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In old English law. Clerk of the market. 2 Inst. 543.

in the principal registry of the probate division of the English high court, discharge the duty of preparing and passing the grants of probate and letters of administration, under the supervision of

The procedure in deliberative assemblies whereby debate is closed. Introduced in the English parliament in the session of 1882

In English law. A body of officers and men raised and equipped by the commissioners of the admiralty for the defense of the coasts of the realm, and for the more ready

A code compiled by the emperor Theodosius the younger, A. D. 438. being a methodical collection, in sixteen books, of all the imperial constitutions then in force. It was the only body

In English law. A writ to a justice of the common pleas, or other, who has power to take a fine, who, having taken the fine, defers to certify it, commanding him

The trial which was anciently used for the common sort of people, who, having a cord tied about them under their arms, were cast into a river ; if they sank to

An oflicer of the United States, appointed for the term of four years. Act May 15, 1820.

A deceitful agreement or compact between two or more persons, for the one party to bring an action against the other for some evil purpose, as to defraud a third party of

A forcible encounter between two or more persons; a battle; a duel. Trial by battle.

In old English law. A countess; an earl’s wife.

In ecclesiastical law. Such as are written by one bishop to another on behalf of any of the clergy, or others of his diocese traveling thither, that they may be received among

In ecclcsiastical law. One who is sent or delegated to execute some office or duty as the representative of his superior; an officer of the bishop, who exercises spiritual jurisdiction in distant

In practice. The warrant or mittimus by which a court or magistrate directs an officer to take a person to prison. The act of sending a persou to prison by means of

A species of common by vicinage prevailing in the counties of Norfolk, Lincoln, and Yorkshire, in England; being the right of persons occupying lands lying together in the same common field to

In old deeds. The right of common. See COMMON.

In the Civil law. An action which lies for those who have property in common, to procure a division. It lies where parties hold land in common but not In partnership. Calvin.

In criminal law. Change; substitution. The substitution of one punishment for another, after conviction of the party subject to it. The change of a punishment from a greater to a less; as

Imagining or contriving, or plotting. In Englisli law, “compassing the king’s death” is treason. 4 HI. Comm. 70.

Duly qualified; answering all requirements; adequate; suitable; sufficient; capable ; legally fit. Levee Dist. v. Jamison, 176 Mo. 557, 75 S. W. 679