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In old English law. A tax upon trade; a toll imposed upon traffic, or upon goods brought to a place to be sold.

Under the municipal organization of the state of New Jersey, each county has a board of officers, called by this name, composed of representatives from the cities and townships within its limits,

The name of a system of courts of the United States, invested with general original jurisdiction of such matters and causes as are of Federal cognizance, except the matters specially delegated to

A summons to take up the cause. A process, in the civil law, which issued when one of the parties to a suit died before its determination, for the plaintiff against the

Lat. In the Roman law. A citizen ; as distinguished from incola, (an inhabitant;) origin or birth constituting the former, domicile the latter. Code, 10, 40, 7. And see U. S. v.

In the practice of the English chancery division, where there are several parties to an administration action, including those who have been served with notice of the decree or judgment, and it

One certifying that no contagious or infectious disease exists, or certifying as to healthy conditions generally without exception or reservation

The having the head shaven, which was formerly peculiar to clerks, or persons in orders, and which the coifs worn by serjeants at law are supposed to have been introduced to conceal.

See CROWN OFFICE IN CHANCERY

A gaol; a prison or dungeon

A uniting or combining together of persons; a conspiracy. 9 Coke, 56.

A collection or compendium of laws. A complete system of positive law, scientifically arranged, and promulgated by legislative authority. Johnson v. Harrison, 47 Minn. 575, 50 N. W. 923, 28 Am. St.

A house of entertainment where guests are supplied with coffee and other refreshments, and sometimes with lodging. Century Diet. A coffee-house is not an inn. Thompson v. Lacy, 3 Barn. & Aid.

A joint heiress. A woman who has an equal share of an inheritance with another woman.

In the civil law. The collation of goods is the supposed or real return to the mass of the succession which an heir makes of property which he received in advance of

tum. One which abused its right, or assembled for any other purpose than that expressed in its charter.

The appearance or semblance, without the substance, of legal right. McCain v. Des Moines, 174 U. S. 108, 19 Sup. Ct. (H4, 43 L. Ed. 936

Lat. Immediately; hand-to- hand ; in personal contact.

In practice. An authoritative order of a judge or magisterial officer. In criminal law. The act or offense of one who commands another to transgress the law, or do anything contrary to

The term “commercial paper” means bills of exchange, promissory notes, bank-checks, and other negotiable instniments for the payment of money, enloswhich, by their form and on their face, purport to be such