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LOCAL

Volume 17 · 54 words · 1810 Edition

in Law, something fixed to the freehold, or tied to a certain place; thus, real actions are local, since they must be brought in the country where they lie; and local customs are those peculiar to certain countries and places.

**LOCAL Medicines**, those destined to act upon particular parts; as fomentations, epithems, vesicatories, &c.