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In the civil law. A contract by which one who bas a claim difficult to recover agrees with another to give a part, for the purpose of obtaining his services to recover

L. Fr. Of his or her life; of ills own life; as distinguished from pur autre vie, for another’s life. Litt.

Of testaments. The title of the fifth part of the Digests or Pandects; comprising the twenty-eighth to the thirty-sixth books, both inclusive.

Betters which the postal department has not been able to deliver to the persons for whom they were intended. They are sent to the “dead-letter office,” where they are opened, and returned

the presiding judge of the Court of Arches, lie is also an assistant judge in the court of aiiiuiraltv. 1 Kent, Comm. 371; 3 Steph. Comm. 727.

A sum charged as due or owing. The term is used in book-keeping to denote the charging of a person or an account with all that is supplied to or paid out

A deanery. Spelman. A company of ten persons. Calvin.

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,