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1. An alteration; substitution of one tiling for another. This word does not connote either improvement or deterioration as a result. In this respect it differs from amendment, which, in law, always

In general. An incumbrance, lien, or burden; an obligation or duty; a liability; an accusation. Darling v. Rogers, 22 Wend. (N. Y.) 491. In contracts. An obligation, binding upon him who enters

A collection of the laws of the forest, made in the 9th Hen. III. and said to have been originally a part of Magna Charta.

(For returning the charters.) An ancient writ which lay against one who had charters of feoffment intrusted to his keeping and refused to deliver them. Reg. Orig. 159.

In English law. A list or book, containing the names of such as are attendants on, or in the pay of. the queen or other great personages, as their household servants.

The presiding judge of the English court of exchequer; answering to tlie chief justice of other courts. ‘?> 111. Comm. 44; 3 Steph. Comm. 101

In English law. The stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds is a nominal otlice in the gift of the crown, usually accepted by members of the house of commons desirous of vacating their

Fr. A thing; an article of property. A chose is a chattel personal, (Williams, Pers. Prop. 4,) and is either in possession or in actiou. See the following titles.

An old English law term for the stocks, an instrument in which the wrists or ankles of petty offenders were confined.

In Anglo-Saxon and old English law q church

In the civil law. A personal action which Is instituted to compel payment, or the doing some other thing which Is purely civil.

Lat. In old Scotch law. A making clear; the purging or clearing (clenging) of an assise. Skene.

In Manx law. The keys of the Island of Man, or twelve persons to whom all ambiguous and weighty causes are referred

In old Scotch practice. A solemn form of words prescribed by law, and used in criminal cases, as in pleas of wrong and unlaw.

In ecclesiastical law. A person in holy orders; a clergyman; an individual attached to the ecclesiastical state, and who has the clerical tousure. See 4 Bl. Comm. 366, 307.

In the Roman law. A client or dependent. One who depended upon another as his patron or protector, adviser BL.LAW DICT.(2D ED.)

A valley. Also an allowance for the turn of the scale, on buying goods wholesale by weight.

In medical jurisprudence. A method of serum-diagnosis of insanity from hteniolysis (breaking up of the red corpuscles of the blood) by injections of the venom of cobras or other serpents. Tills test

A testamentary disposition subsequent to a will, and by which the will is altered, explained, added to, subtracted from, or confirmed by way of republication, but in no case totally revoked. Lamb

In old practice. That part of a fine in which the defendant acknowledged that the land in question was the right of the complainant. From this the fine itself derived its name,