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In pleading. Any pleading setting up matters of fact by way of defense. In chancery pleading, the term denotes a defense in writing, made by a defendant to the allegations contained in

A copy or counterpart of a deed.

The summit of the law; a legal subtlety; a nice or cunning point of law; close technicality; a rule of law carried to an extreme point, either of severity or refinement.

In the civil law. Certificates of the inferior judge from whom a cause is removed, directed to the superior. Dig. 49, 6. See APOSTLES.

In practice. A coming into court as party to a suit, whether as plaintiff or defendant The formal proceeding by which a defendant submits himself to the jurisdiction of the court. Flint

When a constitution or court declares that the common law is In force in a particular state so far as it is applicable, it is meant that it must be applicable to

To take hold of, whether with the mind, and so to conceive, believe, fear, dread, (Trogdon v. State, 133 Ind. I, 32 N. E. 725;) or actually and bodily, and so to

L. Fr. To approve or prove; to vouch. Kelham.

Spring water. Fleta, lib. 4, c. 27,

The plowing of land by the tenant, or vassal, in the service of his lord. Whishaw.

An award is the judgment of a good man, according to justice. 3 Bulst. 04.

Lat. In strict and safe custody or keeping. When a defendant is arrested on a capias ad satisfaciend u i/i, (ca. &’&.,) he is to be kept arcta et salva custodi. 3

Silver; money.

An edict of the ancient kings of France and Germany, commanding all their vassals, the noblesse, and the vassals’ vassals, to enter the army, or forfeit their estates on refusal. Spelman.

In English law. A device depicted on the (now imaginary) shield of one of the nobility, of which gentry is the lowest degree. The criterion of nobility is the bearing of arms,

In old English law. To let or demise at a fixed rent. Particularly used with reference to the public domain or crown lands; as where a license was granted to inclose land

In feudal law. A second summons to join the lord, addressed to those who had neglected the first. A summons of the inferiors or vassals of the lord. Spelman.

In English law. A clerk bound to serve in the office of a solicitor in consideration of being instructed in the profession. This is the general acceptation of the term ; but

Created by art, or by fav; existing only by force of or in contemplation of law.

An unlawful attempt or offer. on the part of one man, with force or violence, to inflict a bodily hurt upon another. An attempt or offer to beat another, without touching him;