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A bargain by which money is loaned, at an extortionate or extravagant rate, to an heir or any one who has an estate in reversion or expectancy, to be repaid on the

In Spanish law. An allotment of land acquired by conquest, to a horse soldier. It was a strip one hundred feet wide by two hundred feet deep. The term has been sometimes

In the Roman law. A cognomen in the Gens Julia, which was assumed by the successors of Julius. Tayl. Civil Law, 31.

A call of the names of all the members of a legislative body, made by the clerk in pursuance of a resolution requiring the attendance of members. The names of absentees being

A champertor.

To obliterate, strike, or cross out; to destroy the effect of an instrument by defacing, obliterating, expunging, or erasing it. In equity. Courts of equity frequently cancel instruments which have answered the

One versed and skilled in the canon law; a professor of ecclesiastical law.

A writ of execution issuable in England against a debtor to the crown, which commands the sheriff to “take” or arrest the body, and “cause to be extended” the lands and goods

Chief justice of all England. The title of the presiding justice in the court of aula regis. 3 151. Comm. 38; 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 48.

In French law. A collection and code of the laws and ordinances promulgated by the kings of the Merovingian and Carlovingian dynasties. Any orderly and systematic collection or code of laws. In

The beginning of the Lent fast, i. e., Ash Wednesday.

In ecclesiastical law. a dignitary of the court of Rome, next in rank to the pope.

In old criminal law. Carnally. Carnaliter cognovit, carnally knew. Technical words in indictments for rape, and held essential. 1 Hale, P. C. 637- 639.

A carriage for luggage or burden, with two wheels, as distinguished from a wagon, which lias four wheels. The vehicle in which criminals are taken to execution. This word, in its ordinary

In the law of insurance. A fortuitous event; an inevitable accident.

An amercement or fine; a mulct

Offering; alleging by way of excuse. Casting an essoin was alleging an excuse for not appearing in court to answer an action. Holthouse.

In international law. The case of the treaty. The particular event or situation contemplated by the treaty, or stipulated for, or which comes within its terms. In commercial law. The case or

In English ecclesiastical law. The church of the bishop of the diocese, in which is his cathcdra, or throne, and his special jurisdiction ; in that respect the principal church of the

The immediate cause ; the last link in the chain of causation