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Guardian for the suit. In English law, the corresponding phrase is “guardian ad litem.”

In old English law. The great court; one of the ancient names of parliament.

This phrase means gold or silver, or something equivalent thereto, and convertible at pleasure into coined money. Bull v. Bank. 123 U. S. 105, 8 Sup. Ct. 02. 31 L. Ed. 97;

The enclosed space of ground and buildings immediately surrounding a dwelling-house. In its most comprehensive and proper legal signification, it includes all that space of ground and buildings thereon which is usually

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

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.

are such as accrue from the same injury, or from the repetition of similar acts, between two specified periods of time.

See STOCK

In the civil law. A guardian or trustee appointed to take care of property in certain cases; as for the benefit of creditors. Dig. 42, 7. In Scot’s law. The term is

In old English law. The mayor’s court. Calth. 144.

The currency of the country : whatever is intended to and does actually circulate as currency; every species of coin or currency. Miller v. McKinney. 5 Lea (Tenn.) 90. In this phrase

In old English law. Court lands. Cowell. See COUBT LANDS.

In administrative law. The house or office where commodities are entered for importation or exportation; where the duties, bounties, or drawbacks payable or receivable upon such importation or exportation are paid or

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

The solar day, measured by the diurnal revolution of the earth, and denoting the interval of time which elapses between the successive transits of the sun over the same hour circle, so

When the question is as to the gain of two persons, the cause of him who is in possession is the better. Dig. 50, 17, 126.

One which can be committed only by a repetition of acts of the same kind but committed on different days. The offense of being a “common seller” of intoxicating liquors is an

Surveyors of the highways.