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An oflicer of the United States, appointed for the term of four years. Act May 15, 1820.

A deceitful agreement or compact between two or more persons, for the one party to bring an action against the other for some evil purpose, as to defraud a third party of

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 French law. The delivery of a benefice to one who cannot hold the legal title, to keep and manage it for a time limited aud render an account of the proceeds.

A phrase used to designate the whole body of substantive jurisprudence applicable to the rights, intercourse, and relations of persons engaged in commerce, trade, or mercantile pursuits. It is not a very

Where property has been arrested in an admiralty action in rem and ordered by the court to be sold, the order is carried out by a commission of appraisement and sale; in

An oflicer of L the United States government, being at the head of the bureau of the patent-office.

An instrument in writing on paper or parchment, which charges a person, already in prison, in execution at the suit of the person who arrested him. 2 Chit. Arclib. Pr. (12th Ed.)

A species of common by vicinage prevailing in the counties of Norfolk, Lincoln, and Yorkshire, in England; being the right of persons occupying lands lying together in the same common field to

The English court of common pleas was formerly so called. Its original title appears to have been simply “The Bench,” but it was designated “Common Bench” to distinguish it from the “King’s

In English law. The great body of citizens; the mass of the people, excluding the nobility. In American law. The body of people composing a municipal corporation, excluding the corporate officers

In old English law. Common things, res communes. Such as running water, the air, the sea, and sea shores. Bract, fol. 75.

In criminal law. Change; substitution. The substitution of one punishment for another, after conviction of the party subject to it. The change of a punishment from a greater to a less; as

Imagining or contriving, or plotting. In Englisli law, “compassing the king’s death” is treason. 4 HI. Comm. 70.

In the law of evidence. The presence of those characteristics, or the absence of those disabilities, which render a witness legally fit and qualified to give testimony in a court of justice.

The statute of ells and perches. The title of an English statute establishing a standard of measures. 1 Bl. Comm. 275.

A submission to arbitration.

The act of computing, numbering, reckoning, or estimat’ng. COMPUTUS 236 CONCESSION The account or estimation of time by rule of law, as distinguished from any arbitrary construction of the parties. Cowell.

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.