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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.

A mulct anciently paid by one who killed another, to the kindred of the deceased. Spelman.

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.

That kind of punishment used by the ancients, and still used by the Chinese, called by Staunton the “wooden collar,” by which the neck of the malefactor Is bent or weighed down.

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

The ecclesiastical court.

In old English law. A measure containing four bushels or half a quarter of corn. Cowell; Blount

In old records. A ridge. Cur- sones tcncc, ridges of laud. Cowell.

The care and keeping of anything; as when an article is said to be “in the custody of the court.” People v. Burr, 41 How. Prac. (N. Y.) 296; Emerson v. State,

In old English law. Keeper of the pleas of the crown. Bract fol. 146. Cowell supposes this office to have been the same with the custos rotulorum. But it seems rather to

As near as [possible.] The rule of cy-prcs is a rule for the construction of instrumeuts in equity, by which the intention of the party is carried out as near as may

Children born under a legitimate marriage follow the condition of the father.