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THE

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AMERICAN AND ENGLISH

ENCYCLOPÆDIA

OF

LAW.

COMPILED UNDER THE EDITORIAL SUPERVISION OF

JOHN HOUSTON MERRILL,

Late Editor of the American and English Railroad Cases and the American
English Corporation Cases.

VOLUME XII.

and

NORTHPORT, LONG ISLAND, N. Y.:

EDWARD THOMPSON COMPANY, LAW PUBLISHERS,

COPYRIGHT, 1890,

BY EDWARD THOMPSON CO.

Rec, Sept. 24, 1890.

Lateral Railroads,

LUTHER E. HEWITT, of the Philadelphia Bar.
CHARLES A. ROBBINS, of the Lincoln (Neb.)
Bar.

E. W. METCALFE, of the Lincoln (Neb ) Bar.
W. F. ELLIOTT, of the Indianapolis (Ind.) Bar.
CHARLES K. ZUG, of the Philadelphia Bar.

PHILIP H. GOEPP

and

ALEX. R. DE WITT,

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of the Philadelphia Bar.

D. B. VAN SYCKLE, of the Girard (Kan.) Bar.

J. C. THOMPSON, Editor Am. & Eng. R. R.

Cases and Corp. Cases.

JOHN W. SMITH, of the Chicago Bar.

FRANK H. BOWLBY, of the Rochester (N. Y.)

Bar.

W. M. MCKINNEY, Associate Editor Am. &
Eng. R. R. Cases and Corp. Cases.

Lateral and Subjacent Support, ELMER G. SAMMIS, of the New York City

TABLE OF TITLES AND DEFINITIONS.

See index for numerous sub-titles and definitions contained in the notes.