627, 42 N. E. 286.

95; Wilson v. Lawrence, 70 Ark. 545, 69 8. W. 570. l

538; Holland v. Dickerson, 41 Iowa, 373; United States v. Ortega, 11 Wheat. 467, 6 L. Bd. 521.

49.

466, 52 N. B. 703.

689, 41 S. W. 826.

60, 62 S. W. 924.—Confusion of rights. A union of the qualities of debtor and creditor in the same person. The effect of such a union is, generally, to extinguish the debt. 1 Salk. 306; «Cro. Car. 551.—Confusion of titles. A civil-law expression, synonymous with “merger,” as used in the common law, applying where two titles to the same property unite in the same erson. Palmer v. Burnside, 1 Woods, 179, Fed. as. No. 10,685. .

115, 82 S. W. 1117.

503, 18 S. W. 860; Ex parte Dusenberry. 97 Mo. 504, 11 S. W. 217.—Common-law crimes. Such crimes as are punishable by the force of the common law, as distinguished from crimes created by statute. Wilkins v. U. S.,

620, 52 Pac. 466; Halbert v. Alford (Tex.) 16 S. W. 814.

504.

660.

459, 79 S. W. 1162; Dodge y. Boston &

381; Chapelle v. Wells, 4 Mart. (La. N. 8S.) 426.

694, 50 N. E. 1; Taylor v. Pope, 106

466, 52 N. E. 703. But the term is also used (chiefly in statutes) in a much wider sense, and as including any injury which is an ink vasion of personal rights, and in this signification it may include such injuries as libel os slander, criminal conversation with a wife, seduction of a daughter, and mental suffering.

279, 3 S. W. 538, 58 Am. Rep. 638.—

362, 62 N. E 1025; Clarke v. Ingram, 107 Ga. 565, 38 8. EB. 802.

201. In English statutes, this term is generally understood to designate a servant employed in husbandry or manufactures, and not dwelling in the home of his employer. Wharton; Mozley & Whitley.

274, 51 Am. Rep. 309..

541.

29, 57 S. W. 908.—Line of duty. In

485, 30 N. E. 1118.

70, 68 S. W. 939; Thomas v. Mason, 8

569, 47 Pac. 988; Jones v. Chanute, 63

212; Brackenridge v. State, 27 Tex. App. 5138, 11 8. W. 680. 4 L. R. A. 360.—Official at gr An ecclesiastical officer whose duty t is to hear causes between party and party as the delegate of the bishop or ot Neh a by whom he is appointed. He generally also holds the office of vicar general and (if appointed by a bishop) that of chancellor. The official principal of the province of Canterbury is called the “dean of arches.” Phillim. Ecc. Law. 1208. et seq.; Sweet. cial solicitor to the court of chancery. An officer in England whose functions are to protect the suitors’ fund. and to administer, under the direction of the court, so much of it as now comes under the spending power of the court. He acts for per sons suing or defending tn forma pauperis, when so directed by the judge, and for those who. through ignorance or forgetfulness, have been guilty of contempt of court by not obeying process. He also acts generally as solicitor in all cases in which the chancery division requires such services. The office is transferred to the high court by the judicature acts, but no alteration in its name appears to have been made.

337.

814.

438.

282.

546, 72 S. W. 442.

204, 70 Pac. 766; McCleary v. Chipman, 32 Ind. App. 489. 68 N. E. —Presumptive title. A barely presumptive title, which is of the very lowest order. arises out of the mere occupation or simple possession of proper-

222, 64 N. E. 239; In re Lindsley, 44

299, 29 N. E. 613; Morningstar v. Cunpingham, 110 Ind. 328, 11 N. EB. 598, 59 Am.

462; Hinton v. State, 132 Ala. 29, 31