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Lat. An offering to the priest for the burial of a dead body. Sequamur vestigia patrum nostrorum. Jenk. Cent. Let us follow the footsteps of our fathers.

In old English law. Oath; an oath. Sermo index animi. 5 Coke, 118. Speech is an index of the mind. Sermo relatns ad personam intelllgi debet de conditions personae. Language which is

another, for the acquittal of such services. Reg. Jud. 27.

To bring forward or allege, as something relied upon or deemed sufficient; to propose or interpose, by way of defense, explanation, or justification; as, to set up the statute of limitations, t.

Lat. In Boman law. A subdivision of the as, containing two uncice; the proportion of two-twelfths, or one-sixth. 2 Bl. Comm. 462, note.

Small plots of pasture, in England, often in the middle of the waste of a manor, of which the soil may or may not be in the lord, but the pasture is

tion less than a dollar. Webster. See Madison Ins. Co. v. Forsythe, 2 Ind. 4S3.

A process, authorized in some of the states, to be issued against an absconding, fraudulent, or nonresident debtor, which is returnable within a less number of days than an ordinary writ of

Lat In the civil law. If any one. Formal words in the pnetorian edicts. The words “guis,” though masculine in form was held to include women. Dig. 50, 16, 1. SI quis

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,