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In old Welsh law. An oath made by compurgators. Brown.
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In old Welsh law. An oath made by compurgators. Brown.
An affirmation ; a positive assertion; a solemn declaration. This word Is seldom, if ever, used for a declaration made under oath, but denotes a declaration accompanied with solemnity or an appeal
Lat He undertook; he promised. A promise or engagement by which one person assumes or undertakes to do some act or pay something to another. It may be either oral or in
The tackle or rigging of a ship; the harness or tackle of a plow. Spelman.
In feudal law. To transfer or turn over to another. Where a lord aliened his seigniory, he might with the consent of the tenant, and in some cases without attorn or transfer
A .Tit or commission to certain persons to appease and punish any insurrection or great riot. Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 110.
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
Another action pending.
In old English and French. Property; substance, estate, and particularly live stock or cattle; hence a working beast; a horse or bullock.
The calling upon a warrantor of lands to fulfill his undertaking.
In logic. A self-evident truth; an indisputable truth.
Assise of mort (fancestor, which see.
An action adapted to the particular case, having an analogy to some actio in jus, the latter being founded on some subsisting acknowledged law. Spence, Eq. Jur. 212. The origin of these
In the civil and common law. A personal action. The ordinary term for this kind of action in the civil law is actio in personam, (q. v.,) the word personalis being of
According as rci is intended as the genitive of res, a tiling, or reus, a defendant, this phrase means: The plaintiff follows the forum of the property in suit, or the forum
An act already begun, the completion of which depends on the will of the parties, may be revoked; but if it depend on the will of a third person, or on a
To the bar; at the bar. 3 How. State Tr. 112.
To the disherison, or disinheriting; to the injury of the inheritance. Bract, fol. 15a; 3 Bl. Comm. 288. Formal words in the old writs of waste.
Thereunto. Ad inde rcqui- situs, thereunto required. Townsh. PI. 22.
Accustomed to bite. Cro. Car. 254. A material D averment in declarations for damage done by a dog to persons or animals. 1 Chit. Pi. 388; 2 Chit. PI. 597.