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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-

In criminal law. The protection of one’s person or property against some injury attempted by another. The right of such protection. An excuse for the use of force in resisting an attack

In American law. The name of the upper chamber, or less numerous branch, of the congress of the United States. Also the style of a similar body in the legislatures of several

In Spanish law. Dominion or property.

In old English practice. A writ which issued where a sheriff had returned nihil, upon a summoneas ail warrantizandum, and after an alias and pluries had been issued. So called because tbe

A test for insanity by means of the breaking up of the red corpuscles of the blood of the suspected person on the injection of the venom of cobras or other serpents;

Lat. In feudal and old English law. The duty of obedience and per- formance which a tenant was bound to render to his lord, by reason of his fee. Spel- man.

In Scotch law. The gruuter of a tack or lease. 1 Forb. Inst pt. 2, p. 153.