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In English law. An instrument under the great seal, by which a pardon is granted to a man for a felony or other offense.

An interest in corporeal hereditaments less than a freehold. 2 Kent, Comm. 342.

In old Scotch law. A chier dwelling or mansion house

The borsholder, or chief of the borough. Spelman

In Roman law. Writings emanating from a single party, the debtor.

In Its most general sense, the religious society founded and established by Jesus Christ, to receive, preserve, and propagate his doctrines and ordinances. A body or community of Christians, united under one

This term is more comprehensive than the term “money.” as it is the medium of exchanges, or purchases and sales, whether it be gold or silver coin or any other article.

In general, A member of a free city or jural society, (civitas.) possessing all the rights and privileges which can be enjoyed by any person under its constitution and government, and subject

A claim set up and urged by the defendant in opposition to or reduction of the claim presented by the plaintiff. See, more fully, COUNTEB-CLAIM.

In English law. Rolls which contain all such matters of record as were committed to close writs; these rolls are preserved in the Tower.

Evidence which is positive, precise and explicit, as opposed to ambiguous, equivocal, or contradictory proof, and which tends directly to establish the point to which it is adduced, instead of leaving it

See ADMITTENDO CLEBICO

See PETTY BAG

One in which the directors and officers have the power to fill vacancies in their own number, without allowing to the general body of stockholders any choice or vote in their election.

The edge or margin of a country bounding on the sea. It is held that the term includes small islands and reefs naturally connected with the adjacent land, and rising above the

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

In maritime law. The act of ships or vessels striking together. In its strict sense, collision means the impact of two vessels both moving, and is distinguished from allision, which designates the