CUM ADSUNT TESTIMONIA RERUM, QUID OPUS EST VERBIS
When the proofs of facts are present, what need is there of words? 2 Bulst 53.
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When the proofs of facts are present, what need is there of words? 2 Bulst 53.
An abbreviation for common pleas.
Lat. It falls, abates, fails, ends, ceases. See CADEBE.
One of the months of the year as enumerated in the calendar,
Defamation ; slander; false accusation of a crime or offense. See CALUMNIA.
A share; a champertor’s share; a champertous division or sharing of land.
The legal rules by which inheritances are regulated. and according to which estates are transmitted by descent from the ancestor to the heir. 2 Bl. Comm. 208. 3. A dignitary of the
A writ issued, in a case of misdemeanor, after the defendant has appeared and is found guilty, to bring him to hear judgment if he is not present when called. 4 Bl.
The chief justiciary; the principal minister of state, and guardian of the realm in the king’s absence. This ofiice originated under William the Conqueror; but its power was greatly diminished by Magna
A register of mortgages made to the Jews. 2 1?1. Comm. 343; Crabb, Eng. Law, 130, et seq.
In Saxon law. The estimation or value of the head, that is, the price or value of a man’s life.
A prison or gaol. Strictly, a place of detention and safe-keeping, and not of punishment. Co. Litt. 620.
Life and annuity tables, compiled at Carlisle, England, about 1780. Used by actuaries, eta
A verdict is said to carry costs when the party for whom the verdict is given becomes entitled to the payment of his costs as incident to such verdict.
One who held lands in car cage, or plow-tenure. Cowell.
A price payable in cash at the time of sale of property, in opposition to a barter or a sale on credit.
In old English law. The precinct or jurisdiction of a castle. Blount
In English law. Those who are not settled in a parish. Such poor persons as are suddenly taken sick, or meet with some accident, when away from home, and who are thus
Land in Norfolk, so called because it is not known to what parish it belongs, and the minister who first seizes the tithes of it, by right of preoccupation, enjoys them for
Italian merchants who came into England in the reign of Henry III., where they established themselves as money lenders, but were soon expelled for their usury and extortion. Cowell; Blount.