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In ecclesiastical law. Tenths, or tithes. The tenth part of the annual prof- It of each living, payable formerly to the pope. There were several valuations made of these livings at different
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In ecclesiastical law. Tenths, or tithes. The tenth part of the annual prof- It of each living, payable formerly to the pope. There were several valuations made of these livings at different
Explanatory; designed to fix or elucidate what before was uncertain or doubtful.
In Scotch law. A proceeding giving immediate execution to the creditor; similar to a warrant of attorney to confess judgment.
Gratian’s decree, or deeretum. A collection of ecclesiastical law in three books or parts, made in the year 1151, by Gratian, a Benedictine monk of Bologna, being the oldest as well as
A kind of gun. 1 How. State Tr. 1124, 1125.
To cause damage or injurious loss to a person or put him in a position where he must sustain it. A surety is “damnified” when a judgment has been obtained against him.
A steward either of a king or lord. Spelman.
It is given to the more worthy. 2 Vent 268.
Of (about) acquiring the ownership of things. Dig. 41, 1; Bract, lib. 2, fol. 86.
Concerning the property of religious persons curried away. The title of the statute 35 Edward I. passed to check the abuses of clerical possessions, one of which was the waste they suffered
Of his own goods. The technical name of a judgment against an administrator or executor to be satisfied from his own property, and not from the estate of the deceased, as in
By daylight. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 76,
Writ for taking a contumacious person. A writ which issues out of the English court of chancery, in cases where a person has been pronounced by an ecclesiastical court to be contumacious,
Of divers rules of the ancient law. A celebrated title of the Digests, and the last in that collection. It consists of two hundred and eleven rules or maxims. Dig. 50, 17.
A writ to deliver an excommunicated person, who has made satisfaction to the ehuicb, from prison. 3 Bl. Comm. 102.
L. Fr. Of necessity; of pure necessity. See FINE FORCE.
Of increase; in addition. Costs de incremento, or costs of increase, are the costs adjudged by the court in civil actions, in addition to the damages and nominal costs found by the
Writ of free passage. A species of quod permittat. Reg. Orig. 155.
Where the death of a human being is concerned, Lin a matter of life and death,] no delay is [considered] long. Co. Litt. 134.
A writ or action for damages caused by a pound-breach. (7. r.) It has long been obsolete. Co. Litt 476; 3 Bl. Comm. 146.