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also said to be strangers .to the covenant. Brown. See Bobbins v. Chicago, 4 Wall. 672, 18 L. Ed. 427; O'Donnell v. Mclntyre, 118 N. Y. 156, 23 N. E. 455; Bennett v. Chandler, 199 111. 97, 64 N. E. 1052; Kirk v. Morris, 40 Ala. -228; U. S. v. Henderlong (C. C.) 102 Fed. 2. A deception either by words or actions, in times of war, in order to obtain an advantage over an enemy. STRATOCRACY. A military govern ment; government by military chiefs of an army. STRATOR. In old English law. A sur veyor of the highways. STRAW BALL. See BAIL. STRAY. See ESTBAY. STREAM. A current of water; a body of flowing water. The word, in its ordinary sense, includes rivers. But Callis defines a stream "a current of waters running over the level at random, and not kept in with banks or walls." Call. Sew. [83,] 133. See Munson v. Hungerford, 6 Barb. (N. Y.) 270; French v. Carhart, 1 N. Y. 107; Miller v. Black Rock Springs Imp. Co., 99 Va. 747, 40 S. E. 27, 86 Am. St Rep. 924; Armfield v. State, 27 Ind. App. 488, 61 N. E. 693; Trus tees of Schools v. Schroll, 120 I1L 509, 12 N. E. 243, 60 Am. Rep. 575. —Private stream. A non-navigable creek ot water-course, the bed or channel of which is ex clusively owned by a private individual. See Adams v. Pease. 2 Conn. 484; Reynolds v. Com., 93 Pa- 461. STREAMING FOR TIN. The process of working tin in Cornwall and Devon. The right to stream must not be exercised so as to interfere with the rights of other private individuals; e. g., either by withdrawing or by polluting or choking up the water-courses or waters of others; and the statutes 23 Hen. VIII. c. 8, and 27 Hen. VIII. c. 23, impose a penalty of £20 for the offense. Brown. STREET. An urban way or thorough fare; a road or public way in a city, town, or village, generally paved, and lined or in tended to be lined by houses on each side. See U. S. v. Bain, 24 Fed. Cas. 943; Brace v. New York Cent R. Co., 27 N. Y. 271; In re Woolsey, 95 N. Y. 138; Debolt v. Carter, 31 Ind. 367; Theobold v. Railway Co., 66 Miss. 279, 6 South. 230, 4 L. R» A. 735, 14 Am. St Rep. 564. STREIGHTEN. In the old books. To narrow or restrict. "The habendum should not streighten the devise." 1 Leon. 58. STREPITUS. In old records. Estrepe ment or strip; a species of waste or destruc tion of property. Spelman. STRATAGEM.

violent depredation on the highway, or ac companied by house-breaking. Alis. Prin. Scotch Law. 227. STOWAGE. In maritime law. The stor ing, packing, or arranging of the cargo in a ship, in such a manner as to protect the goods from triction, bruising, or damage from leakage. Money paid for a room where goods are laid; housage. Wharton. STOWE. In old English law. A valley. Co. Litt. 4b. STRADDLE. In stock-brokers' parlance the term means the double privilege of a "put" and a "call," and secures to the holder the right to demand of the seller at a certain price within a certain time a certain number of shares of specified stock, or to require him to take, at the same price within the same time, the same shares of stock. Harris y. Tumbridge, 83 N. Y. 95, 38 Am. Rep. 398. STRAMINEUS HOMO. L. Lat A man of straw, one of no substance, put forward as bail or surety. STRAND. A shore or bank of the sea or a river. Doane v. Willcutt, 5 Gray (Mass.) 335, 66 Am. Dec. 369; Bell v. Hayes, 60 App. Div. 382, 69 N. Y. Supp. 898; Stillman v. Bur feind, 21 App. Div. 13, 47 N. Y. Supp. 280. STRANDING. In maritime law. The drifting, driving, or running aground of a ship on a shore or strand. Accidental strand ing takes place where the ship is driven on shore by the winds and waves. Voluntary stranding takes place where the ship is run on shore either to preserve her from a worse fate or for some fraudulent purpose. Marsh. Ins. bk. 1, c. 12, § 1. See Barrow v. Bell, 4 Barn. & a 736; Strong v. Sun Mut Ins. Co., 31 N. Y. 106, 88 Am. Dec. 242; Lake v. Columbus Ins. Co., 13 Ohio, 55, 42 Am. Dec 188; London Assur. Co. v. Companhia de Moagens, 167 U. S. 149, 17 Sup. Ct, 785, 42 L. Ed. 113. STRANGER IN BLOOD. Any person not within the consideration of natural love and affection arising from relationship. STRANGERS. By this term is intended third persons generally. Thus the persons bound by a fine are parties, privies, and strangers; the parties are either the cogni zors or cognizees; the privies are such as are in any way related to those who levy the fine, and claim under them by any right of blood, or other right of representation; the stran gers are all other persons in the world, except only the parties and privies. In its general legal signification the term is opposed to the word "privy." Those who are in no way parties to a covenant, nor bound by it, are