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Keeper of the chamber. Originally the chamberlain was the keeper of the treasure chamber (camera) of the prince or state; otherwise called “treasurer.” Cowell. The name of several high officers of state

In English law. The official head of a university. Ilis principal prerogative is to hold a court with jurisdiction over the members of the university, in which court the vice- chancellor presides.

An ecclesiastic who performs divine service in a chapel; but it more commonly means one who attends upon a king, prince, or other person of quality, for the performance of clerical duties

Subjectively, the sentiment or motive of benevolence and philanthropy; the disposition to relieve the distressed. Objectively, alms-giving; acts of benevolence; relief, assistance, or services accorded to the needy without return. Also gifts

Formerly a convent of Carthusian monks in London; now a college founded and endowed by Thomas Sutton. The governors of the charter-house are a corporation aggregate without a head, president, or superior,

A homicide committed in the heat of an affray and while under the influence of passion; it is thus distinguished from chancc-mcdlcy, which is the killing of a man in a casual

In old records. A loan or advance of money upon credit. Cowell.

In English feudal law. All the land in the kingdom was supposed to be hnlden mediately or immediately of the king, who was styled the “Lord Paramount.” or “Lord Above All:” and

In Roman law. A handwriting; that which was written with a person’s own hand. An obligation which a person wrote or subscribed with his own hand; an acknowledgment of debt, as of

The statute 3 & 4 Vict. c. 86, containing regulations for trying clerks in holy orders charged with offenses against ecclesiastical law, and for enforcing sentences pronounced in such cases. Phillim. Ecc.

In Scotch practice. The sentence of a judge, declaring the time elapsed within which a proof ought to have been led, and precluding the party from bringing forward any further evidence. Bell.

Ill England. An incorporated town or borough which is or has been the see of a bishop. Co. Litt. 10S; 1 Bl. Comm. 114; Cowell. State v. Green, 126 N. C. 103’2,

A technical phrase of the Roman law, meaning by force, stealth, or importunity. Clam delinquentes magis puniuntur quam palam. 8 Coke, 127. Those sinning secretly are punished more severely than those sinning

Lat. Close, closed up, sealed. Inclosed, as a parcel of laud.

In maritime law. A document in the nature of a certificate given by the collector of customs to an outward- bound vessel, to the effect that she has complied with the law,

An ancient writ, that lay for the delivery to his ordinary of a clerk convicted of felony, where the ordinary did not challenge him according to the privilege of clerks. Reg. Orig.

An officer, in England, whose duty it is to attend on the king’s principal secretary, who always has the custody of the privy signet, as well for the purpose of sealing his

In game and fish laws, this term means the season of the year in which the taking of particular game or fish is prohibited, or in which all hunting or fishing is

A term applied to vessels plying exclusively between domestic ports, and usually to those engaged in domestic trade, as distinguished from vessels engaged in foreign trade and plying between a port of

A collection of imperial constitutions made by Gregorius. a Roman jurist of the fifth century, about the middle of the century. It contained the constitutions from Hadrian down to Constantine. Mac- keld.