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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

In English law. A license by the lord mayor of London to keep a cart.

In old English law. The charter of the forest. More commonly called “Charta de Forcsta,” {q. v.)

1. A general term for an action, cause, suit, or controversy, at law or in equity; a question contested before a court of justice; an aggregate of facts which furnishes occasion for

(Fr. cour de causation.) The highest court in France; so termed from possessing the power to quash (causer) the decrees of inferior courts. It is a court of appeal in criminal as

In old English law. Rents paid by those that dwelt within the precincts of a castle, towards the maintenance of such as watched and warded it.

Lo opuesto a la “buena fe”, por lo general lo que implica o que involucra fraude real o presunto, o un plan para inducir a error o engaño a otro, o una

In Scotch law. A creditor whose debt is secured on all or several distinct parts of the debtor’s property. Bell.

A form of action which anciently lay against a party who boasted or gave out that he or she was married to the plaintiff, whereby a common reputation of their marriage might

In the civil and French law. Security given for the performance of any thing; bail; a bond or undertaking by way of surety. Also the person who becomes a surety. In Scotch

Let the traveler beware. This phrase has been used as a concise expression of the duty of a traveler on the highway to use due care to detect and avoid CAVEATOR 180

A place of burial, differing from a churchyard by its locality and incidents,

A dead rent, like that which is called “mortmain.” Blount; Cowell.

In civil practice. He took. This was the characteristic word employed in (Latin) writs of trespass for goods taken, and in declarations in trespass and replevin. Replevin in the ecpit is a

The same as “certificate of purchase,” supra, (q. v.)

(Let execution stay.) In practice. A stay of execution; or an order for such stay; the entry of such stay on record. 2 Tidd, Pr. 1104.

An ancient term for goods, wares, and merchandise