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Gross neglect; absence of ordinary care and diligence. Hun v. Cary, 82 N. Y. 72, 37 Am. Rep. 546.

A person to whom a debt Is owing by another person, called the “debtor.” Mohr v. Elevator Co., 40 Minn. 343, 41 N. W. 1074; Woolverton v. Taylor Co., 43 111. App.

In maritime law. A list of the crew of a vessel; one of a ship’s papers. This instrument is required by act of congress, and sometimes by treaties. Rev. St. U. S.

That which pertains to or is connected with the law of crimes, or the administration of penal justice, or which relates to or has the character of crime. Charleston v. Beller, 45

The products of the harvest in corn or grain. Emblements. Insurance Co. v. Deliaven (Pa.) 5 Atl. 65; Goodrich v. Stevens. 5 Lans. (N. Y.) 230.

In old Scotch law. Coroner ; a coroner. “Crowner’s quest,” a coroner’s inquest.

He who has the right of giving has also the right of selling and granting. Dig. 50, 17, 163.

Lat A term of the civil law, meaning fault, neglect, or negligence. There are three degrees of culpa,

A bargain by which money is loaned, at an extortionate or extravagant rate, to an heir or any one who has an estate in reversion or expectancy, to be repaid on the

In Spanish law. An allotment of land acquired by conquest, to a horse soldier. It was a strip one hundred feet wide by two hundred feet deep. The term has been sometimes

In the Roman law. A cognomen in the Gens Julia, which was assumed by the successors of Julius. Tayl. Civil Law, 31.

A call of the names of all the members of a legislative body, made by the clerk in pursuance of a resolution requiring the attendance of members. The names of absentees being

A champertor.

To obliterate, strike, or cross out; to destroy the effect of an instrument by defacing, obliterating, expunging, or erasing it. In equity. Courts of equity frequently cancel instruments which have answered the

One versed and skilled in the canon law; a professor of ecclesiastical law.

A writ of execution issuable in England against a debtor to the crown, which commands the sheriff to “take” or arrest the body, and “cause to be extended” the lands and goods

Chief justice of all England. The title of the presiding justice in the court of aula regis. 3 151. Comm. 38; 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 48.

In French law. A collection and code of the laws and ordinances promulgated by the kings of the Merovingian and Carlovingian dynasties. Any orderly and systematic collection or code of laws. In

The beginning of the Lent fast, i. e., Ash Wednesday.

In ecclesiastical law. a dignitary of the court of Rome, next in rank to the pope.