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In French law. A sovereign court, of great antiquity, in France, which took cognizance of and registered the accounts of the king’s revenue; nearly the same as the English court of exchequer.

In criminal law. An accident ; an unexpected, unforeseen, or uuin- tended consequence of an act; a fortuitous event. The opposite of intention, design, or contrivance. There is a wide difference between

A place of worship; a lesser or inferior church, sometimes a part of or subordinate to another church. Webster. Rex v. Nixon, 7 Car. & P. 442.

Weighty; heavy; penal; expensive. Kelhani.

A challenge to a single combat; also an Instrument or writing between BL.LAW DICT.(2D ED.)

This term, as used in statutes, means actual personal virtue, and not reputation or good name. It may include the character of one who was formerly unchaste but is reformed. Kenyon v.

In old French law. The privilege or prerogative of the eldest. A provincial term derived from chcmicr, (q. v.) Guyot, Inst.

In old English law. A high judicial officer and special magistrate, who presided over the aula- regis of the Norman kings, and who was also the principal minister of state, the second

In Saxon law. An ecclesiastical assembly or court. Spelman. A synod or meeting in a church or vestry. 4 Inst. 321.

In Hindu law. A fourth, a fourth part of the sum in litigation. The “Mahratta chout” is a fourth of the revenues exacted as tribute by the Mahrattas

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