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At hand; ready for use. Et querens sectam halicat ad manum; and the plaintiff immediately have his suit ready. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 44,

To which there was no answer. A phrase used in the reports, where a point advanced in argument by one party was not denied by the other; or where a point or

To Inspect the womb. A writ for the summoning of a jury of matrons to determine the question of pregnancy.

Noble; excellent. A title of honor among the Anglo- Saxons, properly belonging to the king’s children. Spelman.

In mining law. A lateral entrance or passage into a mine; the opening by which a mine is entered, or by which water and ores are carried away; a horizontal excavation in

We ought to be favored, not injured, by that which is intended for our benefit. (The species of bailment called “loan” must be to the advantage of the borrower, not to his

A female who administers, or to whom letters of administration have been granted.

To accept, appropriate, choose, or select; to make that one’s own (property or act) which was not so originally. To adopt a route for the transportation of the mail means to take

Lat. One who corrupts; one who seduces another man’s wife. Adulter solidorum. A corruptor of metals; a counterfeiter. Calvin.

In mercantile law. A writing signed by a merchant, stating that the property in goods shipped in his name belongs to another, to the adventure or chance of which the person so

A writ which lay for tithes, demanding the fourth part or upwards, that belonged to any church.

Your disposition (6r intention) gives name (or character) to your work or act. Bract, fol. 26. 1016.

A refining of metals. Blount

To liberate; to make free.

L. Fr. To award, adjudge, or determine; to sentence, or condemn.

Having suffered loss or injury; damnified; Injured.

In the law of descents. Relations by the father. This word is used in the Scotch law, and by some writers as an English word, corresponding with the Latin agnati, (q. v.)

To support, help, or assist. This word must be distinguished from its synonym “encourage,” the difference being that the former connotes active support and assistance, while the latter does not; and also

In French law. The document pursuant to which an action or suit is commenced, equivalent to the writ of summons in England. Actions, however, are in some cases commenced by requite or

The name of a judicial officer in Spain, and in those countries which have received their laws and institutions from Spain. His functions somewhat resembled those of mayor in small municipalities on