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In the civil law. Against the will, (testament.) Dig. 37. 4.

In Spanish law. A counter-writing; counter-letter. A docu- ? ment executed at the same time with an act J of sale or other instrument, and operating by way of defeasance or otherwise

To supply a share or proportional part of money or property towards the prosecution of a common enterprise or the discharge of a joint obligation. Park v. Missionary Soc., 02 Vt. 19,

In English law. Cognizance or jurisdiction. Conusance of pleas. Termes de la Ley.

Religious men united in a convent or religious house. Cowell

In the law of homicide. Calmness or tranquillity; the undisturbed possession of one’s faculties and reason; the absence of violent passion, fury, or uncontrollable excitement.

The name of a writ that lay where a man could not get a copy of a libel at the hands of a spiritual judge, to have the same delivered to him.

In presence of a person not a judge. When a suit is brought and determined in a court which has no jurisdiction in the matter, then it is said to be coram

The oath administered to a sovereign at the ceremony of crowning or investing him with the insignia of royalty, in acknowledgment of his right to govern the kingdom, in which he swears

In reference to municipal corporations, and especially to their powers of taxation, a “corporate purpose” is one which shall promote the general prosperity and the welfare of the municipality, (Wetherell v. De-

Discipline; chastisement administered by a master or other person in authority to one who has committed an offense, for the purpose of curing his faults or bringing him into proper subjection.

In Spanish law. A term corresponding to the res communes of the Roman law, and descriptive of such things as are open to the equal and common enjoyment of all persons and

A cot or hut Blount

In American law. The lower or more numerous branch of the legislative assembly of a city, in English law. The councillors of the city of London. The parliament, also, was anciently called

A secret writing, either before a notary or under a private seal, which destroys, invalidates, or alters a public one.

Count, or reckon. In old practice. A direction formerly given by the clerk of a court to the crier, after a jury was sworn, to number them; and which Blackstone says was

The supreme judicial tribunal of France, having appellate jurisdiction otdy. For an account of its composition and powers, see Jones, French Bar, 22; Guyot, Itepert. Univ.

was a court not of record, held before the lord high constable and earl marshal of England. It had jurisdiction, both civil and criminal, in deeds of arms and war, armorial bearings,

In American law. A court of criminal jurisdiction in the state of Pennsylvania. It is held at the same time with the court of quarter sessions, as a general rule, and by

A person who willingly and knowingly received an outlaw, and cherished or concealed him; for which offense he underwent the same punishment as the outlaw himself. Bract 1286,- Spelman.