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guardians of the peace. 1 Bl. Comm. 349

A gamekeeper. Townsh. Pi. 205.

A hundred-weight; one hundred and twelve pounds. Helm v. Bryant, 11 B. Mon. (Ky.) 64.

In old English practice. An ordinary day in court. Cowell; Termes de la Ley.

When two rights meet in one person, it is the same as if they were in two persons.

A common abbreviation of curia.

In old European law. A court. The palace, household, or retinue of a sovereign. A judicial tribunal or court held in the sovereign’s palace. A court of justice. The civil power, as

4 Inst. 50. The court of parliament is governed by its own laws.

Time runs against the slothful and those who neglect their rights. Bract, fols. 100&, 101.

The style in which writs and all judicial processes were made out during the great revolution, from the execution of King Charles I. till Oliver Cromwell was declared protector.

Protector of the royal granary. 2 Bl. Comm. 394.

A measure of time; a space In which the same revolutions begin again; a periodical space of time. Enc. Lond.

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.