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In feudal law. An imposition anciently laid upon such persons as lived within a certain distance of any castle, towards the maintenance of such as watched and warded the castle.

In the civil law. A casualty ; an extraordinary casualty, as fire, ship CASUS 176 CATHOLIC EMANCIPATION ACT wreck, etc. Dig. 44, 7, 1, 4.

In English ecclesiastical law. A sum of 2s. paid to the bishop by the inferior clergy; but from its being usually paid at the bishop’s synod, or visitation, it is commonly named

For the purpose of being entertained as a guest. 4 Maule & S. 310.

Lat Care; caution; vigilance ; prevision

In Roman law. A maxim, or rule, casting the responsibility for defects or deficiencies upon the seller of goods, and expressing the exact opposite of the common law rule of caveat emptor.

A butler in a monastery ; sometimes in universities called “manciple” or “caterer.”

In Roman law. They have decreed. The term of art, or technical term for the judgment, resolution, or decree of the senate. Tayl. Civil Law, 566.

Lat. I have taken. This word was of frequent use in the returns of sheriffs when they were made in Latin, and particularly In the return to a writ of capias. The

A certificate issued by the proper public officer to the successful bidder at a judicial sale (such as a tax sale) setting forth the fact and details of his purchase, and which

Where terms for years are raised by settlement, it is usual to introduce a proviso that they shall crane when the trusts end. This proviso generally expresses three events: (1) The trusts

An officer in the English chancery whose duty was to fit the wax to seal the writs, commissions, and other Instruments thence Issuing. The office was abolished by St 15 & 16

In old English law. Certain poor Irish scholars, clothed in mean habit, and living under no rule; also beggars banished from England. (1 Hen. V. cc. 7, 8.) Wharton.

In English ecclesiastical law. One of the quatuor persona, or four chief dignitaries of the cathedrals of the old foundation. The duties assigned to the office by the statutes of the different

A summary of matters to be inquired of or presented before justices in eyre, justices of assise, or of the peace, in their sessions. Also articles delivered by the justice in his

One administering a public or private charity; an eleemosynary institution. See People v. Fitch, 10 Misc. Rep. 464, 39 N. Y. Supp. 920; Balch v. Shaw. 174 Mass. 144, 54 N. 10.

Ancient English records of royal charters, granted between the years 1199 and 1516

An instrument of sale of personalty conveying the title of the property to the mortgagee with terms of defeasance; and, if the terms of redemption are not complied with, then, at common

A sum of money paid by villeins to their lords in acknowledgment of their bondage. Chevagc seems also to have been used for a sum of money yearly given to a man

In English law. Were the annual payments of freeholders of manors; and were also called “quit-rents,” because by paying them the tenant was freed from all other rents or services. 2 Bl.