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Ecclesiastical courts, in which the primates once exercised in person a considerable part of their jurisdiction. They seein to be now obsolete, or at least to be only used on the rare

In English law. The court of the lord mayor and aldermen of London, which has the care of those orphans whose parent died in London and was free of the city. In

(Otherwise spelled “Coustumier” or “Coutumier.”) In old French law. A collection of customs, unwritten laws, and forms of procedure. Two such volumes are of especial importance in juridical history, viz., the Grand

Covered, protected, sheltered. A pound covert is one that is close or covered over, as distinguished from pound overt, p which is open overhead. Co. Litt. 47b; 3 Bl. U Comm. 12.

We create. One of the words by which a corporation in England was formerly created by the king. 1 Bl. Comm. 473.

In maritime law. Such little inlets of the sea, whether within the precinct or extent of a port or without, as are narrow passages, and have shore on either side of them.

The offense of buggery or I sodomy. State v. Vicknair, 52 La. Ann. 1921, 28 South. 273; busman v. Veal. 10 Ind. 355, 71 Am. Dec. 331 ; People v. Williams, 59

This term is used, in distinction or opposition to the word “civiliter,” civilly, to distinguish a criminal liability or prosecution from a civil one.

The sovereign power in a monarchy, especially in relation to the punishment of crimes. “Felony is an offense of the crown.” Finch, Law, b. 1, c. 16. An ornamental badge of regal

A voyage undertaken for a given purpose; a voyage for the purpose of making captures jure belli. The Brutus, 2 Gall. 538, Fed. Cas. No. 2,060. A voyage or expedition in quest

Wing. Max. 53. Whose it is to give, his it is to dispose; or, as Broom says, “the bestower of a gift has a right to regulate Its disposal.” Broom, Max. 459,

Blamable; censurable; involving the breach of a legal duty or the commission of a fault. The term is not necessarily equivalent to “criminal,” for, in present use, and notwithstanding its derivation, it

In reports and legal documents, an abbreviation for common bench. Also an abbreviation for chief baron.

Letters issued and signed by the kings of France, and countersigned by a secretary of state, authorizing the imprisonment of a person. Abollished during the revolution of 1789.

In old French law. A list of grievances prepared for deputies in the statesgeneral. A petition for the redress of grievances enumerated.

When a prisoner has tx’en found guilty on an indictment. the clerk of the court addresses him and calls upon him to say why judgment should not be passed upon liim.

The star chamber, (q. v.)

A person who offers himself, or is presented by others, to be elected to an office. Derived from the Latin Candidas, (white,) because in Rome it was the custom for those who

The act of examining and counting the returns of votes cast at a public election. Bowler v. Eisenhood, 1 S. Dak. 577, 48 N. W. 130, 12 L. It. A. 705; Clark

A thing which Is stolen, or the value of it. Blount.