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He who has the right of giving has also the right of selling and granting. Dig. 50, 17, 163.

Lat A term of the civil law, meaning fault, neglect, or negligence. There are three degrees of culpa,

Where both parties to a judgment appeal therefrom, the appeal of each is called a “cross-appeal” as regards that of the other. 3 Steph. Comm. 5S1.

A small association for the purpose of intrigue; an intrigue. This name was given to that ministry in the reign of Charles II. formed by Clifford, Ashley, Buckingham, Arlington, and Lauderdale, who

In the civil and old common law. Kept for cutting; intended or used to be cut. A term applied to wood.

1. In English law. The election of students to the degree of barrister at law, hence the ceremony or epoch of election, and the number of persons elected. 2. In conveyancing. A

Champerty; from campus, a field, and partus, divided. Spelman.

An artificial ditch or trench in the earth, for confining water to a defined channel, to be used for purposes of transportation. The meaning of this word, when applied to artificial passages

In old English law. A canon. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 69,

A writ of execution, (usually termed, for brevity, a “ca. sa.,”) which a party may issue after having recovered judgment against another in certain actions at law. It commands the sheriff to

Chief justice of the bench. The title of the chief justice of the (now) court of common pleas, first mentioned in the first year of Edward I. 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, 48.

Assemblies or chapters, held by rural deans and parochial clergy, within the precinct of every deanery; which at first were every three weeks, afterwards once a month, and subsequently once a quarter.

The castle or chief seat of a baron.

A prison is ordained not for the sake of punishment, but of detention and guarding. Lofft, 119.

The act of a man in having sexual bodily connection with a woman. Carnal knowledge and sexual intercourse held equivalent expressions. Noble v. State, 22 Ohio St. 541. From very early times,

To provide funds or credit for its payment for the period agreed upon from the date of purchase. Saltus v. Genin, 16 N. Y. Super. Ct. 200. And see Pickering v. Demerritt,

The name as carucage, (q. v.) Cowell.

An officer of a moneyed Institution, or commercial house, or bank, who is intrusted with, and whose duty it is to take care of, the cash or money of such institution or

An engine used to punish women who have been convicted of being common scolds. It is sometimes called the “trebucket,” “tumbrel,” “ducking-stool,” or “cucking-stool.” U. S. v. Royall, 27 Fed. Cas. 907.

An occurrence giving rise to or justifying war.