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In old English law. A chamber, room, or apartment; a judge’s chamber ; a treasury; a chest or coffer. Also, a stipend payable from vassal to lord; an annuity.

A chancellor; a scrivener, or notary. A Janitor, or one who stood at the door of the court and was accustomed to carry out the commands of the judges.

A lump, or that which is added above measure; also a piece of anything, as “cantel of bread,” or the like. Blount.

(You take the outlaw.) In English practice. A writ which lies against a person who has been outlawed in an action, by which the sheriff is commanded to take him, and keep

A head-land. A piece of land lying at the head of other land.

In old records. A cap. Cappa honoris, the cap of honor. One of the solemnities or ceremonies of creating an earl or marquis.

A dead head; dead ; obsolete.

In French law. Lack of assets ; insolvency. A prods-verbal de carence is a document setting out that the huissier attended to issue execution upon a judgment, but found nothing upon which

In English law. A license by the lord mayor of London to keep a cart.

In old English law. The charter of the forest. More commonly called “Charta de Forcsta,” {q. v.)

1. A general term for an action, cause, suit, or controversy, at law or in equity; a question contested before a court of justice; an aggregate of facts which furnishes occasion for

(Fr. cour de causation.) The highest court in France; so termed from possessing the power to quash (causer) the decrees of inferior courts. It is a court of appeal in criminal as

In old English law. Rents paid by those that dwelt within the precincts of a castle, towards the maintenance of such as watched and warded it.

Lo opuesto a la “buena fe”, por lo general lo que implica o que involucra fraude real o presunto, o un plan para inducir a error o engaño a otro, o una

In Scotch law. A creditor whose debt is secured on all or several distinct parts of the debtor’s property. Bell.

A form of action which anciently lay against a party who boasted or gave out that he or she was married to the plaintiff, whereby a common reputation of their marriage might

In the civil and French law. Security given for the performance of any thing; bail; a bond or undertaking by way of surety. Also the person who becomes a surety. In Scotch

Let the traveler beware. This phrase has been used as a concise expression of the duty of a traveler on the highway to use due care to detect and avoid CAVEATOR 180

A place of burial, differing from a churchyard by its locality and incidents,

A dead rent, like that which is called “mortmain.” Blount; Cowell.