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In English law. Officers who perform the duties of sheriffs within liberties or privileged jurisdictions, in which formerly the king’s writ could not be executed by the sheriff. Spelman.

In Spanish law. Waste land; land that is neither arable nor pasture. White New Recop. b. 2, tit. 1, c. 6,

In old English law. Advocates; countors; serjeants. Applied to advocates in the common pleas courts. 1 Bl. Comm. 24; Cowell.

Courts for the administration of the bankrupt laws. The present English bankruptcy courts are the London bankruptcy court, the court of appeal, and the local bankruptcy courts created by the bankruptcy act,

Span. A concubine, whom a man keeps alone in his house, unconnected with any other woman. Las Par- tidas, pt. 4, tit 14.

Members of parliament from these ports, viz.: Sandwich, Romney, Hastings, Hythe, and Dover. Win- chelsea and Rye have been added.

In old English law. Low, or inferior knights, by tenure of a base military fee, as distinguished from “barons and bannerets, who were the chief or superior knights. Cowell.

In old English law, a baton, club, or staff. A term applied to officers of the wardens of the prison called the “Fleet,” because of the staff carried by them. Cowell; Spelman;

In English ecclesiastical law. An inferior parish officer, who is chosen by the vestry, and whose business is to attend the vestry, to give notice of its meetings, to execute its orders,

In English law. A crier or messenger of court, who summons men to appear and answer therein. Cowell. An oflicer of the forest, similar to a sheriff’s special bailiff. Cowell. A collector

Lat In public law. War. An armed contest between nations; the state of those who forcibly contend with each other. Jus belli, the law of war.

In early feudal law. A benefice; a permanent stipendiary estate; the same with what was afterwards called a “fief,” “feud,” or “fee.” 3 Steph. Comm. 77, note i; Spelman. In the civil

Those having a philanthropic or charitable purpose, as distinguished from such as are conducted for profit; specifically, “benefit associations” or “beneficial associations.” See BENEFIT.

A method of anthropometry, used chiefly for the identification of criminals and other persons, consisting of the taking and recording of a system of numerous, minute, and uniform measurements of various parts

One who offers to pay a specified price for an article offered for sale at a public auction. Webster v. French. 11 HI. 254.

In admiralty law and marine insurance. That state or condition of a vessel in which water is freely admitted through holes and breaches made in the planks of the bottom, occasioned by

In mercantile law. A book in which an account of bills of exchange and promissory notes, whether payable or receivable, is stated.

In old English law. A bill or petition exhibited in parliament. Cowell.

The day which is added every fourth year to the mouth of February, In order to make the year agree with the course of the sun. Leap year, consisting of 300 days,

In old English law. Growing crops of grain of any kind. Spelman. All manner of annual grain. Cowell. Harvested grain. Bract. 2176; Reg. Orig. 946, 95.