Oath, a solemn affirmation which God is called upon to

witness.

Obligation, agreement, contract, bond.

Offal, waste meat, refuse, unfit for use.

Office, a public employment.

Officer, one engaged in a public employment.

Offense, transgression, injury, violation of law.

Operative, having the power of acting.

Organized, formed, arranged.

Pardon, forgiveness, remission.

Parental, pertaining to parents.

Pauper, a poor person who receives alms, or is supported

at the public charge.

Pecuniary, pertaining to money.

Penalty, a punishment, forfeiture.

Personate, to counterfeit, to represent.

Pertain, to belong, to relate.

Permanent, lasting, unchanged.

Personal Property, temporary and movable property.
Perjury [see page 158].

Petitions, requests, entreaties.

Plaintiff, the party who commences a suit.

Plurality, a greater number than some other, but not a majority of all.

Political, pertaining to a regular system or administration of government.

Polygamy, having more than one wife, or husband.

Posthumous children, those born after the death of the father, or taken from the dead body of the mother. Premeditated, to think beforehand.

Preceding, to go before in rank or time.

Prescribe, to order, direct.

Principal, chief.

Prior, antecedent, former, anterior.

Provocation, a cause of anger.

Provided, stipulated as a condition, on condition.

Proving, evincing, ascertaining as truth.

Professional, relating to a profession.

Propagate, to generate, increase.

Process, a writ issued out of a court.
Proficiency, improvement.

Protest, a declaration against a thing; a written declaration of the master of a vessel that an injury to it was not occasioned by his fault.

Prothonotary, a register or chief clerk of a court, in particular States.

Punt-gun, a small cannon, carried on a flat-bottomed boat, and usually used for sporting.

Puppet-Show, mock play by images.

Qualified, made fit; accomplished.

Quorum, a sufficient number to transact business.

Range, to place in order, ranks.

Real property, lands.

Rebellion, insurrection by the people against their own

country.

Reclaim, reform, correct, recall.

Recover, to win back, to gain as a compensation.

Relatively, having relation to something else.

Relevant, relative to, relating to.

Renounce, disavow.

Reproaching, censuring, upbraiding.

Representations, representing, describing, showing.

Reprieve, to respite from punishment.

Restrain, to withhold, repress, limit.

Resident, dwelling in a place.

Resident freeholder, one who resides on an estate of in

heritance, or for life.

Resolution, that which is determined or decided.

Resort, to go to, or repair to; a place of assembling.

Resource, an expedient, a resort.

Respond, to answer, to accord or comply with.

Restrictions, confinement, limitations.

Revenues, income of a State, duties, taxes.

Rob, to take property from the person of another forcibly,

feloniously, or by putting in fear.

Secular, pertaining to worldly matters.

Second, a supporter, next to the first.
Sepulture, interment, burial.

Seize, to take forcible possession of.

Seized, taken forcible possession of; to be possessed of..
Shute, a passage for fish through a dam or lock.

Signature, mark, sign, written name.

Simultaneous, existing or happening at the same time.

Site, situation, local position.

Slander, false report, to back-bite, to scandalize.

Specific, definite, particular quality, or sort.

Spawn, the eggs of fish.

Stipulation, agreement.

Subdivided, divided again.

Subject, one owing allegiance to a sovereign or govern

ment; to make liable to.

Subordinate, inferior in order.

Supremacy, higher authority or power.

Supervisory, to oversee, as an overseer, a superintendent..
Suppression, the act of subduing, or crushing.

Survey, to view, measure, examine.

Surrender, to yield, to give one's self up.

Surplus, excess, remainder.

Swivel-gun, a small cannon, carrying a shot of half a pound, made to turn in a swivel or socket, in any direction.

Tare, deficiency in the weight or quantity of goods by reason of the weight of the cask, box, or other thing containing the commodity and which is weighed with it.

Tax, toll, tribute, impost, custom or contribution for the service of the State.

Tenement, any species of permanent property that may be held so as to create a tenancy, as lands, houses, rents, etc. Temporary, transient, for a short time."

Testamentary, pertaining to a will.
Territorial, pertaining to territory.

Token, mark, sign.

Transmit, to send from one person or place to another.
Treason [See page 147].

Trespass, unlawful entry upon the lands of another; to intrude upon the rights of another.

Tribunal, court of justice.

Tribe, a certain generation of people.

Usurpation, illegal possession.

Uttering or publishing, to hold out or pretend that the thing offered is good and genuine, when it is not.

Vagrant, an idle wanderer, a vagabond.
Vested, belonging to, having by right.
Veto, from the Latin, meaning "I forbid."
Violate, to infringe, injure, or break.
Void, having no legal or binding force.

Volunteers, those who join the military or naval forces voluntarily, of their own free will.

Ward, a minor, or person under the care of a guardian ; subdivision of a city.

Warrant, an instrument authorizing an officer to seize an offender and bring him to justice; that which warrants or authorizes; to insure; guaranty, security.

Weir dam, a dam constructed to stop and raise the water for conducting it to a mill, for taking fish and the like.

Will, testament, the disposition of a man's estate.
Willful, obstinate, perverse, not yielding to reason.