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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.

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

In French law. A person charged with supervising the administration of the affairs of an emancipated minor, of giving him advice, and assisting him in the important acts of such administration. Du-

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,

This term is usually applied to those taxes which are payable upon goods and merchandise imported or exported. Story, Const.

A knowing or skillful counsellor

The title of the empress of Russia.

With the appurtenances. Bract, fol. 736.

In the civil law. The power or duty of managing the property of him who, either on account of infancy or some defect of mind or body, cannot manage his own affairs.

The county court, (q. v.)

Coined money and such bank-notes or other paper money as are authorized by law aud do in fact circulate from hand to hand as the medium of exchange. Griswold v. Hepburn, 2

An inferior officer of the papal court.

Property is in the custody of the law when it has been lawfully taken by authority of legal process, and remains in the possession of a public officer (as, a sheriff) or

The statute 16 & 17 Vict. c. 107. which has been frequently amended. See 2 Steph. Comm. 503.

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.