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In European law. Assurance; insurance of a vessel, freight, or cargo. Ferriere.

An ancient writ addressed to the justices of assise for the continuation of a cause, when certain facts put in issue could not have been proved in time by the party alleging

An arraignment, (

That extinction of civil rights and capacities which takes place whenever a person who has committed treason or felony receives sentence of death for his crime. 1 Steph. Comm. 408; 1 Bish.

See LIEN

In old English law. A hall, or court; the court of a baron, or manor; a court baron. Spelman.

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.

An action to procure a judicial division of joint property. Hunter. Rom. Law, 194. It was analogous in its object to proceedings for partition in modern law.

An action for things removed; an action which, in cases of divorce, lay for a husband against a wife, to recover things carried away by the latter, in contemplation of such divorce.

A foreign commercial term for the proprietor of an action or share of a public company’s stock; a stockholder.

The fair or reasonable cash price for which the property could be sold in the market, in the ordinary course of business, and not at forced sale; the price it will bring

A repugnant act cannot be brought into being, i. e., cannot be made effectual. Plowd. 355.

At a court. 1 Salk. 195. To court. Ad curiam vocare, to summon to court.

TO the middle of the way; to the central line of the road. Parker v. Inhabitants of Framingham, 8 Mete. (Mass.) 260.

To the rights of the king; a writ which was brought by the king’s clerk, presented to a living, against those who endeavored to eject him, to the prejudice of the king’s