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Lat. A plaintiff; the plaintiff.

IIow much damnified? The name of an issue directed by a court of equity to be tried in a court of law, to ascertain the amount of compensation to be allowed for

In Roman law. That portion of a testator’s estate which he was required by law to leave to a child whom he had adopted and afterwards emancipated or unjustly disinherited, being one-

at. In the civil law. A species of action allowed to a child who had been unjustly disinherited, to set aside the will, founded on tbe presumption of law, in such QUERENS

A cavilling or verbal objection. A slight difficulty raised without necessity or propriety.

Consisting of five parts; divided into five parts.

etc. A writ which lay for a clerk, who, by reason of some land he had, was made, or was about to be made, bailiff, beadle, reeve, or some such ofiicer, to

When a committee, board of directors, meeting of shareholders, legisla- tive or other body of persons cannot act unless a certain number at least of them are present, that number is called

Offerings formerly made, on Mid-Lent Sunday, to the mother church.

The plaintiff shall take nothing by his bill. A form of judgment for the defendant Latch, 133.

As much as he deserved. In pleading. The common count in an action of assumpsit for work and labor, founded on an implied assumpsit or promise on the part of the defendant

In Roman law. That portion of a testator’s estate which, by the Falcidian law. was required to be left to the heir, amounting to at least one-fourth. See Mackeld. Rom. Law,

cases, that the parent was not In his right mind. Calvin.; 2 Kent, Comm. 327; Bell.

Living; alive. “Quick chattels must be put in pound-overt that the owner may give them sustenance; dead need not.” Finch, Law, b. 2, c. 6.

Fifteenths ; also the fifteenth day after a festival. 13 Edw. I. See Cowell.

That he account Judgment quod computet is a preliminary or interlocutory judgment given in the action of account-render (also iu the case of cred- itors’ bills against au executor or administrator,) directing

In old Scotch law. A twentieth part of the movable estate of a person dying, which was due to the bishop of the diocese within which the person resided. Bell.

The third volume of the year books of the reign of Edward III. So called because beginning with the fortieth year of that sovereign’s reign. Crabb, Eng. Law, 327.

L. Lat. The plaintiff did not find a pledge. A return formerly made by a sheriff to a writ requiring him to take security of the plaintiff to prosecute his claim. Cowell.

As much as they were worth. In pleading. The common count in an action of assumpsit for goods sold and delivered, founded on an implied assumpsit or promise, on the part of