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Officers formerly attached to the English court of chancery, whose duties consisted principally in sealing bills of complaint and writs of execution, filing affidavits, keeping a record of suits, and certifying office

In admiralty law, this nautical term means the arrangement or trim of a vessel’s sails when she endeavors to make a progress in the nearest direction possible towards that point of the

Vessels “plying coastwise” are those which are engaged in the domestic trade, or plying between port and port in the United States, as contradistinguished from those engaged in the foreicn trade, or

The new code of Justinian; or the new edition of the first or old code, promulgated A. D. 534. being the one now extant. Mackeld. Rom. Law, 5 78. Tayl. Civil Law,

Ensigns and arms, or a military coat painted with arms. Mat. Par. 1250.

In old English law. Associate judges having equality of power with others.

A person temporarily appointed by the probate court to collect rents, assets, interest, bills receivable, etc., of a decedent’s estate, and act for the estate in all financial matters requiring immediate settlement.

One of the usual parts of the declaration in an action for slander. It is a general averment that the words complained of were spoken “of and concerning the plaintiff,” or concerning

In old English law. Fellow-barons; fellow-citizens. The citizens or freemen of the Cinque Ports being anciently called “barons;” the term “combarones” is used in this sense in a grant of Henry III.

In Roman law. An assembly, either (1) of the Roman curiae, in which case it was called the “comitia curiata vel calata;” or (2) of the Roman centuries, in which case it

He who holds a church living or preferment in commcndam.

The whole body of officers who make up the commissaries’ department of an army

In practice. To send a person to prison by virtue of a lawful authority, for any crime or contempt, or to an asylum, workhouse, reformatory, or the like, by authority of a

The right or liberty of fishing in another man’s water, in common with the owner or with other persons. 2 Bl. Comm. 34. A liberty or right of fishing in the water

In conveyancing. A species of common assurance, or mode of conveying lands by matter of record, formerly in frequent use In England. It was in the nature and form of an action

In English law. An obsolete writ which anciently lay for the lord, whose tenant, holding by knight’s service, died, and left his eldest son under age, against a stranger that entered the

Community property is property acquired by husband and wife, or either, during marriage, when not acquired as the separate property of cither. In re Lux’s Estate, 114 Cal. 73, 45 Pac. 1023;

An instrument used by mariners to point out the course of a ship at sea. It consists of a magnetized steel bar called the “needle,” attached to the under side of a

In practice. A plea in an action of debt on a bail bond that the defendant appeared at the day required.

An agreement embodying the terms of a composition between a debtor and his creditors