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Ascertaining a widow’s right of dower by laying out or marking off one-third of her “deceased husband’s lands, and setting off the same for her use during life. Bettis v. Mc- Nider,

A term or condition in a contract of employment, either express or implied from the circumstances of the employment, by which the employ^ agrees that dangers of injury ordinarily or obviously incident

A person attached to the Buite of an ambassador or to a foreign legation.

In the most general sense this term denotes an agent or substitute, or one who is appointed and authorized to act in the place or stead of another. In re Ricker, 60

A public officer whose function is to examine and pass upon the accounts and vouchers of officers who have received and expended public money by lawful authority. In practice. An officer (or

Queen’s gold. A royal revenue belonging to every queen consort during her marriage with the king.

Another’s life. A person holding an estate for or during the life of another is called a tenant “pur autre vie,” or “pur terme d’autre vie.” Litt.

In old English law. This term was applied to working cattle, such as horses, oxen, etc.

In pleading. To acknowledge and justify an act done. To make an avowry. For example, when replevin Is brought for a thing distrained, and the party taking claims that he had a

See AIEL.

A writ of assise which formerly lay when a man or his ancestors under whom he claimed presented a clerk to a benefice, who was instituted, and afterwards, upon the next avoidance,

An action, brought to repel a claim of the defendant to a servitude in the plaintiff’s land. Mackeld. Rom. Law,

A species of personal action of very extensive application, otherwise called “trespass on the case,” or simply “case,” from the circumstance of the plaintiff’s whole case or cause of complaint being set

In old Scotch law. An attorney. Skene

The act of the law is hurtful to no one. An act in law shall prejudice no man. 2 Inst. 287.

Adapted tc the common understanding.

To do. Co. Litt. 204a. Ad faciendum, subjiciendum et recipiendum; to do, submit to, and receive. Ad faciendum juratamillam; to make up that jury. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 65,

To inquire; a writ of inquiry; a judicial writ, commanding inquiry to be made of any thing relating to a cause pending in court. Cowell.

It is the duty of justices to administer justice to every one pleading before them. 2 Inst. 451.

To satisfy. The emphatic words of the writ of capias ad satisfaciendum, which requires the sheriff to take the person of the defendant to satisfy the plaintiff’s claim.