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The criminal side of the court of king’s bench. The king’s attorney in this court is called “master of the crown office.” 4 Bl. Comm. 308.

An engine of correction for .common scolds, which in the Saxon language is said to signify the scolding-stool, though now it is frequently corrupted into ducking-stool, because the judgment was that, when

2 Inst. 493. An accessory matter is subject to the same jurisdiction as its principal.

In old English law. A base kind of slavery. The confiscation or forfeiture which takes place when a lord seizes his tenant’s estate. Blount; Du Cange.

“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.

In the civil law. One who accused another of a crime without cause; one who brought a false accusation. Cod. 9, 46.

English statutes, for amending the practice in prosecutions for libel, 9 & 10 Vict c. 93; also 6 & 7 Vict. c. 96, providing for compensation to relatives in the case of

The legal rules by which inheritances are regulated, and according to which estates are transmitted by descent from the ancestor to the heir.

Vessels of war owned by private persons, and different from ordinary privateers only in size, being smaller. Beawes, Lex Merc. 230.

The chief or principal debtor, as distinguished from a surety, (plcgius.)

Collections of laws and ordinances drawn up under heads of divisions. Spelman. The term is used in the civil and old English law, and applies to the ecclesiastical law also, meaning chapters

In international law. The taking or wresting of property from one of two belligerents by the other. It occurs either on land or at sea. In the former case, the property captured

Loaded; freighted, as a ship.

Dearth, scarcity, dearness. Cowell.

To bear, bear about, sustain, transport, remove, or convey.

In old English law. A kind of tax or tribute anciently imposed upon every plow, (carue or plow-land,) for the public service. Spelman.

In bookkeeping, an account-book in which is kept a record of all cash transactions, or all cash received and expended. The object of the cash- book is to afford a constant facility

In old English law. Tne lord, owner, or captain of a castle; the constable of a fortified house; a person having the custody of one of the crown mansions; an officer of