster)
2. To dwell or live together as husband and wife; usually or often applied to persons not legally married.
540 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. COHABITATION.3 (Noah Webster)
2. The state of living together as man and wife, without being legally married.