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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

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(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

This term Is sufficiently wide to include all contiguous and connected veins and seams of coal which are worked as one concern, without regard to the closes or pieces of ground under

Lat. By color of office.

A writ or commission, whereby a sheriff is authorized to enter upon the charges of a county. Reg. Orig. 295.

To commence a suit is to demand something by the institution of process in a court of justice. Cohens v. Virginia, 0 Wheat. 408, 5 L. Ed. 257. To “bring” a suit

Lat. In the civil law. Commerce; business; trade; dealings in the nature of purchase and sale; a contract. Commercium jure gentium commune esse debet, et non in monopolium et privatum paucorum qusestum

Officers appointed by and attached to the circuit courts of the United States, performing functions partly ministerial and partly judicial. To a certain extent they represent the judge in his ab- sense.

In, England, those administering the common law- Equitable L. Assur. Soc. v. Paterson, 41 Ga. 304, 5 Am. Rep. 535

A “civil commotion” Is an insurrection of the people for general purposes, though it may not amount to re- COMMUNE 229 COMMUNIS OPINIO belllon where there is a usurped power. 2 Marsh.

In old English law. A common writing; a writing common to both parties; a chirograph. Glan. lib. 8, c. 1.

That method of interpretation which seeks to arrive at the meaning of a statute or other writing by comparing its several parts and also by comparing it as a whole with other

(Set-off of crime or guilt.) In practice. The plea of recrimination in a suit for a divorce; that is. that the complainant is guilty of the same kind of offense with which

One who is united with others in an ill design; an associate; a confederate; an accomplice.