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This occurs where a litigant, by a complex, indirect, or roundabout course of legal proceeding, makes two or more actions necessary, in order to effect that adjustment of rights between all the

In practice. A writ issued out of a court of competent jurisdiction, commanding a person therein named to appear on a day named and do something therein mentioned, or show cause why

Lat. In the Roman law. Any body of people living under the same laws; a state. Jus civitatis, the law of a state; civil law. Inst. 1, 2, 1, 2. Oivitates fcederatce,

A single paragraph or subdivision of a legal document, such as a contract, deed, will, constitution, or statute. Sometimes a sentence or part of a sentence. Appeal of Miles, 08 Conn. 237,

One without exception or reservation as to the place or manner of stowage of the goods, and importing that the goods are to be (or have been) safely and properly stowed under

In old English law. The clerical privilege; the privilege or benefit of clergy

An important officer of the English house of commons. He is appointed by the crown as under-clerk of the parliaments to attend upon the commons. lie makes a declaration, on entering upon

To finish, terminate, complete, wind up; as, to “close” an account, a bargain, an estate, or public books, such as tax books. Patton v. Ash, 7 Serg. & R (Pa.) 116; Coleman

A species ot promissory note, formerly in use in the port of London, containing the phrase “value received in coals.” By the statute 3 Geo. II. c. 20,

That part of the Code Napoleon which regulates the system of courts, their organization, civil procedure, special and extraordinary remedies, and the execution of judgments

A house of entertainment where guests are supplied with coffee and other refreshments, and sometimes with lodging. Century Diet. A coffee-house is not an inn. Thompson v. Lacy, 3 Barn. & Aid.

A joint heiress. A woman who has an equal share of an inheritance with another woman.

In the civil law. The collation of goods is the supposed or real return to the mass of the succession which an heir makes of property which he received in advance of

tum. One which abused its right, or assembled for any other purpose than that expressed in its charter.

The appearance or semblance, without the substance, of legal right. McCain v. Des Moines, 174 U. S. 108, 19 Sup. Ct. (H4, 43 L. Ed. 936

Lat. Immediately; hand-to- hand ; in personal contact.

In practice. An authoritative order of a judge or magisterial officer. In criminal law. The act or offense of one who commands another to transgress the law, or do anything contrary to

The term “commercial paper” means bills of exchange, promissory notes, bank-checks, and other negotiable instniments for the payment of money, enloswhich, by their form and on their face, purport to be such

A person to whom a commission is directed by the government or I a court State v. Banking Co., 14 N. J. Law, ‘ 437; In re Canter, 40 Misc. Rep. 126,

In Spanish law. A contract by which one person lends gratuitously to another some object not consumable, to be restored to him in kind at a given period; the same contract as