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(Gneco- Lat.) In the civil law. A place for keeping writings or records. Dig. 48, 19, 9, 6.
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(Gneco- Lat.) In the civil law. A place for keeping writings or records. Dig. 48, 19, 9, 6.
Rogation week, so called anciently in the inns of court and chancery.
Satisfaction for an offense committed or injury done. Cowell.
Aggrieved. 3 East, 22.
In mining law. A contract between two parties by which one undertakesto furnish the necessary provisions, tools, and other supplies, and the other toprospect for and locate mineral lands and stake out
In Spanish law. A right of way for narrow carts. White, New Recop. 1. 2, c. 0,
A place of execution. Jacob.
Such a measure of care, prudence, and assiduity as persons of unusual prudence and discretion exercise in regard to anyand all of their own affairs, or such as persons of ordinary prudence
writ of. A writ formerly issued in the real action of quare impcdit, when noappearance had been entered after the attachment; it commanded the sheriff todistrain the defendant’s lands and chattels in
The gross earnings of a business or company are the total receipts before deducting expenditures. Net earnings are the excess of the gross earnings over the expenditures defrayed in producing them, and
(1) One at which the officers to be elected are such as belong to the general government,
Another name for a depositum or naked bailment, which is made only for the benefit of the bailor and is not a source of profit to the bailee. Foster v. Essex Bank,
In English law. The name of an instrument used for the transfer of a ship while she is at sea. An expression which is understood to refer to the instrument whereby a
A judicial writ in the old real actions, which issued for the demandant where the tenant, after being duly summoned, neglected to appear on the return of the writ, or to cast
A term used in the old ecclesiastical law to denote a period of forty days.
Lat. A stag or deer
A species of challenge for cause, being an objection to a particular juror, to the effect that the juror is disqualified from serving in any case. Pen. Code Cal.
A charge or instruction by the court to the jury upon the case as a whole, or upon its general features or characteristics.
Charity, in its widest sense, denotes all the good affections men ought to bear towards each other; in a restricted and common sense, relief of the poor. Morice v.
Gratuitous contracts are those of which the object is the benefit of the person with whom it is made, without any profit or advantage received or promised as a consideration for it.
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