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Officers attached to the central criminal court in England, and to each circuit. They prepare and settle indictments against offenders, and assist the clerk of arraigns

In English law. Certain letters of the king, sealed with his great seal, and directed to particular persons and for particular purposes, which, not being proper for public inspection, are closed up

In maritime law. Commerce and navigation between different places along the coast of the United States, as distinguished from commerce with ports in foreign countries. Commercial intercourse carried on between different districts

A collection of imperial constitutions made by Ilermogenes, a jurist of the fifth century. It was nothing more than a supplement to the Codex Gregorianus. (supra.) containing the constitutions of Diocletian and

In old English law. The aeknowled gment of a fine; the certificate of such acknowledgment In the Roman law. The judicial examination or hearing of a cause.

In medical jurisprudence. Sexual intercourse; carnal copulation

One authorized to receive taxes or other impositions ; as “collector of taxes.” A person appointed by a private person to collect the credits due him.

In Freneh law. The arrangement or marshaling of the creditors of an estate in the order in which they are to be paid according to law. Merl. Repert.

An abbreviation for “company,” exactly equivalent to “Co.” Keith v. Sturges, 51 111. 142

Counts or earls palatine; those who had the government of a county palatine.

In feudal law. This was the act by which au owner of allodial land placed himself and his land under the protection of a lord, so as to constitute himself his vassal

In French law. Auctioneers, who possess the exclusive right of selling personal property at public sale in the towns in which they are established; and they possess the same right concurrently with

In Roman law. A clause which might be inserted in an agreement for a sale upon credit, to the effect that the vendor should be freed from his obligation, and might rescind

In some parts of the country a right of taking wild animals (such as conies or wildfowl) from the land of another has been found to exist; in the case of wildfowl,

A term anciently used to denote civil actions, or those depending between subject and subject, as distinguished from picas of the crown. Dallett v. Feltus. 7 Phila. (Pa.) 627. COMMON PLEAS, THE

A common or mutual bond. Applied to the common stock of consanguinity, and to the feodal bond of fealty, as the common bond of union between lord and tenant. 2 Bl. Comm.

One chargeable to the community (of husband and wife) rather than to either of the parties individually. Calhoun v. Leary, 6 Wash. 17. 32 Pac. 1070.

Belonging to commonage. Jus compascuum, the right of common of pasture.

In the civil law. A judicial inquest made by delegates or commissioners to find out and relate the truth of a cause.

An agreement, made upon a sufficient consideration, between an insolvent or embarrassed debtor and his creditors, whereby the latter, for the sake of immediate payment, agree to accept a dividend less than