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In Hindu law. Corrupted from Kachari. A court; a hall; an office; the place where any public business is transacted.

The title of the emperor of Russia, first assumed by Basil, the son of Basilides, under whom the Russian power began to appear, about 1740.

Lat. With the will annexed. A term applied to administration granted where a testator makes an incomplete will, without naming any executors, or where he names incapable persons, or where the executors

The office of a curator. Curatorship differs from tutorship, (q. v.,) in this; that the latter is instituted for the protection of property in the first place, and, secondly, of the person;

The palace court. It was abolished by 12 & 13 Vict, c. 101.

The current value of imported commodities is their common market price at the place of exportation, without reference to the price actually paid by the importer. Tappan v. U. S

A garden; a space about a house; a house, or manor; a court, or palace; a court of justice; a nobleman’s residence. Spelman.

Tenants holding by custom of the manor.

A knowing or skillful counsellor

The title of the empress of Russia.

Additional; heaping up; Increasing; forming an aggregate. The word signifies that two things are to be added together, instead of one being a repetition or in substitution of the other. People v.

A woman who has been appointed to the office of curator; a female guardian. Cross’ Curatrlx v. Cross’ Legatees, 4 Giat. (Va.) 257.

A court held by the sheriff of Chester, in a place there called the “Pendice” or “Pentice;” probably it was so called from being originally held under a pent-house, or open shed

Such as are paid periodically, or from time to time as the services are rendered or the work is performed ; more particularly, wages for the current period, hence not including such

A term used in Hiiulostan for the discount or allowance made in the exchange of rupees, in contradistinction to ball a, which is the sum deducted. Enc. Loud.

Custom shall be taken [is to be construed] strictly. Jenk. Cent. 83.

One who steals by the method of cutting purses; a common practice when men wore their purses at their girdles, as was once the custom. Wharton.

The title of the eldest son of the czar and czarina.

See STOCK

The rectification or rendering nugatory of a defect in the pleadings by the rendition of a verdict; the court will presume, after a verdict, that the particular thing omitted or defectively stated