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A composition of a dramatic kind, set to music and sung, accompanied with musical instruments, and enriched with appropriate costumes, scenery, etc. The house in which operas are represented is termed an

In English ecclesiastical law. A customary prerogative of au archbishop, when a bishop is consecrated by him, to name a clerk or chaplain of his own to be provided for by such

In old English law. The right of administering oaths and adjudging trials by ordeal within a precinct or liberty. Cowell.

Lat. By word of mouth; orally. Pleading was anciently carried on ore tciius, at the bar of the court 3 Bl. Comm. 203.

Lat. In old pleading. Shows to you. Formal words with which a demandant began his count. Fleta, lib. 5, c. 38,

To put out; to eject; to remove or deprive; to deprive of the possession or enjoyment of an estate or franchise.

In English law. A process by which a defendant or person in contempt on a civil or criminal process was declared an outlaw. If for treason or felony, it amounted to conviction

Proved guilty or convicted. Blount

The person in whom is vested the ownership, dominion, or title of property; proprietor. Garver v. Hawkeye Ins. Co., 09 Iowa, 202, 28 N. W. 555; Turner v. Cross, 83 Tex. 218,

Lat In Roman law. The legal relation existing between two certain persons whereby one (the creditor) is authorized to demand of the other (the debtor) a certain performance which has a money

Ratifying aud confirming.

To be charged or loaded with payments or occasional penalties.

Complete property, as opposed to feudal tenure. The transposition of the syllables of “odhal” makes it “allodh” and hence, according’ to Blackstone, arises the word “allod” or “allodial,” (q. v.) “Allodh” is

The court or Jurisdiction of which an official Is head.

In Spanish law. A good man; a substantial person. Las Partidas, pt 5, tit. 13, 1. 38. Omissio eorum quae tacite insunt nihil operator. The omission of those things which are tacitly

L. Fr. Accused. Du Cange.

Such tenants, under feudal tenures, as held some little portions of laud by the duty of performing bodily labor and servile works for their lord.

In old England practice. That species of original writ, otherwise called a “praecipe,” which was framed in the alternative, commauding the defend OPUS 857 ORDER ant to do the thing required, or

In Spanish law. An order emanating from the sovereign, and differing from a cedula only in form and in the mode of its promulgation. Schm. Civil Law, Introd. 03, note

In Saxon law. The price or value of a beast. A payment for a beast The payment or forfeiture of a beast. A penalty for taking away cattle. Spelman.