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The command of the king’s letters to perform some act; as a charge to enter heir. Also a messenger’s execution, requiring a person to obey the order of the king’s letters; as

A league or agreement between two or more independent states whereby they unite for their mutual welfare and the furtherance of their common aims. The term may apply to a union so

One who, under the constitution and laws of the United States, or of a particular state, and by virtue of birth or naturalization within the jurisdiction, is a member of the political

The ratification by the archbishop of the election of a bishop by dean and chapter under the king’s letter missive prior to the investment and consecration of the bishop by the archbishop.

A civil action is a proceeding in a court of justice in which one party, known as the “plaintiff,” demands against another party, known as the “defendant,” the enforcement or protection of

Where the property of one of several parties interested in a vessel and cargo has been voluntarily sacrificed for the common safety, (as by throwing goods overboard to lighten the vessel,) such

This Is a term which covers several states of society; it is relative, and has not a fixed sense, but it implies an improved and progressive condition of the people, living under

An extraordinary assembly of the houses of lords and commons, without the assent or summons of the sovereign. It can only be justified ex necessitate rei, as the parliament which restored Charles

A claimant. A debt; anything claimed from another. A proclamation; an accusation. Du Cange.

The transfer of the title of land from one person or class of persons to another. Klein v. McNamara, 54 Miss. 105; Alexander v. State, 28 Tex. App. 180, 12 S. W.

A person employed in a public office, or as an officer of a court, whose duty is to keep records or accounts.

A crime which entails in- famv upon one who has committed it. Butler v. Wentworth, 84 Me. 25. 24 Atl. 456, 17 L. R. A. 764. The term “infamous”

A person employed by a merchant, or in a mercantile establishment, as a salesman, book-keeper, accountant, amanuensis, etc., invested with more or less authority in the administration of some branch or department

Such as is carried on between individuals within the same state, or between different parts of the same state. Lehigh Val. Ii. Co. v. Pennsylvania. 145 U. S. 192. 12 Sup. Ct.

Commerce between states or nations entirely foreign to each other. Louisville & N. R. Co. v. Tennessee R. R. Com’n (C. C.) 19 Fed. 701

As occasionally used in statutes prescribing the qualifications of public officers, trustees, etc., this term means soundness of moral principle and character, as shown by one person dealing with others in the

Between her arms. Fleta, lib. 1, c. 35,

Letters of inter- communing were letters from the Scotch privy council passing (on their act) in the king’s name, charging the lieges not to reset, supply, or intercommune with the persons thereby

Intervening; interposed during the progress of a suit, proceeding, business, etc., or between its beginning and end.

A set or series of written questions drawn up for the purpose of being propounded to a party in equity, a garnishee, or a witness whose testimony is taken on deposition; a