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An obsolete writ that lay where a house was within a borough, for rent issuing out of the same, and which warranted the taking of doors, windows, etc., by way of distress

A term which includes the domestic animals generally; all the animals used by man for labor or food. Animals of the bovine genus. In a wider sense, all domestic animals used by

The reason is open, obvious. plain, clear, or manifest. A common expression in old writers. Perk. c. 1,

Security given by pledge, or deposit, as plate, money, or other goods.

In old English law. Cay- age or kayage; a toll or duty anciently paid for landing goods at a quay or wharf. Cowell.

A notice given by a buyer to a seller that the things which had been sold were claimed by another, in order that he might appear and justify the sale. Blount; Whishaw.

A coin of the United States, the least in value of those now minted. It is the one-hundreth part of a dollar. Its weight is 72 gr., and it is composed of

In old English law. A payment to provide candles in the church. Blount

In French law. Certificates given by a foreign lawyer, establishing the law of the country to which he belongs upon one or more fixed points. These certificates can be produced before the

In Roman law. A fictitious suit, in which the person who was to acquire the thing claimed (vindicabat) the filing as his own, the person who was to transfer it acknowledged the

A name given to the presiding officer of an assembly, public meeting, convention, deliberative or legislative body, board of directors, committee, etc.

A name anciently given to St. Edward’s chamber, called the “Painted Chamber,” destroyed by fire with the houses of parliament

In England. this is the highest judicial functionary in the kingdom, and superior, in point of precedency, to every temporal lord. He is appointed by the delivery of the king’s great seal

To impose a burden, obligation, or lien; to create a claim against property; to claim, to demand; to accuse; to instruct a jury on matters of law. In the first sense above

In old English law. A chirographed charter; a charter executed in two parts, and cut through the middle, (scindi- tur per medium,) where the word “cyrograph- um,” or “chirographum.” was written in

In mercantile law. One who charters (

To control or restrain; to hold within bounds. To verify or audit Particularly used with reference to the control or supervision of one department, bureau, or office over another.

Principal; leading; head; eminent in power or importance; the most important or valuable of several. Declaration in chief is a declaration for the principal cause of action. 1 Tidd, Pr. 419. Examination

The right which a lord had of taking a flue of his bondwoman gotteii with child without his license. Termes de la Ley; Cowell.

In ancient times a person admitted to sit and worship in the choir; a chorister.