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In canon law. A making terms; a composition, as with creditors. 7 Low. Can. 272, 306.

In English law. This was the third officer of the duchy court. Bac. Abr. “Attorney.”

The name of a writ constituting the initial process in an action brought by a judgment defendant to obtain relief against the consequences of the judgment, on account of some matter of

In medical jurisprudence. A term used to designate the sensation of a cold vapor frequently experienced by epileptics before the loss of consciousness occurs in an epileptic fit. Aureutz v. Anderson, 3

The handwriting of any one.

In English law. The king’s aid or money levied for the royal use and the public service, as taxes granted by parliament.

A custom or rent formerly so called.

To annul; cancel; make yoid; to destroy the efficacy of anything.

The decision or determination rendered by arbitrators or commissioners, or other private or extrajudicial deciders, upon a controversy submitted to them ; also the writing or document embodying such decision. Halnon v.

One who has caused an attachment to be issued and levied on property of his debtor.

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,

In admiralty law, affirmative damages are damages which a respondent in a libel for injuries to a vessel may recover, which may be in excess of any amount which the libellant would

The time between the rising and setting of the sun; that is. day or daytime as distinguished from night.