COURT OF DELEGATES
An English tribunal composed of delegates appointed by royal commission, and formerly the great court of appeal in all ecclesiastical causes. Tlie powers of the court were, by 2 & 3 Win.
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An English tribunal composed of delegates appointed by royal commission, and formerly the great court of appeal in all ecclesiastical causes. Tlie powers of the court were, by 2 & 3 Win.
In English law. The name of a court established in 1857, under the probate act of that year, (20 & 21 Vict. c. 77,) to be held in London, to which court
An undertaking, in the form of a covenant, on the part of the vendor of real estate to do such further acts for the purpose of perfecting the purchaser’s title as the
Deceitful; fraudulent; having the nature of, or tainted by, covin.
Worthy of belief; entitled to credit. See COMPETENCY.
2 Inst. 479. Vice increasing, punishment ought also to increase.
The nameless crime; the crime against nature; sodomy or buggery.
The crosicr, or pastoral staff.
Criminal law in England is sometimes so termed, the crown being always the prosecutor in criminal proceedings. 4 Bl. Comm. 2.
A chapel or oratory underground, or under a church or cathedral. Du Cange.
To whomsoever the soil belongs, he owns also to the sky and to the depths. The owner of a piece of land owns everything above and below it to an indefinite extent.
A parcel of arable land. Blount.
Common law procedure, in reference to the English acts so entitled.
A dead human body; a corpse. Cadaver nulling in bonis, no one can have a right of property in a corpse. 3 Co. Inst. 110, 2 Bl. Comm. 429; Griffith v. Railroad
In old law. A right to take fuel yearly. Cowell.
The oath of calumny. An oath imposed upon the parties to a suit that they did not sue or defend with the intention of calumniating, (calumniandi animo,) i. e., with a malicious
A part of a larger field or ground, which would otherwise be in gross or in common.
The system of fundamental rules and maxims which are recognized as governing the construction or interpretation of written instruments.
In old records. A box, cabinet, or repository in which were preserved the relics of martyrs. Spelman. A small building in which relics were preserved; an oratory or chapel. Id. In old
Chief warden or magistrate; mayor. Fleta, lib. 2, c.