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In old European law. A keeper of records or public instruments ; a chartulary; a registrar. Spelman

A draft or order upon a bank or banking-house, purporting to be drawn upon a deposit of funds, for the payment at all events of a certain sum of money to a

subject to the direction of his superior officer, with the superintendence of the administration of the business of the ollice

In old English law. A road, way, highway. It is either the king’s highway (rhiminus regis) or a private way. The first is that over which the subjects of the realm, and

A local thing; a thing annexed to a place, as a mill. Kitchin, fol. 18; Cowell ; Blount.

A tribute anciently paid to the bishop or archbishop for visiting churches. Du Fresne.

Any violation of the privileges of a church.

One who is skilled or versed in the civil law. A doctor, professor, or student of the civil law. Also a private citizen, as distinguished from such as belong to the army

The order or rank according to which persons or things are arranged or assorted. Also a group of persons or things, taken collectively, having certain qualities in common, and constituting a unit

In old English law. A club or mace; tenure per scrjeantiam claviw, by the serjeanty of the club or mace. Cowell.

The whole body of clergymen or ministers of religion. Also an abbreviation for “benefit of clergy.” See BENEFIT.

In English law. An assistant to the clerk of assise. His duties are in the crown court on circuit

A person who employs or retains an attorney, or counsellor, to appear for him in courts, advise, assist, and defend him in legal proceedings, and to act for him in any legal

A voluntary, unincorporated association of persons for purposes of a social, literary, or political nature, or the like. A club Is not a partnership. 2 Mees. & W. 172. The word “club”

To place the yards of a ship at an angle with the deck. Pub. St Mass. 1882, p. 1288. LI CODE

In the Roman law. A codicil; an informal and inferior kind of will, in use among the Romans.

In Roman law. A man’s family name. The first name (prcnnomcn) was the proper name of the individual; the second (nornen) indicated the gens or tribe to which he belonged ; while

A phrase sometimes used to designate uncles and aunts, and other collateral antecessors, who are not strictly ancestors. Banks v. Walker, 3 Barb. Ch. (N. Y.) 438, 440.

An organized assembly or collection of persons, established by law, and empowered to co-operate for the performance of some special function or for the promotion of some common object which may be

A dependent political community, consisting of a number of citizens of the same country who have emigrated therefrom to people another, and remain subject to the mother-country. U. S. v. The Nancy,