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581 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. EVICTED.1 (Noah Webster)
EVICTED, pp. Dispossessed by sentence of law; applied to persons. Recovered by legal process; applied to things.
582 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. EXACTOR.3 (Noah Webster)
1. An extortioner; one who compels another to pay more than is legal or reasonable; one who demands something without pity or regard to justice.
583 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. EXECUTE.7 (Noah Webster)
6. To complete, as a legal instrument; to perform what is required to give validity to a writing, as by signing and sealing; as, to execute a deed or lease.
584 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. EXECUTION.5 (Noah Webster)
3. The act of signing and sealing a legal instrument, or giving it the forms required to render it a valid act; as the execution of a deed.
585 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. EXECUTIONER.1 (Noah Webster)
EXECUTIONER, n. One who executes; one who carries into effect a judgment of death; one who inflicts a capital punishment in pursuance of a legal warrant. It is chiefly used in this sense.
586 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. EXTRAJUDICIAL.1 (Noah Webster)
EXTRAJUDICIAL, a. [extra, without, and judicial.] of the proper court, or the ordinary course of legal procedures.
587 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. EXTRAJUDICIALLY.1 (Noah Webster)
EXTRAJUDICIALLY, adv. In a manner out of the ordinary course of legal proceedings.
588 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. FIXTURE.5 (Noah Webster)
4. That which is fixed to a building; any appendage or part of the furniture of a house which is fixed to it, as by nails, screws, etc., and which the tenant cannot legally take away, when he removes to another house.
589 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. FLESH.24 (Noah Webster)
12. Legal righteousness, and ceremonial services.
590 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. FORENSIC.2 (Noah Webster)
Belonging to courts of judicature; used in courts or legal proceedings; as a forensic term; forensic eloquence or disputes.
591 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. FORISFAMILIATE.2 (Noah Webster)
To renounce a legal title to a further share of paternal inheritance. Literally, to put one’s self out of the family.
592 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. GAME.10 (Noah Webster)
8. Animals pursued or taken in the chase, or in the sports of the field; animals appropriated in England to legal sportsmen; as deer, hares, etc.
593 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. GARNISHMENT.2 (Noah Webster)
1. Warning; legal notice to the agent or attorney of an absconding debtor.
594 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. GOOD.2 (Noah Webster)
1. Valid; legally firm; not weak or defective; having strength adequate to its support; as a good title; a good deed; a good claim.
595 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. HABITANCY.1 (Noah Webster)
HABITANCY, n. Legal settlement or inhabitancy. [See Inhabitancy .]
596 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. HIRE.2 (Noah Webster)
1. To procure from another person and for temporary use, at a certain price, or for a stipulated or reasonable equivalent; as, to hire a farm for a year; to hire a horse for a day; to hire money at legal interest.
597 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. HOLD.24 (Noah Webster)
15. To confine; to bind; in a legal or moral sense. He is held to perform his covenants.
598 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. HYPOTHECATE.2 (Noah Webster)
… the legal rate of interest.
599 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. Il.1 (Noah Webster)
… , not legal; or it denotes to or on, and merely augments or enforces the sense, as in illuminate.
600 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ILLEGAL.1 (Noah Webster)
ILLEGAL, a. [See Legal .] Not legal; unlawful; contrary to law; illicit; as an illegal act; illegal trade.