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The name of a denomination of French money, being the one-hundredth part of a franc.

A written assurance, or official representation, that some act has or has not been done, or some event occurred, or some legal formality been complied with. Particularly, such written assurance made or

In Saxon law. Tenants who were bound to supply drink for their lord’s table. Cowell.

One who ceases or neglects so long to perform a duty that he thereby incurs the danger of the law. O. N. B. 136.

A challenge interposed on account of an ascertained or suspected bias or partiality, and which may be either a principal challenge or a challenge to the favor. Harris- burg Bank v. Forster,

In old English law. A share or division of land; champerty. In old Scotch law. A gift or bribe, taken by any great man or judge from any person, for delay of

This term refers rather to the bed in which the main stream of a river flows than to the deep water of the stream as followed in navigation. Bridge Co. v. Dubuque

A paper kept at a police-station to receive each night the names of the persons brought and given into custody, the nature of the accusation, and the name of the accuser in

The charters (grants) of liberties. These are Magna Charta and Charta de Foresta. Chartarum super fidem, mortuis tes- tibus, ad patriam de necessitudine recurrendum est. Co. Litt. 36. The witnesses being dead,

The liberty or franchise of hunting, one’s self, and keeping protected against all other persons, beasts of the chase within a specified district, without regard to the ownership of the land. 2

A check crossed with two lines, between which are either the name of a bank or the words “and company,” in full or abbreviated. In the former case, the banker on whom

The presiding/eldest, or principal judge of a court of justice

The way by which the king and all his subjects and all under his protection have a right to pass, though the property of the soil of each side where the way

A right to personal things of which the owner has not the possession, but merely a right of action for their possession. 2 Bl. Comm. 3S9, 397; 1 Chit. Pr. 99. A

A division of the country, appointed for a particular judge to visit for the trial of causes or for the administration of justice. Bouvier. Circuits, as the term is used in England,

In Spanish law. Citation; summons; an order of a court requiring a person against whom a suit has been brought to appear and defend within a given time

Civilly dead ; dead in the view of the law. The condition of one who has lost his civil rights and capacities, and is accounted dead in law.

A seaman or soldier serving at sea

A close, or small inclosure. Cowell

Pertaining to clergymen; or pertaining to the office or labor of a clerk.