CHACER L FR
To drive, compel, or oblige; also to chase or hunt.
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To drive, compel, or oblige; also to chase or hunt.
A term applied to all such judicial business as may properly be transacted by a judge at his chambers or elsewhere, as distinguished from such as must be done by the court
In criminal law. A sudden affray. This word is sometimes applied to any kind of homicide by misadventure, but in strictness it is applicable to such killing only as happens in defending
The precinct and limits of a chapel. The same thing to a chapel as a parish is to a church. Cowell; Blount.
Having the character or purpose of a charity, (g. v.)
In English law. An instrument under the great seal, by which a pardon is granted to a man for a felony or other offense.
An interest in corporeal hereditaments less than a freehold. 2 Kent, Comm. 342.
In old Scotch law. A chier dwelling or mansion house
The borsholder, or chief of the borough. Spelman
In Roman law. Writings emanating from a single party, the debtor.
In Its most general sense, the religious society founded and established by Jesus Christ, to receive, preserve, and propagate his doctrines and ordinances. A body or community of Christians, united under one
This term is more comprehensive than the term “money.” as it is the medium of exchanges, or purchases and sales, whether it be gold or silver coin or any other article.
In general, A member of a free city or jural society, (civitas.) possessing all the rights and privileges which can be enjoyed by any person under its constitution and government, and subject
A claim set up and urged by the defendant in opposition to or reduction of the claim presented by the plaintiff. See, more fully, COUNTEB-CLAIM.
In English law. Rolls which contain all such matters of record as were committed to close writs; these rolls are preserved in the Tower.
Evidence which is positive, precise and explicit, as opposed to ambiguous, equivocal, or contradictory proof, and which tends directly to establish the point to which it is adduced, instead of leaving it
See ADMITTENDO CLEBICO
See PETTY BAG
One in which the directors and officers have the power to fill vacancies in their own number, without allowing to the general body of stockholders any choice or vote in their election.
The edge or margin of a country bounding on the sea. It is held that the term includes small islands and reefs naturally connected with the adjacent land, and rising above the