SHEEP-SILVER
A service turned into money, which was paid in respect that an- ciently the tenants used to wash the lord’s sheep. Wharton.
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A service turned into money, which was paid in respect that an- ciently the tenants used to wash the lord’s sheep. Wharton.
In maritime law. To put on board a ship; to send by ship. To engage to serve on board a vessel as a seaman.
An old custom of the city of Exeter. A mode of foreclosing the right of a tenant by the chief lord of the fee, in cases of non-payment of rent. Cowell.
Lat. If he acknowledge. In old practice. A writ which lay for a creditor against his debtor for money numbered (pecunia numerata) or counted; that is, a specific sum of money, which
Lat. In Boman law. Cutpurses. 4 Steph. Comm. 125.
In old European law. A judge or justice; literally, a man of causes, or having charge or supervision of causes. One who administered justice aud decided causes in the mallum, or public
In old English law. A headpiece ; a steel cap or morion. Cowell.
Lat. In the civil law. That part of a law by which a penalty was ordained against those who should violate it. Inst. 2, 1, 10.
In old records. The city of Salisbury in England. Spelman.
The laws of the West Saxons. Cowell.
Usury. Cowell.
Lat In old English law. A cutting. kScissio auricularutn, cropping of the ears. An old punishment. Fleta, lib. 1, c. 38,
An obsolete law society, also called “Serjeants’ Place,” opposite to St. Andrew’s Church, Holborn, London.
Authenticated by a seal; executed by the affixing of a seal. Also fastened up in any manner so as to be closed against inspection of the contents.
dom, both foreign and domestic. There are five principal secretaries,
Lat. But it is not allowed. A phrase used in the old reports, to signify that the court disagreed with the arguments of counsel.
in its general signification, means “lord,” but iu law it is particularly applied to the lord of a fee or of a manor; and the fee, dominions, or manor of a seig-
See FELO DE SE; SUICIDE.
In Roman law. A member of the senatus. In old English law. A member of the royal council; a king’s councillor. In American law. One who is a member of a senate,
Lat. Sense, meaning, signification. Malo sensu, in an evil or derogatory sense, ilitiori sensu, in a milder, less severe, or less stringent sense. Sensu honesto, In an honest sense; to interpret words