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In English practice. A judicial writ touching a plea of lands or tenements, divided into cape magnum, or the grand cape, which lay before appearance to summon the tenant to answer the

In old English law. Chief, principal; at the head. A term applied to persons, places, judicial proceedings, and some kinds of property.

In the civil law. One who had suffered capitis diminutio, one who lost status or legal attributes. See Dig. 4, 5.

In practice. That part of a legal instrument, as a commission, indictment, etc., which shows where, when, and by what authority it is taken, found, or executed. State v. Sutton, 5 N.

In French law. An instrument of punishment, somewhat resembling a pillory. It sometimes signifies the punishment itself. Biret, Vocab.

In old English law. To charge. Spelman.

One who undertakes to transport persons or property from place to place, by any means of conveyance, and with or without compensation.

Carriers who transport goods and merchandise in carts, usually for short distances, for hire.

A professional name for the aggregate of reported cases as forming a body of jurisprudence; or for the law of a particular subject as evidenced or formed by the adjudged cases ;

To cast away a ship is to do such an act upon or in regard to it as causes it to perish or be lost, so as to be irrecoverable by ordinary

A writ of entry framed under the provisions of the statute of Gloucester, (0 Edw. I.,) c. 7, which lay for the benefit of the reversioner when a tenant in dower aliened

A chattel. Most frequently used in the plural form, catalla, (q. v.)

A land’s end, or the bottom of a ridge in arable land. Cowell

In the civil law. The accessions, appurtenances, or fmits of a thing; comprehending all that the claimant of a principal thing can demand from a defendant in addition thereto, and especially what

Security, which tenants for life give, to preserve the property rented free from waste and injury. Ersk. Inst. 2, 9, 59.

Payment or forfeiture of an animal. An ancient species of forfeiture

In old English law. A farm, or house and land let at a standing rent. Cowell.

Petty judges, under-sheriffs of counties, that had rule of a hundred, (ccntena,) and judged smaller matters among them. 1 Vent 211.

In old English law. Head money or common fine. Money paid yearly by the residents of several manors to the lords thereof, for the certain keeping of the leet, (pro eerto Ictw;)

Lat (To be Informed of, to be made certain in regard to.) The name of a writ issued by a superior court directing an inferior court to send up to the former