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In practice. The private room or office of a judge; any place in which a judge hears motions, signs papers, or does other business pertaining to his office, when he is not
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In practice. The private room or office of a judge; any place in which a judge hears motions, signs papers, or does other business pertaining to his office, when he is not
In English law. A high officer of the crown, who formerly sat in the exchequer court, and. together with the regular judges of the court, saw that things were conducted to the
In ecclesiastical law. A congregation of ecclesiastical persons in a cathedral church, consisting of canons, or prebendaries, whereof the dean is the head, all subordinate to the bishop, to whom they act
In old English law. A charter or deed; an instrument written and sealed; the formal evidence of conveyances and contracts. Also any signal or token by which an estate was held. The
A contract by which an entire ship, or some principal part thereof, is let to a merchant for the conveyance of goods on a determined voyage to one or more places. The
Money paid to the crown by the servants or purchasers of chauntry-lands. See CIIANTBY.
In old records. Pieces of ground, or heads at the end of plowed lands. Cowell.
This word has two meanings in law: (1) In the law of the domestic relations, and as to descent and distribution, it is used strictly as the correlative of “parent,” and means
In feudal law. Knight- service. Tenure in chivalry was the same as tenure by knight-service. 2 Bl. Comm. 61, 62.
Lat In the civil law. Food; victuals. Dig. 34, 1.
A principal act. or event being the object of investigation, the circumstances are the related or accessory facts or occurrences which attend upon it. which closely precede or follow it, which surround
Sp. In Spanish law, cities; distinguished from towns (pueblos) and villages (villas.) Hart v. Burnett, 15 Cal. 537.
In old English law. A claim or complaint; an outcry; clamor.
In English law. The morrow of the utas, or eight days of Easter; the end of Easter; the Sunday after Easter-day. 2 Inst. 157.
An institution organized by the banks of a city, where their messengers may meet daily, adjust balances of accounts, and receive and pay differences. Crane v. Bank, 173 Pa. 500, 34 Atl.
In Roman law. A minister of religion in the Christian church; an ecclesiastic or priest. Cod. 1, 3; Nov. 3, 123, 137. A general term, including bishops, priests, deacons, and others of
Officers formerly attached to the English court of chancery, whose duties consisted principally in sealing bills of complaint and writs of execution, filing affidavits, keeping a record of suits, and certifying office
In admiralty law, this nautical term means the arrangement or trim of a vessel’s sails when she endeavors to make a progress in the nearest direction possible towards that point of the
Vessels “plying coastwise” are those which are engaged in the domestic trade, or plying between port and port in the United States, as contradistinguished from those engaged in the foreicn trade, or
The new code of Justinian; or the new edition of the first or old code, promulgated A. D. 534. being the one now extant. Mackeld. Rom. Law, 5 78. Tayl. Civil Law,