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In medical jurisprudence. Loss of the power of articulate speech in consequence of morbid conditions of some of the vocal organs. It may be incomplete, in which case the patient can whisper.

Any person who keeps a shop or building where medicines are compounded or prepared according to prescriptions of physicians, or where medicines are sold. Act Cong. July 13, 1806, c. 184,

A docket kept by the clerk of the court, in which appearances are entered, containing also a brief abstract of all the proceedings in the cause.

A putting to, placing before, preferring a request or petition to or before a person. The act of making a request for something. A written request to have a certain quantity of

An ancient name for students at law, and afterwards applied to counsellors, apprentici ad barrast, from which conies the more modern word “barrister.”

To take to one’s use or profit. Cowell.

Salt water

The award or decision of arbitrators upon a matter of dispute, which has been submitted to them. Termes de la Ley.

[That which is] a tree while it grows, [is] wood when it ceases to grow. Cro. Jac. 100; Hob. 77&, in marg.

A surface measure in the French law, in the form of a square, equal to 1070.441 square feet.

In arguing; in the course of the argument. A statement or observation made by a judge as a matter of argument or illustration, but not directly bearing upon the ease at bar,

A form of government where the power Is divided between the nobles and the people.

A word formerly used for a grocer. 1 Vent. 142.

In practice. The act of staying a judgment, or refusing to render judgment in an action at law, after verdict, for some matter intrinsic appearing on the face of the record, which

In marine insurance. The arrival of a vessel means an arrival for pur- ]>oses of business, requiring an entry aud clearance and stay at the port so long as to require some

A committee of the Scottish parliament, which, in the mode of its election, and by the nature of its powers, was calculated to increase the influence of the crown, and to confer

Also called “legal presumptions;” those which derive their force and effect from the law, rather than their natural tendency to produce belief. 3 Starkie, Ev. 1235. Gulick v. I/Oder. 13 N. J.

In European law. Assurance; insurance of a vessel, freight, or cargo. Ferriere.

An ancient writ addressed to the justices of assise for the continuation of a cause, when certain facts put in issue could not have been proved in time by the party alleging

An arraignment, (