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An account of time, exhibiting the days of the week and month, the seasons, etc. More commonly spelled “calendar.”

The jagged end of a stick of wood made by the cutting. Pub. St. Mass. 1S82, p. 1292.

Relatives by blood. “Kindred of the whole blood, preferred to kindred of the half blood.” 4 Kent, Comm. 404, notes. See Butler v. Elytou Land Co., 84 Ala. 384, 4 South. 675;

A court which used to be held twice a year by the bishop of Hereford, in England.

In the civil law. A calendar; a book of accounts, memorandum- book, or debt-book; a book in which accounts were kept of moneys loaned out on interest. Dig. 32, 04. So called

A customary cart-way; also a commutation for a customary carriage- duty. Cowell.

The supreme court of common law in England, being so called be- cause the king used formerly to sit there in person, the style of the court being “coram ipso rege.” It

An ancient guild or society formed by King Edgar.

In Saxon and old English law A man; a serving man. Buskarl, a seaman. Huskarl, a house servant. Spelman.

Fortified or embattled. Co. Litt. 5a.

Barristers or ser- jeants who have been called within the bar and selected to be the king’s counsel. They answer iu some measure to the advoeati fusel, or advocates of the revenue,

To assign to a bidder at an auction by a knock or blow of the hammer. Property is said to be “knocked down” when the auctioneer, by the fall of his hammer,