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A court held by the lord of the manor of Gravesend for the better management of barges and boats plying on the river Thames between Gravesend and Windsor, and also at Gravesend

Running; now in transit; whatever is at present in course of passage; as “the current month.” When applied to money, it means “lawful;” current money is equivalent to lawful money. Wharton v.

The practice of the court is the law of the court.

A system of customs or rules relative to bills of exchange, partnership, and other mercantile matters, and which, under the name of the “lex mercatoria,” or “law-merchant,” has been ingrafted into and

In English ecclesiastical law. Keeper of the spiritualities. lie who exercises the spiritual jurisdiction of a diocese during the vacancy of the see. Cowell.

In Saxon law. A church

Dig. 50, 17, 154. When both parties are in fault the plaintiff must always fail,and the cause of the person in possession be preferred.

Intended to cure (that is, to obviate the ordinary legal effects or consequences of) defects, errors, omissions, or irregularities. Applied particularly to statutes, a “curative act” being a retrospective law passed in

In old English law. The lord’s court, house,or hall, where all the tenants met at the time of keeping court. Cowell.

An open, running, or unsettled account between two parties. Tucker v. Quimby, 37 Iowa. l’J; Franklin v. Camp, 1 N. J. Law, 190; Wilson v. Calvert, 18 Ala. 274.

The estate to which by common law a man is entitled, on the death of his wife, in the lands or tenements of which she was seised iu possession in fee-simple or

A custom of intestacy in the province of York similar to that of London. Abolished by 19 & 20 Vict. c. 94.

In English ecclesiastical law. The person to whom a vacant see or abbey was given by the king, as supreme lord. His office was, as steward of the goods and profits, to

A breaking into a church, Blount

With satchel and purse. A phrase in old Scotch law.

In the civil law. A person who is appointed to take care of anything for another. A guardian. One appointed to take care of the state of a minor above a certain

A phrase used in old Scotch records to show that the court was opened in due and lawful manner.

Ordinary, regular, and continuing expenditures for the maintenance of property, the carrying on of an ollioe, municipal government, etc. Sheldon v. Purdy, 17 Wash. 135, 49 Pac. 228; State v. Board of

The name of King Edward the Confessor’s sword. It is said that the point of it was broken, as an emblem of mercy. (Mat. Par. in Hen. III.) Wharton.

According to custom or usage; founded on, or growing out of, or dependent on, a custom, (q. v.)