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In English law. Assessments by commissioners of sewers.

A writ that anciently lay against tenants by knight’s service to serve in the wars, or send sufficient persons, or pay a certain sum. Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 83.

A search-warrant is an order in writing, issued by a justice or other magistrate, in the name of the state, directed to a sheriff, constable, or other officer, commanding him to search

In text-books, codes, statutes, and other juridical writings, the smallest distinct and numbered subdivisions are commonly called “sections,” sometimes “arti- cles,” and occasionally “paragraphs.”

Lat The see being filled. A phrase used when a bishop’s see is not vacant.

In old English law. Seised; possessed.

Fr. It seems; it would appear. This expression is often used in the reports to preface a statement by the court upon a point of law which is not directly decided, when

Lat. In the civil law. Decisions of the senate. Private acts concerning particular persons merely.

Lat. In old conveyancing. Severally. A word which made a several covenant 5 Coke, 23a.

In English ecclesiastical practice. A process in the ua- ture of a levari facias, commanding the bish- _op to euter into the rectory and parish fl church, and to take and sequester

Lat In old European law. Slaves; persons over whom their masters had absolute dominion. In old English law. Bondmen; servile teuants. Cowell.

Lat. In old English law. A sitting; a session. Sessio parliamenti, the sitting of parliament. Cowell.

Admitting of severance or separation, capable of being divided; capable of being severed from other things to which it was joined, and yet maintaining a complete and independent existence.

In the strict sense of the term, a “shareholder” is a person who has agreed to become a member of a corporation or company, and with respect to whom all the required

In American law. The chief executive and administrative officer of a county, being chosen by popular election SHERIFF 1083

In English law. A county. So called because every county or shire is divided and parted by certain metes and bounds from another. Co. Litt. 50a.

Lat. If he knows anything; if he is not altogether devoid of reason. Si assuetis mederi possis, nova non sunt tentanda. If you can be relieved by accustomed remedies, new ones should

Disease; malady; any morbid condition of the body (including insanity) which, for the time being, hinders or prevents the organs from normally discharging their several functions. L. R. 8 Q. B. 295.

An abbreviation for “southern district”

Lat. In Roman law. An oath, as being a very sacred thing; more particularly, the oath taken by soldiers to be true to their general and their country. Alnsw. Lex. In one