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Writ to continue an assise. Reg. Orig. 2176.

rom day to day. Bract fol. 2056.

A writ commanding the sheriff to arrest one who was excommunicated, and imprison him rill he should become reconciled to the iliurch. 3 Bl. Comm. 102. Smith v. Nelson, IS Vt. 511.

Of breach of faith or fidelity. 4 Reeve. Eng. Law. 90.

Of those who are to be put on assises. The title of a statute passed 21 Edw. I. defining the qualifications of jurors. Crabb, Eng. Daw, 167, 189; 2 Reeve, Eng. Law,

Writ of free fishery. A species of quod pennittat. Reg. Orig. 155.

Cro. Jac. 420. A prohibition lies not against a newly-erected mill.

Span. By word; by parol. White, New Reeop. b. 2, tit. 19, c. 3,

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