public corporation invested with powers and duties of government. It is often used, in a rather loose way, to designate the state or Nation or sovereign power, or the government of a county or municipality, without distinctly connoting any express and individual corporate character. Munn v. Ilinois,

Lat. n. Goods; property; possessions. In the Roman law, this term was used to designate all species of property, real, personal, and mixed, but was more strictly applied to real estate. In modern civil law, it includes both personal property (technically so called) and chattels real, thus corresponding to the French Diens. In the common law, its use was confined to the de-

écription of immovable goods. Tisdale v. Harris, 20 Pick. (Mass.) 13; Penniman v. French, 17 Pick. (Mass.) 404, 28 Am. Dec. 809.

Lat. adj. Good. Used in numerous legal phrases of which the following are the principal: