1901, § 682) as distinguished from a copy of it or from extraneous evidence its contents or purport.—Parol evidence. Oral or verbal evidence; that which is given by word of mouth; the ordinary kind of evidence, given by witnesses in court. 3 Bl.

1901, § 678.—Law of marque. A sort of law of reprisal, which entitles him who has received any wrong from another and cannot get ordinary justice to take the shipping or goods of the wrong-doer, where he can find them within his own bounds or precincts, in satisfaction of the wrong. Cowell: Brown.—Laws of Oleron. See OLERON, Laws OF.—Law of the case. A ruling or decision once made in a particular case by an appellate court, while it may be overruled in other cases, is binding and conclusive both upon the inferior court in any further steps or proceedings in the same litigation and upon the appellate court itself in any subsequent appeal or other proceeding for review. A ruling or decision so made is said to be “the law of the case.” See Hastings v. Foxworthy. 45