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In ecclesiastical law. The second Sunday before Lent, being about the sixtieth day before Easter.

j A riding, tithing, or division in the Isle of Man, where the whole island is divided into six sheadings, in each of which there is a coroner or chief constable appointed

In English law. The name of an English coin, of the value of one- twentieth part of a pound. This denomination of money was also used in America, in colonial times, but

A custom of bankers of entering on the customer’s pass-book the amount of notes deposited for collection, in such a manner that the amount is not car- ried to the latter’s general

Lat. If It appears. In Roman law. Words used In the formula by which the praetor appointed a judge, and instructed him how to decide the cause. Si plures sint fidejussores, quotquot

L. Lat In old maritime law. Ballast

Lat. In the law of divorce. Cruelty; anything which tends to bodily harm, and in that manner renders cohabitation unsafe. 1 Hagg. Const. 408.

In old English law. A lord’s right of amercing his tenants in his court. Keilw. 145. Acquittance of suit at county courts and hundred courts. Fleta, 1. 1, c. 47,

Lat Saving; excepting; without prejudice to. Salvo me et hccredibus meis, except me and my heirs. Salvo jure eujuslibet, without prejudice to the rights of any one.

Fr. Without expense. See RETOUH SANS 1’I:OT

In old English law. A space of time from even-song on Saturday till sun-rising on Monday, in which it was not lawful to take salmon in Scotland and the northern parts of

In old records, the cucking-stool, (

Lat. In English law. The name given to a clause inserted in the record by which it is made “known that the justice here in court, in this same term, delivered a

An approbious epithet, Implying rascality, villainy, or a waut of honor or integrity. In slander, this word Is not actionable per se. 2 Bouv. Inst. 2250.

A scuttle; anything of a flat or broad shape like a shield. Cowell.

A search-warrant is an order in writing, issued by a justice or other magistrate, in the name of the state, directed to a sheriff, constable, or other officer, commanding him to search

In text-books, codes, statutes, and other juridical writings, the smallest distinct and numbered subdivisions are commonly called “sections,” sometimes “arti- cles,” and occasionally “paragraphs.”

Lat With settled purpose. 5 Mod. 291.

This is the strict technical expression used to describe the ownership in “an estate in fee-simple in possession in a corporeal hereditament.” The word “seised” is used to express the “seisin” or

To dispose of by sale, (q. v.)