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Pertaining to Jesus Christ or the religion founded by him; professing Christianity. The adjective is also used in senses more remote from its original meaning. Thus a “court Christian” is an ecclesiastical

As used in statutes providing for taxes on the circulation of banks, this term includes all currency or circulating notes or bills, or certificates or bills intended to circulate as money. U.

To summon; to command the presence of a person; to notify a person of legal proceedings against him and require his appearance thereto. To read or refer to legal authorities, in an

In practice. An intervention by a third person in a suit, claiming that he has rightful jurisdiction of the cause which the plaintiff has commenced out of the claimant’s court. Now obsolete.

In French law. The name given to the clause whereby one party to a contract reserves to himself the right to annul it

Plain; evident; free from doubt or conjecture; also, unincumbered; free from deductions or draw-backs.

The six clerks in chancery. 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, 251

In English law. An officer whose duties are to officiate at sessions of the peace, to prepare indictments, and to record the proceedings of the justices, and to perform a number of

Copies of legal documents which might be written closely or loosely at pleasure; as distinguished from office copies, which were to contain only a prescribed number of words on each sheet.

One of two or more assignees of the same subject-matter

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(Lat cognati.) Relations by the mother’s side, or by females. Mackeld. Rom. Law,

A title given to serjeants at law, who are called “serjeants of the coif,” from the coif they wear on their heads. The use of this coif at first was to cover

In ecclesiastical law. This occurs where the bishop and patron are one and the same person, in which case the bishop cannot present the clergyman to himself, but does, by the one

This term Is sufficiently wide to include all contiguous and connected veins and seams of coal which are worked as one concern, without regard to the closes or pieces of ground under

Lat. By color of office.

A writ or commission, whereby a sheriff is authorized to enter upon the charges of a county. Reg. Orig. 295.

To commence a suit is to demand something by the institution of process in a court of justice. Cohens v. Virginia, 0 Wheat. 408, 5 L. Ed. 257. To “bring” a suit

Lat. In the civil law. Commerce; business; trade; dealings in the nature of purchase and sale; a contract. Commercium jure gentium commune esse debet, et non in monopolium et privatum paucorum qusestum

Officers appointed by and attached to the circuit courts of the United States, performing functions partly ministerial and partly judicial. To a certain extent they represent the judge in his ab- sense.