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A district comprising a hundred villages; a hundred. A term used in Wales in the same sense as “hundred” is in England. Cowell; Termes de la Ley.

(That you take for the fine or in mercy.) Formerly, if the verdict was for the defendant, the plaintiff was adjudged to be amerced for his false claim; but. if the verdict

Chief justice for holding pleas before the king. The title of the chief justice of the king’s bench, first assumed in the latter part of the reign of Henry III. 2 Reeve,

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

In criminal law. The act of removal or asportation, by which the crime of larceny is completed, and which is essential to constitute it. Com. v. Adams, 7 Gray (Mass.) 45; Com.

A certain quantity of land used as the basis for taxation. As much land as may be tilled by a single plow in a year and a day. Also, a team of

Ready money; whatever can be used as money without being converted into another form; that which circulates as money, including bank-bills. Hooper v. Flood, 54 Cal. 221; Dazet v. Landry, 21 Nev.

To cast away a ship is to do such an act upon or in regard to it as causes it to perish or be lost, so as to be irrecoverable by ordinary

A writ of entry framed under the provisions of the statute of Gloucester, (0 Edw. I.,) c. 7, which lay for the benefit of the reversioner when a tenant in dower aliened

An obsolete writ that lay where a house was within a borough, for rent issuing out of the same, and which warranted the taking of doors, windows, etc., by way of distress

A term which includes the domestic animals generally; all the animals used by man for labor or food. Animals of the bovine genus. In a wider sense, all domestic animals used by

The reason is open, obvious. plain, clear, or manifest. A common expression in old writers. Perk. c. 1,

Security given by pledge, or deposit, as plate, money, or other goods.

Persons stealing ore from mines in Derbyshire, punishable in the berghmote or miners’ court; also officers belonging to the same mines. Wharton

In old records. Acorns

The official counting or enumeration of the people of a state or nation, with statistics of wealth, commerce, education, etc. Huntington v. Cast, 149 Ind. 255, 48 N. E. 1025; Republic v.

He took and led away. The emphatic words in writs in trespass or indictments for larceny, where the thing taken was a living chattel, i. e., an animal.