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of Oxford and Cambridge have jurisdiction in all personal actions to which any member or servant of the respective university is a party, provided that the cause of action arose within the

A covenant by which the covenantor agrees to convey to the covenantee a certain estate, under certain circumstances.

Large; gross; excessive; extreme. Crass a ignorantia, gross ignorance. Fleta, lib. 5, c. 22,

1. The ability of a business man to borrow money, or obtain goods on time, In consequence of the favorable opinion held by the community, or by the particular lender, as to

The aggregate of seamen who man a ship or vessel, including the master and officers; or it may mean the ship’s company, exclusive of the master, or exclusive of the master and

One who has committed a criminal offense; one who bas been legally convicted of a crime; one adjudged guilty of crime. Molineux v. Collins. 177 N. Y. 395. 09 N. E. 727,

A crofter; one holding a croft.

In England, the solicitor to the treasury acts, in state prosecutions, as solicitor for the crown in preparing the prosecution. In Ireland there are officers called “crown solicitors” attached to each circuit,

To whomsoever a jurisdiction is given, those things also are supposed to be granted, without which the jurisdiction cannot be exercised. Dig. 2, 1, 2. The grant of jurisdiction implies the grant

In old records. The laying up a ship in a dock, in order to be repaired. Cowell; Blount

Equity never counteracts the laws.

An abbreviation for cum testa- mento annexo, in describing a species of administration.

Relating to or of the nature of escheat, forfeiture, or confiscation, 2 Bl. Comm. 245.

In English practice. A list kept by the sheriffs containing the names of all the prisoners in their custody, with the several judgments against each in the margin. Staundef. P. C. 182

In Spanish law. Exchange. Schm. Civil Law, 148.

In old English law. The fighting of two champions or combatants in the field; the judicial combat or duellum. 3 Inst. 221.

That duty which a clergyman owes to the bishop who ordained him, to the bishop in whose diocese he is beneficed, and also to the metropolitan of such bishop. Wharton.

A judicial writ, (usually simply termed a “capias,”) by which actions at law were frequently commenced; and which commands the sheriff to take the defendant, and him safely keep, so that he

Chief justice for holding pleas before the king. The title of the chief justice of the king’s bench, first assumed in the latter part of the reign of Henry III. 2 Reeve,

Articles of inquiry which were anciently delivered to the justices in eyre when they set out on their circuits. These schedules were designed to include all possible varieties of crime. 2 Reeve,