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The process of collecting and arranging the laws of a country or state into a code, t. e., into a complete system of positive law, scientifically ordered, and promulgated by legislative authority.

Lat. In the civil law. Cognates; relations by the mother’s side. 2 HI. Comm. 235. Relations in the line of the mother. Hale, Com. Law, c. xi. Relations by or through females.

To fashion pieces of metal into a prescribed shape, weight, and degree of fineness, and stamp them with prescribed devices, by authority of government, in order that they may circulate as money.

A writ directed to justices of the common pleas, commanding them to issue their writ to the bishop, for the admission of a clerk in the place of another presented by the

One who litigates with another.

In old Scotch law. A young beast or cow, of the age of one or two years; in later times called a “cowdash.”

In old English law. A county or shire; the body of a county. The territorial jurisdiction of a comes, i. e., count or earl. The county court, a court of great antiquity

In ecclesiastical LAW. The appointment of a suitable clerk to hold a void or vacant benefice or church living until a regular pastor be appointed. Hob. 144; Latch, 230.

In old practice. A clause sometimes added at the end of writs, admonishing the sheriff to be faithful in executing them. Bract fol. 398

The compensation or reward paid to a factor, broker, agent, bailee, executor, trustee, receiver, etc., when the same is calculated as a percentage on the amount of his transactions or the amount

A right of feeding one’s beasts on the land of another, (in common with the owner or with others.) which is founded on a grant, or a prescription which supposes a grant.

Three acts of parliament, passed in the years 1852, 1854. and I860, respectively, for the amendment of the procedure in the common-law courts. The common-law procedure act of 1852 is St. 15

The common place of justice. The seat of the principal courts, especially those that are fixed.

A name given to proposed systems of life or social organization based upon the fundamental principle of the non-existence of private property and of a community of goods in a society. An

That doctrine in the law of negligence by which the negligence of the parties is compared, in the degrees of “slight,” “ordinary,” and “gross” negligence, and a recovery permitted, notwithstanding the contributory

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Having the use of one’s limbs, or the power of bodily motion. Si fuit ita compos sui quod itinerare potuit de loco in locum, if he had so far the use of

In the civil law. An arbitrator

To compute, reckon, or account. Used in the phrases insimul computassent, “they reckoned together,” (see INSIMITL 😉 plene computavit, “he has fully accounted,” (see PLENE 😉 quod computet, “that he account,” (see

A grant; ordinarily applied to the grant of specific privileges by a government; French and Spanish grants in Louisiana. See Western M. & M. Co. v. Peytona Coal Co., 8 W. Va.