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.A state of the stomach In which its functions are disturbed, without thepresence of other diseases, or when, if other diseases are present, they are of minorimportance. Dungl. Med. Diet

In Scotch law. A bankrupt.

In Scotch law. A habit which debtors who are set free on a ccssiobonorum are obliged to wear, unless in the summons and process of ccssio it be libeled,PUB tained, and proved that the bankruptcy proeieds from misfortune. And bankruptsare condemned to submit to the habit, even where no suspicion of fraud lies againstthem, if they have been dealers in an illicit trade. Ersk. Prin. 4, 3, 13.

To have an abode; to Inhabit; to live in a place. Gardener v. Wagner, 9 Fed.Cas. 1,154; Ex parte Blumer, 27 Tex. 736; Putnam v. Johnson, 10 Mass. 502; Eatontownv. Shrewsbury, 49 N. J. Law, 188, 6 Atl. 319.

The house In which a man lives with his family; a residence ;the apartment or building, or group of buildings, occupied by a family as a place of residence.In conveyancing. Includes all buildings attached to or connected with the house. 2 Hil. Real Prop. 33S, and note.In the law of burglary. A house in which the occupier and his family usually reside,or, in other words, dwell and lie in. Whart. Crim. Law, 357.

This term is not synonymous with a “place of pauper settlement” Lisbon v. Lyman, 49 N. H. 553.Dwelling-place, or home, means some permanent abode or residence, with intentionto remain ; and Is not synonymous with “domicile,” as used in International law, buthas a more limited and restricted meaning. Jefferson v. Washington, 19 Me. 293.

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Statements made by a person who is lying at the point of death, and is conscious of his approaching dissolution, in reference to the manner in which he received the injuries of which he is dying, or other immediate cause of his death, and in reference to the person who inflicted such injuries or the connection with such injuries of a person who is charged or suspected of having committed them; which statements are admissible in evidence in a trial for homicide where the killing of the declarant is the crime charged to the defendant. Simons v. People, 150 III. 06, 36 N. E. 1019; State v. Trusty, 1 Pennewill (Del.) 319. 40 Atl. 706; State v. Jones, 47 La. Ann. 1524, 18 South. 515; Bell v. State, 72 Miss. 507. 17 South. 232; People v. Fuhrig, 127 Cal. 412, 59 Pac. 093; State v. Parham, 48 La. Ann. 1309, 20 South. 727.

A method of sale by auction which consists in the public offer of the property at a price beyond its value, and then gradually lowering the price until some one becomes the purchaser. Crandall v. State, 28 Ohio St. 482.

At .common law this phrase imports an indefinite failure ofissue, and not a dying without issue surviving at the time of the death of the first taker.But this rule has been changed in some of the states, by statute or decisions, and InEngland by St. 7 Wm. IV., and 1 Vict c. 26,