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In Saxon and old English law. Seamen or marines. Spelman.

The purchase of the rights or claims to real estate of a person who is not in possession of the land or is disseised. Void, and an offense, at common law. Whitaker

In practice. Persons who undertake that a defendant arrested upon mesne process in a civil action shall duly appear to answer the plaintiff; such undertaking being in the fonn of a bond

A contract of letting houses.

The holder of the first or lowest degree conferred by a college or university, e. g., a bachelor of arts, bachelor of law, etc. A kind of inferior knight; an esquire. A

A mark or cognizance worn to show the relation of the wearer to any person or thing; the token of anything; a distinctive mark of office or service.

In LJnglish law. Officers appointed over hundreds, by the sheriffs, to collect fines therein, and summon juries; to attend the judges and justices at the assises and quarter sessions; and also to

A pack or certain quantity of goods or merchandise, wrapped or packed up in cloth and corded round very tightly, marked and numbered with figures corresponding to those in the bills of

See BANC. A seat or bench of justice; also, in commerce, a word of Italian origin signifying a bank.

An old law term, signifying a space or tract of country around a city, town, or monastery, distinguished and protected by peculiar privileges. Spelman.

He is guilty of barratry who for money sells justice. Bell.

An English name or title of dignity, (but not a title of nobility,) established A. D. 1611 by James I. It is created by letters patent, and descends to the male heir.

In French law. The suburbs of a town.

Land that is in controversy, or about the possession of which there is a dispute, as the lands which were situated between England and Scotland before the Union. Skene.

To support, sustain, or carry; to give rise to”, or to produce, something else as an incident or auxiliary.

A service which certain tenants were anciently bound to perform, as to reap their landlord’s corn at harvest Said by Whishaw to be still in existence in some parts of England. Blount;

A seat of judgment or tribunal for the administration of justice; the seat occupied by judges in courts; also the court itself, as the “King’s Bench,” or the aggregate of the judges

In Scotch law. The privilege of competency. A privilege which the grantor of a gratuitous obligation was entitled to, by which he might retain sufficient for his subsistence, if, before fulfilling the

Liberal Interpretations are to be made of deeds, so that the purpose may rather stand than fall; and every grant is to be taken most strongly against the grantor. Wallis v. Wallis,

Lat In the Roman law. A division of the as, or pound, consisting of eight uncial, or duodecimal parts, and amounting to two-thirds of the as. 2 Bl. Comm. 462, note m.