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In old English law. A hall, or court; the court of a baron, or manor; a court baron. Spelman.

Genuine; true; having the character and authority of an original; duly vested with all necessary formalities and legally attested; competent, credible, and reliable as evidence. Downing v. Brown, 3 Colo. 590.

In old English law. A precept or order of court citing and convening a party, at the suit and request of another, to warrant something.

In feudal law. A duty required from some customary tenants, to carry goods in a wagon or upon loaded horses.

In English law. An adulterer with whom a married woman continues in adultery. Termes de la Ley.

The judgment or decree of a court having jurisdiction, that a person against whom a petition in bankruptcy has been filed, or who has filed his voluntary petition, be ordered and adjudged

1. An ancient species of court, consisting of a certain number of men, usually twelve, who were summoned together to try a disputed cause, performing the functions of a jury, except that

In the law of evidence. The act or mode of giving authority or legal authenticity to a statute, record, or other written instrument, or a certified copy thereof, so as to render

An action to procure a judicial division of joint property. Hunter. Rom. Law, 194. It was analogous in its object to proceedings for partition in modern law.

An action for things removed; an action which, in cases of divorce, lay for a husband against a wife, to recover things carried away by the latter, in contemplation of such divorce.

A foreign commercial term for the proprietor of an action or share of a public company’s stock; a stockholder.

The fair or reasonable cash price for which the property could be sold in the market, in the ordinary course of business, and not at forced sale; the price it will bring

A repugnant act cannot be brought into being, i. e., cannot be made effectual. Plowd. 355.

At a court. 1 Salk. 195. To court. Ad curiam vocare, to summon to court.

TO the middle of the way; to the central line of the road. Parker v. Inhabitants of Framingham, 8 Mete. (Mass.) 260.

To the rights of the king; a writ which was brought by the king’s clerk, presented to a living, against those who endeavored to eject him, to the prejudice of the king’s

On complaint of.

Suspicion lies heavy on the unfortunate side.

In the law of contracts. Additional terms or propositions to be added to a former agreement.