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The law of things. The law regulating the rights and powers of persons over things; how property is acquired, enjoyed, and transferred. Jus respicit aequitatem. Law regards equity. Co. Litt. 246; Broom,

Rank or office of a justice.

A kind of defensive coat-armor worn by horsemen in war; not made of solid iron, but of many plates fastened together. Some tenants were bound by their tenure to find it upon

In old English law. Small money.

In old English law. Jewels. This term was formerly more properly applied to those ornaments which women, al though married, call their own. When these jocalia are not suitable to her degree,

A workman hired by tlie day, or other given time. Hart v. Ald- ridge, 1 Cowp. 5G; Butler v. Clark, 46 Ga. 408.

Lat. In the civil law. Select or selected judiccs or judges; those who were used in criminal causes, and between whom and modern jurors many points of resemblance have been noticed. 3

In old English law. The soil where rushes grow. Co. Litt 5a; Cowell.

Lat By right; in right; by the law.

One member of a jury of matrons, (q. v.)

In the civil law. The right of sewerage or drainage. An easement consisting in the right of having a sewer, or of conducting surface water, through the house or over the ground

In old Roman law. A body of laws drawn up by Cneius Flavius, a clerk of Appius Claudius, from the materials to which he had access. It was a popularization of the

In Roman law. The right of Latium or of the Latins. The principal privilege of the Latins seems to have been the use of their own laws, and their not being subject

n the civil law. The right of postliminy; the right or claim of a person who had been restored to the possession of a thing, or to a former condition. to be

In Roman law. Written law. Inst. 1, 2, 3. All law that was actually committed to writing, whether it had originated by enactment or by custom, in contradistinction to such parts of

Proper to be examined in courts of justice.

A gold coin worth 24s., so called from James I., who was king when it was struck. Enc. Loud.

Yeomen retained by the sheriff to escort the judge of assize.

A little manor or farm. Cowell.

In English practice. The name of a writ (now obsolete) which might be sued out where a former writ had abated without the plaintiff’s fault. The length of time allowed for taking