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In ecclesiastical law. The general assembly of the clergy to consult upon ecclesiastical matters.

A chapman, (q. v.)

Before our lord the king. Coram domino rege ubicumque tunc fu- crit Anglix, before our lord the king wherever he shall then be in England

The crown. Placita corona; pleas of the crown; criminal actions or proceedings, in which the crown was the prosecutor.

This term, or its equivalent “body corporate,” is applied to private corporations aggregate; not including municipal corporations. Cedar County v. Johnson, 50 Mo. 225; East Oakland Tp. v. Skinner, 94 U. S.

In old records. Body for body. A phrase expressing the liability of manucaptors. 3 How. State Tr. 110. CORPUS CHRISTI DAY. In English law. A feast instituted in 1204, in honor of

A court or yard before a house. Blount

When an order is made by an appellate court reversing a judgment, with “costs to abide the event,” the costs intended by the order include those of the appeal, so that, if

Lying down; squatting. Couch ant and levant (lying down and rising up) is a term applied to animals trespassing on the land of one other than their owner, for one night or

The name of two prisons formerly standing in London, but now demolished. They were the Poultry Counter and Wood Street Counter.

To counterbalance; to avail against with equal force or virtue; to compensate for, or serve as an equivalent of or substitute for.

An order or warrant drawn by some duly authorized officer of the county, directed to the county treasurer and directing him to pay out of the funds of the county a designated

The chief appellate tribunal of England. It was established by the judicature acts of 1873 and 1875 and is invested with the jurisdiction formerly exercised by the court of appeal in chancery,

Iu English law. A court instituted for the trial, during the recess of parliament, of peers indicted for treason or felony, or for misprision of either. This court is not a permanent

See COSINAGE.

The name given to the statute 22 & 23 Car. II. c. 1, which provided for the punishment of assaults with intent to maim or disfigure a person. It was so named

In old English law. A word of disgrace and obloquy, pronounced on either champion, in the ancient trial by battle. proving recreant, i. e

Under the head of “creditors” are included, not alone those who have lent mon ey, but all to whom from any cause a debt is owing. Dig. 50, 16, 11.

One for which the punishment of death is pref scribed and inflicted. Walker v. State, 28 Tex. 1 App. 503. 13 S. W. 860; Ex parte Dusen.berry, 97 Mo. 504. 11 S.

One instituted and conducted for the purpose either of preventing the commission of crime, or for fixing the guilt of a crime already committed and punishing the offender; as distinguished from a