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In English practice. A printed roll of actions, to be tried in the order of their entry, with the names of the solicitors for each litigant. Similar to the calendar of causes,

In Scotch law. Suretyship

In medical jurisprudence. Concealment of pregnancy or delivery

A redeemable annuity; otherwise called “censo redimible.” Trevino v. Fernandez, 13 Tex. 630.

The central office of the supreme court of judicature in England Is the office established in pursuance of the recommendation of the legal depart CENTRALIZATION 182 CERTA DEBET ESSE INTENTIO ments commission

In English practice. A certificate or memorandum drawn up and signed by the judge before whom a case was tried, setting out certain facts the existence of which must be thus proved

In English chancery practice. An original bill praying relief. It was filed for the purpose of removing a suit pending in some inferior court of equity into the court of chancery, on

The act of ceding; a yielding or giving up; surrender; relinquishment of property or rights. In the civil law. An assignment. The act by which a party transfers property to another. The

Traffic; the practice of buying and selling

A portion of the effects of a deceased person, reserved for the use of his widow, and consisting of her apparel, and the furniture of her bed-chamber, is called In London the

An ancient officer, whose duty it was to ride armed cap-a-pie. into Westminster Hall at the coronation, while the king was at dinner, and, by the proclamation of a herald, make a

This term refers rather to the bed in which the main stream of a river flows than to the deep water of the stream as followed in navigation. Bridge Co. v. Dubuque

A paper kept at a police-station to receive each night the names of the persons brought and given into custody, the nature of the accusation, and the name of the accuser in

A chart, or plan, which mariners use at sea.

In old English law. A place where all alike were entitled to hunt wild animals.

The old Scotch form of exchequer

The presiding judge in the king’s bench division of the high court of justice, and, in the absence of the lord chancellor, president of the high court, and also an ex officio

The way by which the king and all his subjects and all under his protection have a right to pass, though the property of the soil of each side where the way

A right to personal things of which the owner has not the possession, but merely a right of action for their possession. 2 Bl. Comm. 3S9, 397; 1 Chit. Pr. 99. A

CHURCHESSET. In old English law. A certain portion or measure of wheat, anciently paid to the church on St. Martin’s day; and which, according to Fleta, was paid as well in the