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To ask or demand; as to crave oyer. See OYER.

In English practice. A bill In equity, filed by one or more creditors, for an account of the assets of a decedent, and a legal settlement and distribution of his estate among

A crime is an act committed or omitted, in violation of a public law, either forbidding or commanding it; a breach or violation of some public right or duty due to a

The statutes 24 & 25 Viet. cc. 94-160. passed in 1861. for the consolidation of the criminal law of England and Ireland. 4 Steph. Comm. 297. These important statutes amount to a

An action brought by one who is defendant in a suit against the party who is plaintiff in such suit, upon a cause of action growing out of the same transaction which

The Intentional and malicious infliction of physical suffering upon living creatures, particularly human beings; or, as applied to the latter, the wanton, malicious, and unnecessary infliction of pain upon the body, or

He who is allowed to do the greater ought not to be prohibited from doing the less. He who has authority to do the more important act ought not to be debarred

Gross negligence is held equivalent to intentional wrong.

The initial letter of the word “Codex,” used by some writers in citing the Code of Justiniau. Tayl. Civil Law, 24. It was also the letter iuscribed on the ballots by which,

A large and strong rope or chain, such as is attached to a vessel’s anchors, or the traction-rope of a street railway operated by the cable system, (Hooper v. Railway Co., 85

Other things being equal.

Successively drawing out of a box into which they have been previously put the names of the jurors on the panels annexed to the nisi prius record, and calling them over in

In old English law. A chamber, room, or apartment; a judge’s chamber ; a treasury; a chest or coffer. Also, a stipend payable from vassal to lord; an annuity.

A chancellor; a scrivener, or notary. A Janitor, or one who stood at the door of the court and was accustomed to carry out the commands of the judges.

A lump, or that which is added above measure; also a piece of anything, as “cantel of bread,” or the like. Blount.

(You take the outlaw.) In English practice. A writ which lies against a person who has been outlawed in an action, by which the sheriff is commanded to take him, and keep

A head-land. A piece of land lying at the head of other land.

In old records. A cap. Cappa honoris, the cap of honor. One of the solemnities or ceremonies of creating an earl or marquis.

A dead head; dead ; obsolete.

In French law. Lack of assets ; insolvency. A prods-verbal de carence is a document setting out that the huissier attended to issue execution upon a judgment, but found nothing upon which