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In old English law. Ale or beer

In French law. Certificates given by a foreign lawyer, establishing the law of the country to which he belongs upon one or more fixed points. These certificates can be produced before the

In Roman law. A fictitious suit, in which the person who was to acquire the thing claimed (vindicabat) the filing as his own, the person who was to transfer it acknowledged the

A name given to the presiding officer of an assembly, public meeting, convention, deliberative or legislative body, board of directors, committee, etc.

A name anciently given to St. Edward’s chamber, called the “Painted Chamber,” destroyed by fire with the houses of parliament

In England. this is the highest judicial functionary in the kingdom, and superior, in point of precedency, to every temporal lord. He is appointed by the delivery of the king’s great seal

To impose a burden, obligation, or lien; to create a claim against property; to claim, to demand; to accuse; to instruct a jury on matters of law. In the first sense above

In old English law. A chirographed charter; a charter executed in two parts, and cut through the middle, (scindi- tur per medium,) where the word “cyrograph- um,” or “chirographum.” was written in

In mercantile law. One who charters (

To control or restrain; to hold within bounds. To verify or audit Particularly used with reference to the control or supervision of one department, bureau, or office over another.

Principal; leading; head; eminent in power or importance; the most important or valuable of several. Declaration in chief is a declaration for the principal cause of action. 1 Tidd, Pr. 419. Examination

The right which a lord had of taking a flue of his bondwoman gotteii with child without his license. Termes de la Ley; Cowell.

In ancient times a person admitted to sit and worship in the choir; a chorister.

Five (now seven) ports or havens ou the south-east coast of England, towards France, formerly esteemed the most important in the kingdom. They are Dover, Sandwich, Roiuney, Hastings, and Hythe, to which

In Scotch law. Any act of fraud whereby a person is reduced to a deed by decreet. It has the same sense in the civil law. Dig. 50, 17. 49, 155. And

The liability to be called upon to respond to an action at law for an injury caused by a crime, as opposed to criminal responsibility, or liability to be proceeded against in

(It clearly appears.) In Scotch law. The name of a precept for giving seisin of lands to an heir; so called from its initial words. Ersk. Inst. 3, 8, 71. CLAREMETHEN. In

The keys of the court. They were the officers of the Scotch courts, such as clerk, doomster, and Serjeant. Burrill.

In old Scotch law. To clear or acquit of a criminal charge. Literally, to cleanse or clean.

In Spanish law. Clergy; men chosen for the service of God. White, New Recop. b. 1, tit 5, ch. 4.