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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.

One who is a joint executor with one or more others

One of several to whom an Inheritance descends.

In old English law. A comparison of marks or seals. A mode of testing the genuineness of a seal, by comparing it with another known to be genuine. Adams. See Bract, fol.

The college or society of the admiralty

That semblance or presumption of authority sustaining the acts of a public officer which is derived from his apparent title to the office or from a writ or other process in his

This phrase, anciently used in the language of pleading, and still surviving in some jurisdictions, occurs at the commencement of a defendant’s plea or demurrer; and of its two verbs the former

In French law. A special or limited partnership, where the contract is between one or more persons who are general partners, and jointly and severally responsible, and one or more other persons

A phrase used to designate the whole body of substantive jurisprudence applicable to the rights, intercourse, and relations of persons engaged in commerce, trade, or mercantile pursuits. It is not a very