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Page ix - Monosyllables and words accented on the last syllable, ending in a single consonant preceded by a single vowel, double the final consonant before a suffix beginning with a vowel; as, begin, beginning; run, running; put, putting; shop, shopping; prefer, preferred.
Page 110 - Thus, the grantor may deliver the deed to a third person, to be delivered by him to the grantee on...
Page 114 - An official commissioned to reside in a foreign country to care for the commercial interests of the citizens of the appointing government, to protect its seamen, etc.
Page 111 - A defeasance is an instrument which defeats the force or operation of some other deed or estate ; and that which in the same deed is called a condition, in another deed is a defeasance.
Page 120 - ... the science that investigates the conditions and laws affecting the production, distribution, and consumption of wealth, or the material means of satisfying human desires; political economy.
Page 113 - are things belonging to another thing as principal and which pass as incident to the principal thing. The term as used in conveyances passes nothing but the land and such things as belong thereto, and are part of the realty.
Page 40 - immigration" means the act of immigrating, and to immigrate is to come into a country of which one is not a native, and in which one has not acquired a residence or domicile.
Page 110 - English law larceny is defined to be the unlawful taking and carrying away of things personal with intent to deprive the right owner of the same and to make them the property of the taker.
Page 119 - Chemistry. The science that treats of the composition of substances and of the transformations which they undergo. There are two main groups. (a) Organic chemistry, which treats of the hydrocarbons and their derivatives, and (b) Inorganic chemistry treats of all other compounds, and of the elements.
Page 111 - Certiora'ri, in law, a writ issuing out of . a superior court to call up the records of an inferior court or remove a cause there depending, that it may be tried in the superior court.