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The name of an English court of record held once in the year, and not oftener, within a particular hundred, lordship, or manor, before the steward of the leet; being the king’s

An ancient court of the Cinque Ports, having jurisdiction in maritime matters, and particularly over pilots (lodemen.)

Kindred in the fourth degree, being the issue (male or female) of the brother or sister of one’s father or mother. Those who descend from the brother or sister of the father

A contraction, In the old books, of the word “convent”

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.

One which is brought by a defendant in a suit against a plaintiff in or against other defendants in the same suit, or against both, touching the matters in question in the

In English law. A private and confidential assembly of the most considerable ministers of state, to concert measures for the administration of public affairs; first established by Charles I. Wharton.

Lat. Other; another; the rest.

The public calling of the docket or list of causes at the commencement of a term of court, for the purpose of disposing of the same with regard to setting a time

In the civil law. Change or exchange. A term applied indifferently to the exchange of land, money, or debts. Cambium reale or manuale was the term generally used to denote the technical

The dignity of the chancellor of England is that he is deemed the second from the sovereign in the kingdom. 4 Inst. 78.

In the civil law. A method of dividing property held in common by two or more joint owners. See Hayes v. Cuny, 9 Mart. O. S. (La.) 87.

(That you take for the fine or in mercy.) Formerly, if the verdict was for the defendant, the plaintiff was adjudged to be amerced for his false claim; but. if the verdict