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In Saxon and old English law. Castle work. Service and labor done by inferior tenants for the building and upholding castles and public places of defense. One of the three necessary charges,

Inevitable accident; an event not to lie foreseen or guarded against. A loss from such an event or cause; as by fire, shipwreck, lightning, etc. Story, Bailm.

A name formerly given to a sheriff’s deputy, or to a constable, or other officer whose duty it is to arrest persons. He was a sort of Serjeant The word Is not

A meeting of the legal voters of any political party assembled for the purpose of choosing delegates or for the nomination of candidates for office. Pub. St. N. II. 1901, p. 140,

Books kept In the central office of the English supreme court, in which are entered all writs of summons issued in the oflice. Rules of Court, v 8

In French law. The same as becoming surety in English law.

In medical jurisprudence. Concealment of pregnancy or delivery

A redeemable annuity; otherwise called “censo redimible.” Trevino v. Fernandez, 13 Tex. 630.

This word is used to express the system of government prevailing in a country where the management of local matters is in the hauds of functionaries appointed by the ministers of state,

The certificate of a notary public, justice of the peace, or other authorized officer, attached to a deed, mortgage, or other instrument, setting forth that the parties thereto personally appeared before him

In Spanish law. An assignee. White, New Recop. b. 3, tit. 10, c. 1,

He whose life is the measure of the duration of an estate. 1 Washb. Real Prop. 88. The person for whose life any lands, tenements, or hereditaments are held. Cestuy que doit

In French law. A sovereign court, of great antiquity, in France, which took cognizance of and registered the accounts of the king’s revenue; nearly the same as the English court of exchequer.

In criminal law. An accident ; an unexpected, unforeseen, or uuin- tended consequence of an act; a fortuitous event. The opposite of intention, design, or contrivance. There is a wide difference between

A place of worship; a lesser or inferior church, sometimes a part of or subordinate to another church. Webster. Rex v. Nixon, 7 Car. & P. 442.

Weighty; heavy; penal; expensive. Kelhani.

A challenge to a single combat; also an Instrument or writing between BL.LAW DICT.(2D ED.)

This term, as used in statutes, means actual personal virtue, and not reputation or good name. It may include the character of one who was formerly unchaste but is reformed. Kenyon v.

In old French law. The privilege or prerogative of the eldest. A provincial term derived from chcmicr, (q. v.) Guyot, Inst.

In old English law. A high judicial officer and special magistrate, who presided over the aula- regis of the Norman kings, and who was also the principal minister of state, the second