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Commercial paper is said to be transferred, or sales alleged to have been fraudulent may be shown to have been made, “in the course of business,” or “in the usual and ordinary

The oldest court in the state of New York. Its jurisdiction is unlimited as respects amount, but restricted to the city and county of New York as respects locality. It has also

A species of private courts of a limited though extensive jurisdiction, which, upon the thorough reduction of that principality and the settling of its polity in the reign of Henry VIII., were

In practice. The name of a common-law form of action ex contractu, which lies for the recovery of damages for breach of a covenant, or contract under seal. Stickney v. Stickney, 21

A secret conspiracy or agree- . ment between two or more persons to injure J or defraud another. Mix v. Muzzy, 28 Conn. 191; Anderson v. Oscamp (Ind. App.) 35 N. E.

In international law. The instruments which authorize and establish a public minister in his character with the state or prince to whom they are addressed. If the state or prince receive the

Twilight In the law of burglary, this term means the presence of sufficient light to discern the face of a man : such light as exists immediately before the rising of the

The crime of burning, which included not only the modem crime of arson, but also the burning of a man, a beast, or other chattel. Britt. c. 0: Crabb, Eng. Law, 308.

In old Scotch law. A weregild. A composition, satisfaction, or assythnient for the slaughter of a man.

The demesne lands of the crown.

An auctioneer. Carr v. Gooch, 1 Wash. (Va.) 337, (262.) One who calls out aloud; one who publishes or proclaims. See CRIER.

Whose right it is to institute, his right it Is to abrogate. Broom, Max. 878, note.

A field on which a crop of wheat is growing is a cultivated field, although not a stroke of labor may have been done in it since the seed was put in

An abbreviation for Code of Civil Procedure; also for court of common pleas.

In Spanish law. An official statement of the quantity and value of real property in spy district, made for the purpose of justly apportioning the taxes payable on such property. 12 Pet

A term used vulgarly, and occasionally in judicial proceedings and law reports, to designate a jail or prison, partic- uarly a town or city jail or lock-up. Supposed to be a corruption

In the civil law. Calumny, malice, or ill design; a false accusation ; a malicious prosecution. Lanning v. Christy, 30 Ohio St. 115, 27 Am. Rep. 431. In the old common law.

A chamberlain; a keeper of the public money; a treasurer. Also a bailiff or receiver.

In old records. A trial by hot iron, formerly used in England. Whish- aw.

In English practice. A judicial writ touching a plea of lands or tenements, divided into cape magnum, or the grand cape, which lay before appearance to summon the tenant to answer the