ESTER IN JUDGMENT
L. Fr. To appear before a tribunal either as plaintiff ordefendant. Kelharu.
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L. Fr. To appear before a tribunal either as plaintiff ordefendant. Kelharu.
And it is allowed.
Lat. In going and returning. Applied to vessels. 3 C. Rob.Adm. 141.
Out of abundance; abundantly; superfluously ; more tban sufficient Calvin.
From or out of loan. A term applied in the old law of England to aright of action arising out of a loan, (commodatum.) Glanv. lib. 10, c. 13; 1 Reeve, Eng.Law,
Out of grace; as a matter of grace, favor, or indulgence; gratuitous. Aterm applied to anything accorded as a favor; as distinguished from that which may bedemanded ex debito, as a matter
From office; by virtue or the office; without any other warrant orappointment than that resulting from the holding of a particular oflice. Powers may beexercised by an officer which are not specifically
From, by, or under a will. The opposite of ab intestato, (‘/
In English law. The title of a viceroy, governor general, ambassador, or commander in chief.In America. The title is sometimes given to the chief executive of a state or of the nation.
In ecclesiastical law. A writ issuing out of chancery, founded on a bishop’s certificate thatthe defendant had been excommunicated, and requiring the sheriff to arrest and imprisonhim, returnable to the king’s bench.
The name given to him who puts criminals to death, according to their sentence; a hangman.
A soldier; a vassal. Spelman.
Demand, want, need, imperativeness.
A writ of the same nature as that lastabove described, issued by the guardian of the crown’s ward, and addressed to thesheriffs or stewards of the court, forbidding them to distrain him,
Sax. The metropolis; the chief city. Obsolete.
The East India Company was originally established forprosecuting the trade between England and India, which they acquired a right to carryon exclusively. Since the middle of the last century, however, the company’s
The body of jurisprudence administered by theecclesiastical courts of England; derived, in large measure, from the canon and civil law.As now restricted, it applies mainly to the affairs, and the doctrine, discipline,
The annual edict or system of rules promulgated by a Roman praetorimmediately upon assuming his office, setting forth the principles by which he wouldbe guided in determining causes during his term of
Owelty, (q. v.) Co. Litt. 169a.
At common law, this was the name of a mixed action (springing from’he earlier personal action of ejectione firmce) which lay for the recovery of the possession of land, and for damages
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