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To summon; to command the presence of a person; to notify a person of legal proceedings against him and require his appearance thereto. To read or refer to legal authorities, in an

In practice. An intervention by a third person in a suit, claiming that he has rightful jurisdiction of the cause which the plaintiff has commenced out of the claimant’s court. Now obsolete.

In French law. The name given to the clause whereby one party to a contract reserves to himself the right to annul it

Plain; evident; free from doubt or conjecture; also, unincumbered; free from deductions or draw-backs.

The six clerks in chancery. 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, 251

In English law. An officer whose duties are to officiate at sessions of the peace, to prepare indictments, and to record the proceedings of the justices, and to perform a number of

Copies of legal documents which might be written closely or loosely at pleasure; as distinguished from office copies, which were to contain only a prescribed number of words on each sheet.

One of two or more assignees of the same subject-matter

See CODE CIVIL

(Lat cognati.) Relations by the mother’s side, or by females. Mackeld. Rom. Law,

A title given to serjeants at law, who are called “serjeants of the coif,” from the coif they wear on their heads. The use of this coif at first was to cover

In ecclesiastical law. This occurs where the bishop and patron are one and the same person, in which case the bishop cannot present the clergyman to himself, but does, by the one

In maritime law. The act of ships or vessels striking together. In its strict sense, collision means the impact of two vessels both moving, and is distinguished from allision, which designates the

Young poles, which, being cut down, are made levers or lifters. Blount

A writ by which the charge of a county, together with the keeping of a castle, is committed to the sheriff

In French law. The delivery of a benefice to one who cannot hold the legal title, to keep and manage it for a time limited aud render an account of the proceeds.

The commonalty or the people

See COUNTY.

A right annexed to the possession of arable land, by which the owner is entitled to feed his beasts on the lands of another, usually of the owner of the manor of

One not solemnized in the ordinary way, but created by an agreement to marry, followed by cohabitation; a consummated agreement to marry, between a man and a woman, per verba de prnesenti,