COMMON DEBTOR
In Scotch law. A debtor whose effects have been arrested by several creditors. In regard to these creditors, he is their common debtor, and by this term is distinguished in the proceedings
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In Scotch law. A debtor whose effects have been arrested by several creditors. In regard to these creditors, he is their common debtor, and by this term is distinguished in the proceedings
(With a grain of salt) With allowance for exaggeration.
Lat. Care; charge; oversight; guardianship. In the civil law. A species of guardianship which commenced at the age of puberty, (when the guardianship called “tutela” expired,) and continued to the completion of
The court of admiralty.
In Scotch law. Curtesy. Also the privileges, prerogatives, or, perhaps, retinue, of a court
An officer of the court of exchequer, who is appointed by patent under the great seal to be one of the barons of the exchequer. The office was abolished by St. 19
In the custody of the law. Stockwell v. Robinson, 9 Houst. (Del.) 313, 32 Atl. 528.
In old English law. Warden of the sea. The title of a high naval officer among the Saxons and after the Conquest, corresponding with admiral.
The portion belonging to the nation of the mulct for slaying the king, the other portion or tcera being due to his family. Blount
One entered by consent of the parties; it is not properly a judicial sentence, but is in the nature of a solemn contract or agreement of the parties, made under the sanction
When there is a disagreement in the substance, it appears that there is no acceptance. Gardner v. Lane, 12 Allen (Mass.) 44.
One who takes care of a thing.
In old English law. A court-baron. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 53.
A curious [overnice or subtle) and captious interpretation is reprobated in law. 1 Bulst. 6.
Clerks in the chancery office, whose duties consisted in drawing up those writs which were of course, dc cursu, whence their name. They were abolished by St. 5 & 6 Wm. IV.
In English law. A grant from the crown under the exchequer seal, by which the custody of lands, etc., seised in the king’s hands, is demised or committed to some person as
The guardian of morals. The court of queen’s bench has been so styled. 4 Steph. Comm. 377.
A mulct anciently paid by one who killed another, to the kindred of the deceased. Spelman.
Dig. 34, 5, 24. Where an ambiguous, or even an erroneous, expression occurs in a will, it should be construed liberally, and in accordance with the testator’s probable meaning. Broom,Max. 568.
In ecclesiastical law. Properly, an incumbent who has the cure of souls, but now generally restricted to signify the spiritual assistant of a rector or vicar in his cure. An officiating temporary