The practice of exciting and encouraging lawsuits and quarrels.
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Robbery; extortion.
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Any violation of law, either divine or human; an omission of a duty commanded, or the commission of an act forbidden by law.
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Deception deliberately practiced with a view to gaining an unlawful or unfair advantage; artifice by which the right or interest of another is injure…
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A small shoot or scion of a tree inserted in another tree, the stock of which is to support and nourish it. The two unite and become one tree, but th…
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To pass goods and commodities from one person to another for an equivalent in goods or money; to buy or sell goods; to barter; to trade.
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The crime of buying or selling ecclesiastical preferment; the corrupt presentation of any one to an ecclesiastical benefice for money or reward.
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