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In presence of a person not a judge. When a suit is brought and determined in a court which has no jurisdiction in the matter, then it is said to be coram

The oath administered to a sovereign at the ceremony of crowning or investing him with the insignia of royalty, in acknowledgment of his right to govern the kingdom, in which he swears

In reference to municipal corporations, and especially to their powers of taxation, a “corporate purpose” is one which shall promote the general prosperity and the welfare of the municipality, (Wetherell v. De-

Discipline; chastisement administered by a master or other person in authority to one who has committed an offense, for the purpose of curing his faults or bringing him into proper subjection.

In Spanish law. A term corresponding to the res communes of the Roman law, and descriptive of such things as are open to the equal and common enjoyment of all persons and

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In American law. The lower or more numerous branch of the legislative assembly of a city, in English law. The councillors of the city of London. The parliament, also, was anciently called

A secret writing, either before a notary or under a private seal, which destroys, invalidates, or alters a public one.

Count, or reckon. In old practice. A direction formerly given by the clerk of a court to the crier, after a jury was sworn, to number them; and which Blackstone says was

The supreme judicial tribunal of France, having appellate jurisdiction otdy. For an account of its composition and powers, see Jones, French Bar, 22; Guyot, Itepert. Univ.

was a court not of record, held before the lord high constable and earl marshal of England. It had jurisdiction, both civil and criminal, in deeds of arms and war, armorial bearings,

In American law. A court of criminal jurisdiction in the state of Pennsylvania. It is held at the same time with the court of quarter sessions, as a general rule, and by

in French law, is the deposit (“margin”) made by the client in the hands of the broker, either of a sum of money or of securities, in order to guaranty the broker

The condition or state of a married woman. Sometimes used elliptic- | ally to describe the legal disability arising from a state of coverture. Osborn v. Horlne, 19 111. 124; Roberts v.

To bring into being; to cause to exist; to produce; as, to create a trust in lands, to create a corporation. Edwards v. Bibb, 54 Ala. 481; McClellan v. McClellan, 65 lie.

In Saxon law. To put out an eye; which had a pecuniary punishment of fifty shillings annexed to it

The crime or offense of theft.

One who decoys and plunders sailors under cover of harboring them. Wharton.

In English law. Debts due to the crown, which are put, by various statutes, upon a different footing from those due to a subject.

The hue and cry raised by the people in ancient times, where a felony had been committed and the constable was absent.