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In conveyancing. A deed or instrument of conveyance. The legal evidences of the transfer of property are in England called the “common assurances” of the kingdom, whereby every man’s estate is assured

A distress formerly taken upon goods and chattels, by the legal attachiators or bailiffs, as security to answer an action for personal estate or debt.

In old practice. An attorney who practised in all the courts. Cowell.

Officers in the English exchequer, who formerly had the charge of auditing the accounts of the customs, naval and military expenses, etc.. now performed by the commissioners for auditing public accounts.

L. Fr. Another; other.

L. Fr. At another time; formerly; before; heretofore.

Beasts of the plow

One who makes an avowry.

In old Scotch law. Eyre; a circuit, eyre, or iter.

A real action which lay to recover land of which a person had been deprived on the death of his ancestor by the abatement or intrusion of a stranger. 3 Bl. Comm.

In the civil law. An act which has been executed before a notary or other public officer authorized to execute such functions, or which is testified by a public seal, or has

An officer chosen or appointed to appraise, value, or assess property. In civil and Scotch law. Persons skilled in law, selected to advise the judges of the inferior courts. Bell; Dig. 1,

A term employed to designate a locum tennis who is performing the duties of an office to which he does not himself claim title; c. g., “Acting Supervising Archi

An action given against a master, founded on some business done by his slave, acting under his order, (jussu.) Inst. 4, 7, 1; Dig. 15, 4; Cod. 4, 20.

The breach or nonperformance of a legal duty, through neglect or carelessness, resulting in damage or injury to another. Roddy v. Missouri Pac. R. Co.. 104 Mo. 234. 15 S. W. 1112.

Legal memoranda made in the admiralty courts in England, in lhe nature of pleas.

Acts required to be done by law do not admit of qualification. Hob. 153; Branch, Princ.

At common law. The name of a writ of entry (now obsolete) brought by the reversioners after the death of the life tenant, for the recovery of lands wrongfully alienated by him.

To fee farm. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 50,