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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

In the Roman law. The iEdilitian Edict; an edict providing remedies for frauds in sales, the execution of which belonged to the curule aediles. Dig. 21, 1. See Cod. 4, 58.

An officer whose principal duties are to supply an army with provisions and stores.

Lat. Being sick or indisposed. A term used in some of the older reports. “Holt wgroto.” 11 Mod. 179.

A portion of a legislative body, comprising one or more members, who are charged with the duty of examining some matter specially referred to them by the house, or of deliberating upon

The person who, in a contract of indemnity, is to be Indemnified or protected by the other.

This is not evidence properly so called, but the mere sug- gestion of evidence proper, which may possibly be procured if the suggestion is follow- ed up. Brown.

Forthwith; without dela;

In ecclcsiastical law. A dispensation granted by the pope to do or obtain something contrary to the common law. In Spanish law. The condonation or remission of the punishment imposed on a

Lat. In the civil law. A child under the age of seven years; so called “quasi impos fanili,” (as not having the faculty of speech.) Cod. Theodos, 8. 18, 8. Infans non