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Suspension :: Suspension (n.) Of the action or execution of law, etc.; as, the suspension of the habeas corpus act..

Termer :: Termer (n.) One who resorted to London during the law term only, in order to practice tricks, to carry on intrigues, or the like..

Government :: Government (n.) The person or persons authorized to administer the laws; the ruling power; the administration.

Rescue :: Rescue (v.) The forcible retaking, or taking away, against law, of things lawfully distrained..

Sentence :: Sentence (n.) In civil and admiralty law, the judgment of a court pronounced in a cause; in criminal and ecclesiastical courts, a judgment passed on a criminal by a court or judge; condemnation pronounced by a judgical tribunal; doom. In common law, the term is exclusively used to denote the judgment in criminal cases..

Portgrave :: Portgrave () In old English law, the chief magistrate of a port or maritime town.; a portreeve..

Mufti :: Mufti (n.) An official expounder of Mohammedan law.

Corporate :: Corporate (a.) Formed into a body by legal enactment; united in an association, and endowed by law with the rights and liabilities of an individual; incorporated; as, a corporate town..

Headnote :: Headnote (n.) A note at the head of a page or chapter; in law reports, an abstract of a case, showing the principles involved and the opinion of the court..

Lynch :: Lynch (v. t.) To inflict punishment upon, especially death, without the forms of law, as when a mob captures and hangs a suspected person. See Lynch law..

Claw :: Claw (v. i.) To scrape, scratch, or dig with a claw, or with the hand as a claw..

Fornication :: Fornication (n.) Unlawful sexual intercourse on the part of an unmarried person; the act of such illicit sexual intercourse between a man and a woman as does not by law amount to adultery.

Outlaw :: Outlaw (n.) A person excluded from the benefit of the law, or deprived of its protection..

Justly :: "Justly (a.) In a just manner; in conformity to law, justice, or propriety; by right; honestly; fairly; accurately..

Court-martial :: Court-martial (n.) A court consisting of military or naval officers, for the trial of one belonging to the army or navy, or of offenses against military or naval law..

Karaite :: Karaite (n.) A sect of Jews who adhere closely to the letter of the Scriptures, rejecting the oral law, and allowing the Talmud no binding authority; -- opposed to the Rabbinists..

Lawe :: Lawe (v. t.) To cut off the claws and balls of, as of a dog's fore feet..

Liberal :: Liberal (a.) Not strict or rigorous; not confined or restricted to the literal sense; free; as, a liberal translation of a classic, or a liberal construction of law or of language..

Geometrically :: Geometrically (adv.) According to the rules or laws of geometry.

Guaranty :: Guaranty (n.) In law and common usage: To undertake or engage that another person shall perform (what he has stipulated); to undertake to be answerable for (the debt or default of another); to engage to answer for the performance of (some promise or duty by another) in case of a failure by the latter to perform; to undertake to secure (something) to another, as in the case of a contingency. See Guarantee, v. t..

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