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Bar :: Bar (n.) The whole body of lawyers licensed in a court or district; the legal profession.

Procedure :: Procedure (n.) A step taken; an act performed; a proceeding; the steps taken in an action or other legal proceeding.

Posse Comitatus :: Posse comitatus () The power of the county, or the citizens who may be summoned by the sheriff to assist the authorities in suppressing a riot, or executing any legal precept which is forcibly opposed..

Bigamy :: Bigamy (n.) The offense of marrying one person when already legally married to another.

Shyster :: Shyster (n.) A trickish knave; one who carries on any business, especially legal business, in a mean and dishonest way..

Felonious :: Felonious (a.) Having the quality of felony; malignant; malicious; villainous; traitorous; perfidious; in a legal sense, done with intent to commit a crime; as, felonious homicide..

Attachment :: Attachment (n.) A seizure or taking into custody by virtue of a legal process.

Contraband :: Contraband (n.) Illegal or prohibited traffic.

Qualify :: Qualify (v. t.) To make such as is required; to give added or requisite qualities to; to fit, as for a place, office, occupation, or character; to furnish with the knowledge, skill, or other accomplishment necessary for a purpose; to make capable, as of an employment or privilege; to supply with legal power or capacity..

Light :: Light (superl.) Not of the legal, standard, or usual weight; clipped; diminished; as, light coin..

Executioner :: Executioner (n.) One who puts to death in conformity to legal warrant, as a hangman..

Appurtenance :: Appurtenance (n.) That which belongs to something else; an adjunct; an appendage; an accessory; something annexed to another thing more worthy; in common parlance and legal acceptation, something belonging to another thing as principal, and which passes as incident to it, as a right of way, or other easement to land; a right of common to pasture, an outhouse, barn, garden, or orchard, to a house or messuage. In a strict legal sense, land can never pass as an appurtenance to land..

Eligible :: Eligible (a.) That may be selected; proper or qualified to be chosen; legally qualified to be elected and to hold office.

Vote :: Vote (n.) Expression of judgment or will by a majority; legal decision by some expression of the minds of a number; as, the vote was unanimous; a vote of confidence..

Verdict :: Verdict (n.) The answer of a jury given to the court concerning any matter of fact in any cause, civil or criminal, committed to their examination and determination; the finding or decision of a jury on the matter legally submitted to them in the course of the trial of a cause..

Satisfy :: Satisfy (a.) To answer or discharge, as a claim, debt, legal demand, or the like; to give compensation for; to pay off; to requite; as, to satisfy a claim or an execution..

Nullification :: Nullification (n.) The act of nullifying; a rendering void and of no effect, or of no legal effect..

Concubinage :: Concubinage (n.) The cohabiting of a man and a woman who are not legally married; the state of being a concubine.

Remitter :: Remitter (n.) The sending or placing back of a person to a title or right he had before; the restitution of one who obtains possession of property under a defective title, to his rights under some valid title by virtue of which he might legally have entered into possession only by suit..

Oblige :: Oblige (v. t.) To constrain by physical, moral, or legal force; to put under obligation to do or forbear something..

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