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Twelve sacks of coals, each holding three bushels, weighing about a ton and a half. In Wales they reckon 12 barrels or CHALLENGE 187 CHAMBER BUSINESS pitchers a ton or chaldron, and

(Lat. Campus Mar- tii.) The field or assembly of March. The national assembly of the Franks, held in the month of March, in the open air.

Properly speaking, the removal of a suit begun in one county or district to another county or district for trial, though the term is also sometimes applied to the removal of a

Under the former system of equity practice, this phrase was used to characterize the usual method of taking an account before a master. After the plaintiff had presented his “charge,” a written

A deed-poll.

In old European law. A keeper of records or public instruments ; a chartulary; a registrar. Spelman

A draft or order upon a bank or banking-house, purporting to be drawn upon a deposit of funds, for the payment at all events of a certain sum of money to a

subject to the direction of his superior officer, with the superintendence of the administration of the business of the ollice

In old English law. A road, way, highway. It is either the king’s highway (rhiminus regis) or a private way. The first is that over which the subjects of the realm, and

A local thing; a thing annexed to a place, as a mill. Kitchin, fol. 18; Cowell ; Blount.

A tribute anciently paid to the bishop or archbishop for visiting churches. Du Fresne.

Any violation of the privileges of a church.

One who is skilled or versed in the civil law. A doctor, professor, or student of the civil law. Also a private citizen, as distinguished from such as belong to the army

The order or rank according to which persons or things are arranged or assorted. Also a group of persons or things, taken collectively, having certain qualities in common, and constituting a unit

In old English law. A club or mace; tenure per scrjeantiam claviw, by the serjeanty of the club or mace. Cowell.

The whole body of clergymen or ministers of religion. Also an abbreviation for “benefit of clergy.” See BENEFIT.

In English law. An assistant to the clerk of assise. His duties are in the crown court on circuit

A person who employs or retains an attorney, or counsellor, to appear for him in courts, advise, assist, and defend him in legal proceedings, and to act for him in any legal

A voluntary, unincorporated association of persons for purposes of a social, literary, or political nature, or the like. A club Is not a partnership. 2 Mees. & W. 172. The word “club”

To place the yards of a ship at an angle with the deck. Pub. St Mass. 1882, p. 1288. LI CODE