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Genuine; true; having the character and authority of an original; duly vested with all necessary formalities and legally attested; competent, credible, and reliable as evidence. Downing v. Brown, 3 Colo. 590.

In old English law. A precept or order of court citing and convening a party, at the suit and request of another, to warrant something.

In feudal law. A duty required from some customary tenants, to carry goods in a wagon or upon loaded horses.

In English law. An adulterer with whom a married woman continues in adultery. Termes de la Ley.

The judgment or decree of a court having jurisdiction, that a person against whom a petition in bankruptcy has been filed, or who has filed his voluntary petition, be ordered and adjudged

A statute touching orders to be observed in the king’s forests. Manwood, 35.

A total lack of intelligence, reason, or mental capacity. Sometimes so used as to cover imbecility or dotage, or even as applicable to all forms of insanity ; but properly restricted to

And see Peters v. Warren Ins. Co., 19 Fed. Cas. 370.

Are real, substantial and just damages, or the amount awarded to a complainant in compensation for his actual and real loss or injury, as opposed on the one hand to “nominal” damages,