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A term used in old statutes, signifying a lying in wait, or waylaying.

The assise falls (turns) into a jury; hence to submit a controversy to trial by jury.

One who signs his name to an instrument, at the request of the party or parties, for the purpose of proving and identifying it. Skinner v. Bible Soc., 92 Wis. 209, Oo

To annul; cancel; make yoid; to destroy the efficacy of anything.

An action which the depositary has against the depositor, to compel him to fulfil his engagement towards him. Poth. Du Depot, n. 69.

In the civil and common law. An action of tort; an action arising out of fault, misconduct, or malfeasance. Inst 4, 6, 15; 3 Bl. Comm. 117. Ex maleficio is the more

In Scotch law. These are either (1) actions of proper improbation for declaring a writing false or forged; (2) actions of reduction-improbation for the production of a writing in order to have

Lat. A deed; something done.

For the admitting of the clerk. A writ in the nature of an execution, commanding the bishop to admit his clerk, upon the success of the latter in a quarc impedit.

To defend. 1 Bl. Comm. 227.

To the grievance, in- Jury. or oppression. Fleta. lib. 2, c. 47,

For greater security. 2 How. State Tr. 1182.

The name of a writ formerly issuing from the English chancery, commanding the sheriff to make in- | quiry “to what damage” a specified act, if done, will tend. Ad quod damnum

According to value. Duties are either ad valorem or specific; the former when the duty is laid in the form of a percentage on the value of the property ; the latter

In Spanish law. A governor of a province; a president or president judge; a judge having jurisdiction over a kingdom, or over certain provinces only. So called from having authority over the

Lost; strayed; a price or value set upon things stolen or lost, as a recompense to the owner. Cowell.

A swearing or binding upon oath.

In the most usual sense of the word, is a person to whom letters of administration, that is, an authority to administer the estate of a deceased per- son, have been granted

That age which follows puberty and precedes the age of majority. It commences for males at 14, and for females at 12 years completed, and continues till 21 years complete.

In the civil law. A male infant who has attained the age of fourteen ; a female infant who has attained the age of twelve. Dom. Liv. Prel. tit. 2,