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Lat But inquire; examine this further. A remark indicating, briefly, that the particular statement or rule laid down is doubted or challenged in respect to its correctness. SED VIDE 1067 SEISED IN

A female superior.

Evidence which either serves or disserves the party is so called. This species of evidence is either self-serving (which is not in general receivable) or self-disserving, which is Invariably receivable, as being

The judges of the court of session in Scotland are called “Senators of the College of Justice.”

Lat. In the civil law. (1) Sense; import; as distinguished from mere words. (2) The deliberate expression of one’s will or intention. (3) The sentence of a judge or court. Sentcntia a

Small allowances of meal, or manufactured victual, made to the servants at a mill where corn was ground, by tenure, in Scotland. Wharton.

in feudal law, was where a tenant, besides payment of a certain rent, found one or more workmen for his lord’s service. Tomlins. Servanda est consuetudo loci ubi cansa agitur. The custom

In old English practice. Servants or messengers of the marshal of the king’s bench, sent out with bills or writs to summon persons to that court. Now more commonly called “tipstaves.” Cowell.

agreeing with his minutes and his recollection. See Railroad Co. v. Cone, 37 Kan. 507, 15 Pac. 409; In re Prout’s Estate (Sur.) 11 N. Y. Supp. 100.

Lat. The sixth (book) of the decretals; the sext, or sixth decretal. So called because appended, in the body of the canon law, to the five books of the decretals of Gregory

A right of sheep-walk is the same thing as a fold-course, (g. v.) Elton, Commons, 44.

This term, in common maritime and commercial usage, means “placed on board of a vessel for the purchaser or consignee, to be transported at his risk.” Fisher v. Minot, 10 Gray (Mass.)

To show cause against a rule nisi, an order, decree, execution, etc., is to appear as directed, and present to the court such reasons and considerations as one has to offer why

Lat Thus ; so ; in such manner. Sic enim debere quem meliorem agrum suum facere ne vicini deteriorem faciat. Every one ought so to improve his land as not to injure

A calendar or list of causes, containing those set down specially for hearing, trial, or argument.

A charge or instruction given by the court to the jury, upon some particular point or question involved in the ease, and usually in response to counsel’s request for such instruction

Authority to administer upon some few particular effects of a decedent as opposed to authority to administer his whole estate. In re Senate Bill, 12 Colo. 193, 21 Pac. 4S2; Clemens v.

A “condition” Is to be distinguished from a limitation, In that I he latter may be to or for the benefit of a stranger, who may then take advantage of its determination,

Lat. In civil and old English law. To make or build a house; to erect a building. Dig. 45, 1, 75, 7.

A contract under seal ; a specialty; as distinguished from one merely oral or in writing not sealed. But in. common usage this term is often used to denote an express or