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A chequered cloth resembling a chess-board which covered the table in the exchequer, and on which, when certain of the king’s accounts were made up, the sums were marked and scored with

to become such. See Gordon Y. Cornes. 47 N. Y. 616; Board of Regents v. Painter, 102 Mo. 464. 14 S. W. 938, 10 L. R. A. 493.

See GBETNA GBEEN.

made by a tenant by knight-service in lieu of actual service. 2 Bl. Comm. 74. A pecuniary aid or tribute originally reserved by particular lords, instead or in lieu of personal service,

In international law. The right of search is the right on the part of ships of war to visit and search merchant vessels during war, in order to ascertain whether the ship

Suitors of court who, among the Saxons, gave their judgment or verdict in civil suits upon the matter of fact and law. 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 22.

Lat With settled purpose. 5 Mod. 291.

This is the strict technical expression used to describe the ownership in “an estate in fee-simple in possession in a corporeal hereditament.” The word “seised” is used to express the “seisin” or

One who sells anything; the party who transfers property in the contract of sale. The correlative is “buyer,” or “purchaser.” Though these terms are not inapplicable to the persons concerned in a

In Roman law. A decision or decree of the Roman senate, having the force of law, made without the concurrence of the people. These enact- ments began to take the place of

tiers, to the exclusion of the rest. In re Lowe, 11 Nat. P.ankr. Rep. 221, Fed. Cas. No. 8.564. The separate estate of a married woman is that which belongs to her.

Nin the custody of the court, until he purges himself of a contempt. In English ecclesiastical practice. To gather aud take care of the fruits and profits of a vacaut benefice, for

21 S. W. 907, 37 Am. St Rep. 374; Murray v. Dvviglit, 1G1 N. Y. 301, 55 N. E. 901, 48 L. R. A. 073; Ginter v. Shelton, 102 Va. 185, 45

Lat In the civil and old English law. A slave; a bondman. Inst. 1, 3, pr.; Bract fol. 46.

A person who, for the purpose of acquiring a pre-emption right, has gone upon the laud in question, and is actually resident there. See llume v. Gracy, 86 Tex. 671, 27 S.

As used in statutes and similar instruments, this word is generally imperative or mandatory; but it may be construed as merely permissive or directory, (as equivalent to “may,”) to carry out the

A court held before the lord warden of the Cinque Ports. A writ of error lay from the mayor and Jurats of each port to the lord warden in this court, and

ters and mariners; and the law relating to ship-brokers, ship-agents, pilots, etc.

A “pettifogging shyster” is an unscrupulous practitioner who disgraces his profession by doing mean work, and resorts to sharp practice to do it. Bailey v. Kalamazoo Pub. Co., 40 Mich. 251. See,

A little current of water, which is dry in summer; a water furrow or gutter. Cowell.