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In English ecclesiastical law. All deaneries, archdeaconries, and eanonries, and generally all dignities and offices in any cathedral or collegiate church, below the rank of a bishop.

In the civil law. Consideration given and not followed, that is, by the event upon which it was given. The name of an action by which a thing given in the view

Celebrated cases. A work containing reports of the decisions of interest and importance in French courts in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Secondarily a single trial or decision is CAUSIDICUS 179 CAVEAT

Let the buyer take care. This maxim summarizes the rule that the purchaser of an article must examine, judge, and test It for himself, being bound to discover any obvious defects or

The condition or state of life of an unmarried person

In old European law. A species of oblati or voluntary slaves of churches or monasteries; those who, to procure the protection of the church, bound themselves to pay an annual tax or

In Anglo Saxon law. The freemen were divided into two classes,

A form of obligation sometimes issued by public or private corporations having practically the same force and effect as a bond, though not usually secured on any specific prop- CERTIFICATE 184 CESS

Where terms for years are raised by settlement, it is usual to introduce a proviso that they shall crane when the trusts end. This proviso generally expresses three events: (1) The trusts

An officer in the English chancery whose duty was to fit the wax to seal the writs, commissions, and other Instruments thence Issuing. The office was abolished by St 15 & 16

In old English law. Certain poor Irish scholars, clothed in mean habit, and living under no rule; also beggars banished from England. (1 Hen. V. cc. 7, 8.) Wharton.

In English ecclesiastical law. One of the quatuor persona, or four chief dignitaries of the cathedrals of the old foundation. The duties assigned to the office by the statutes of the different

A summary of matters to be inquired of or presented before justices in eyre, justices of assise, or of the peace, in their sessions. Also articles delivered by the justice in his

One administering a public or private charity; an eleemosynary institution. See People v. Fitch, 10 Misc. Rep. 464, 39 N. Y. Supp. 920; Balch v. Shaw. 174 Mass. 144, 54 N. 10.

Ancient English records of royal charters, granted between the years 1199 and 1516

An instrument of sale of personalty conveying the title of the property to the mortgagee with terms of defeasance; and, if the terms of redemption are not complied with, then, at common

A sum of money paid by villeins to their lords in acknowledgment of their bondage. Chevagc seems also to have been used for a sum of money yearly given to a man

In English law. Were the annual payments of freeholders of manors; and were also called “quit-rents,” because by paying them the tenant was freed from all other rents or services. 2 Bl.

In English law. The title of the officer of the common pleas who engrossed lines in that court so as to be acknowledged into a perpetual record. Cowell.

Statutes passed in England in and since the year 1S18, with the object of extending the accommodation afforded by the national church, so as to make it more commensurate with the wants