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BY BILL, BY BILL WITHOUT WRIT, In practice. Terms anciently used to des, fgnate actions commenced by original biU, as distinguished from those commenced bJI original writ, and applied in modern practice to suits commenced by capias ad re.<JpondeA< dum. 1 Arch. Pr. pp. 2, 337; Harkne v. Harkne , 5 Hill (N. Y.) 213. BY ESTIMATION, In conveyancing. A term used to indicate that the quantity ot land as stated ls estimated only, not exactly measured; has the same meaning and effect as the phrase "more or le ." Tarbell v. Bowman, 100 Ma . 341; Men den hall v. Steckel, 47 Md. 453, 28 Am. Rep. 481; Hayi v. Hays, 126 Ind. 92, 23 N. E. 600, 11 L. R. A. 376. BY G()D AND llrlY COUNTRY, In old English criminal practice. The established [s. 164]