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An officer in England, whose duty it is to receive from the trustee in each bankruptcy his accounts and periodical statements showing the proceedings in the bankruptcy, and also to call the

To hide; secrete; withhold from the knowledge of others. The word “conceal,” according to the best lexicographers, signifies to withhold or keep secret mental facts from another’s knowledge, as well as to

A council house

Lat. In old English law. An agreement, or concord. Fleta, lib. 5, c. 3,

To find or adjudge guilty. 3 Leon. 68. To adjudge or sentence. 3 Bl. Comm. 201. To adjudge (;is an admiralty court) that a vessel is a prize, or that she is

To make condonation of

The act of a debtor in permitting judgment to be entered against him by his creditor, for a stipulated sum, by a written statement to that effect or by warrant of attorney,

To appropriate property to the use of the state. To adjudge property to be forfeited to the public treasury; to seize and condemn private forfeited property to public use. Ware v. Hylton,

A union of the qualities of debtor and creditor in the same person. The effect of such a union is. generally, to extinguish the debt. 1 Salk. 306; Cro. Car. 551

One of the names of marriage, among the Romans. Tayl. Civil Law, 284.

In modern civil law. A joint possession. Mackeld. Rom. Law,

In French law. A family council. Certain acts require the sanction of this body. For example, a guardian can neither accept nor reject an inheritance to which the minor has succeeded without

In the civil law. To deposit in the custody of a third person a thing belonging to the debtor, for the benefit of the creditor, under the authority of a court of

The act or process of uniting several actions into one trial and judgment, by order of a court, where all the actions are between the same parties, pending in the same court,

A word used as a correlative to “attorney,” to denote one who constitutes another his agent or invests the other with authority to act for him. ‘ It is also used in

In ecclesiastical law. A ritual or book, containing the rites and forms of divine offices, or the customs of abbeys and monasteries

In English law. The commission received for carrying over or putting off the time of execution of a contract to deliver stocks or pay for them at a certain time. Wharton.

To make defense to an adverse claim in a court of law; to oppose, resist, or dispute the case made by a plaintiff. Pratt v. Breckinridge, 112 Ky. 1, 65 S. W.

In pleading. A form of allegation in which the trespass, criminal offense, or other wrongful act complained of is charged to have been committed on a specified day and to have “continued”

In old English law. Against gage and pledge. Bract, fol. 156. Contra legem facit qui id facit quod lex prohibit; in fraudem vero qui, salvis verbis legis, sententiam ejus circum- venit. He