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In old English law. Common pleas or actions; those between one subject and another, as distinguished from pleas of the crown.

Signifies the conversion of tithes into a fixed payment in money.

Spiritual affinity, contracted by sponsorship in baptism

That which the very nature of the thing to be proven requires, as the production of a writing where its contents are the subject of inquiry. 1 Greenl. Ev.

This arises in English ecclesiastical law, when an agreement is made between the owner of lands and the incumbent of a benefice, with the consent of the ordinary and the patron, that

Officers of the court of chancery; their offices were abolished by 5 & 6 Vict. c. 103.

The term “concealed” is not synonymous with “lying in wait.” If a person conceals himself for the purpose of shooting another unawares, he is lying in wait; but a person may, while

In French law. The formality to which intending litigants are subjected in cases brought before the juge de paix. The judge convenes the parties and endeavors to reconcile them. Should he not

The harmony of the discordant canons. A collection of ecclesiastical constitutions made by Gratian, an Italian monk, A. D. 1151; more commonly known by the name of “Decretum Oratiani.” Concordia parvse res

In practice. The damages which the party failing in an action is adjudged or condemned to pay; sometimes simply called the “condemnation.” As used in an appeal-bond, this phrase means the damages

In English practice. Money paid to a witness who has been subpoenaed on a trial, sufficient to defray the reasonable expenses of going to, staying at, and returning from the place of

A plea to an assignment of error, admitting the same. CONFESSO, BILL TAKEN PRO. In equity practice. An order which the court of chancery makes when the defendant does not file an

One whose property has been seized and sold under a confiscation act, e. g., for unpaid taxes. See Brent v. New Orleans, 41 La. Ann. 1098, 6 South. 793.

A civil-law expression, synonymous with “merger”.

In Scotch law. Joint

In old English and Scotch law. The first purchaser of an estate ; he who brought it into the family owning it. 2 Bl. Comm. 242, 243.

In French law. When a person has been subjected to an Interdiction on the ground of his insane extravagauce, but the interdiction is not absolute, but limited only, the court of first

In Scotch law. The payment of money into the hands of a third party, when the creditor refuses to accept of it. The person to whom the money is given is termed

The act or process of uniting two or more of them into one.

To appoint, constitute, establish, ordain, or undertake. Used principally in ancient powers of attorney, and now supplanted by the English word “constitute.”