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See JUSTICE.

In Scotch law. To appear

In Scotch practice. The contest among creditors claiming on their respective diligences, or creditors claiming on their securities. Bell

To compromise; to effect a composition with a creditor; to obtain discharge from a debt by the payment of a smaller sum. Bank v. Malheur County, 30 Or. 420, 45 Pac. 781,

In ecclesiastical procedure, a compulsory Is a kind of writ to compel the attendance of a witness, to undergo examination. Phillim. Ecc. Law, 1258.

In French law. To grant. See CONCESSION

An ancient English tribunal, existing during the reigns of Edward I. and Edward II., to which was referred cases of extraordinary difficulty. Co. Litt. 304.

Lying together, as cattle

In Roman law. A general term for actions of a personal nature, founded upon an obligation to give or do a certain and defined thing or service. It is distinguished from vindicatio

In the civil law. A hiring. Used generally in connection with the term locatio, a letting. Locatio ct conductio, (sometimes united as a compound word, “lo? catio-conductio,”) a letting and hiring. Inst.

Trust; reliance; ground of trust In the construction of wills, this word is considered peculiarly appropriate to create a trust. “It is as applicable to the subject of a trust, as nearly

Certain acts of congress, enacted during the progress of the civil war (1801 and 1802) in the exercise of the war powers of the government and meant to strengthen its hands and

Leave to accord. A permission granted by the court in the old process of levying a fine, to the defendant to agree I with the plaintiff

In old English law. Jointly and severally. CONJUNCTIO. In the civil law. Conjunction ; connection of words in a sentence. See Dig. 50, 16 29, 142. Conjunctio mariti et femina: est de

Conqueror. The title given to William of Normandy

A term derived from the civil law, denoting a contract founded upon and completed by the mere consent of the contracting parties, without any external formality or symbolic act to fix the

The act or process of consigning goods ; the transportation of goods consigned; an article or collection of goods sent to a factor to be sold; goods or property sent, by the

In practice. A rule or order of court requiring a plaintiff who has instituted separate suits upon several claims against the same defendant, to consolidate them in one action, where that can

Officers properly appointed under the constitution for the government of the people

In old English law. A writ of right close, which lay against a tenant who deforced his’ lord of the rent or service due to him. Reg. Orig. 159; Fitzh. Nat. Brev.