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In old English law. The little seat or mansion belonging to a small farm.

This is required, in some jurisdictions, to be affixed to pleadings, as affording the court a means of judging whether they are interposed in good faith and upon legal grounds.

Coin not genuine, but resembling or apparently intended to resemble or pass for genuine coin, including genuine coin prepared or altered so as to resemble or pass for coin of a higher

A city or town, with more or less territory annexed, having the privilege to be a county of itself, and not to be comprised in any other county; such as London. York,

What is customarily or ordinarily done in the management of trade or business.

A court which has jurisdiction in equity, which administers justice and decides controversies in accordance with the rules, principles, and precedents of equity, and which follows the forms and procedure of chancery;

Inferior courts, in England, having local jurisdiction in claims for small debts, established in various parts of the kingdom by special acts of parliament. They were abolished in 1846, and the modern

Such as do not run with the land.

1. A general term, now commonly applied to all kinds of sailing vessels, __ though formerly restricted to the smaller n| vessels. The Wenonah, 21 Grat. (Va.) 697; Reed v. Ingham, 3

One who, being competent to give evidence, is worthy of belief. Peck v. Chambers, 44 W. Va. 270, 28 S. E. 706; Savage v. Bulger (Kyj 77 S. W. 717: Amory v.

In medical jurisprudence. A form of Imperfect or arrested mental development, which may amount to idiocy, with physical degeneracy or deformity or lack of development; endemic in Switzerland and some other parts

The offense of robbery.

A foreign coin of base metal, prohibited by statute 27 Edw. I. St. 3, from being brought into the realm. 4 Bl. Comm. 98; Crabb, Eng. Law, 176.

One of the offices of the English high court of chancery, now transferred to the high court of justice. The principal official, the clerk of the crown, is an officer of parliament,

A term of French maritime law. See A CUEILLETTK.

He who gives a thing by mistake has a right to recover it back; but, if he gives designedly, it is a gift Dig. 50, 17, 53.

When an action is merely criminal, it can be instituted from the beginning either criminally or civilly. Bract. 102.

“Collect on delivery.” These letters are not cabalistic, but have a determinate meaning. They import the carrier’s liability to return to the consignor either the goods or the charges. U. S. Exp.

In the United States laws, students in the military academy at West Point are styled “cadets;” students in the naval academy at Annapolis, “cadet midshipmen.” Rev. St.

1. The established order of the division of time into years, months, weeks, and days; or a systematized enumeration of such arrangement; an almanac. Rives v. Guthrie, 46 N. C. 86.