CROSS-ERRORS
Errors being assigned by the respondent in a writ of error, the errors assigned on both sides are called “cross-errors.” As to cross “Appeal,” “Bill,” “Complaint,” “Examination,” “Remainder,” “Rules,” see those titles.
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Errors being assigned by the respondent in a writ of error, the errors assigned on both sides are called “cross-errors.” As to cross “Appeal,” “Bill,” “Complaint,” “Examination,” “Remainder,” “Rules,” see those titles.
See PUNISHMENT.
Whose is the advantage, his also should be the disadvantage.
Lat. In old English law. Guilty. Culpabilis de intrusione,
An abbreviation for curia ad- visari vult, the court will be advised, will consider, will deliberate.
An inferior bailiff, or catchpoll. Jacob.
When a limited administration has been granted, and all the property cannot be administered under it. administration ewtcrorum (as to the residue) may be granted.
In English practice. Conferring the dignity or degree of barrister at law upon a member of one of the inns of court. Holthouse.
The old name of the exchequer chamber, (q. v.)
The rails or lattice work or balusters inclosing the bar of a court of justice or the communion table. Also the lines drawn on the face of a will or other writing,
A district comprising a hundred villages; a hundred. A term used in Wales in the same sense as “hundred” is in England. Cowell; Termes de la Ley.
In political economy, that portion of the produce of industry existing in a country, which may be made directly available, either for the support of human existence, or the facilitating of production;
In old law and surveys. To head, front, or abut; to touch at the head, oi end.
In French law. The act of one who succeeds in controlling the will of another, so as to become master of it; used in an invidious sense. Zerega v. Perei- vnl, 46
prin- cipium, et finis. The head, beginning, and end. A term applied in English law to the king, as head of parliament. 4 Inst 3 ; 1 Bl. Comm. 188.
A carter. Blount.
In Spanish law. A carriage-way; the right of a carriage-way. Las Partidas, pt. 3, tit. 31, 1. 3.
A white sheet of paper; an instrument signed, but otherwise left blank. A sheet given to an agent, with the principal’s signature appended, to be filled up with any contract or engagement
A formal written enumeration of the facts in a case, assented to by both parties as correct and complete, and submitted to the court by their agreement, in order that a decision
(Lat. That the writ be quashed.) In practice. The form of the judgment for the defendant on a plea in abatement where the action was commenced by original writ, (breve.) 3 Bl.