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An ancient writ, lying for the sovereign, against any of his subjects, to stay them from going out of the kingdom to foreign parts; the ground whereof is that every man is

An injury for which a master may have an action on the case.

of restitution pronounces upon the act as having been not a valid act of capture, but an act of temporary seizure only. Appleton v. Crown- inshield, 3 Mass. 443. In the law

Lat. In maritime law. Half-shipwreck, as where goods are cast overboard in a storm; also where a ship has been so much damaged that her repair costs more than her worth. Wharton.

In old records. Widowhood. Cowell.

Lat In Roman law. An inclosure; tin inclosed place where the people voted;’ otherwise called “ovile.” In old English law. An inclosure or close. Cowell.

Important; weighty; moment- ‘ ous, and not trifling; as in the phrases “serious bodily harm,” “serious personal injury,” etc. Lawlor v. People, 74 111. 231; Union Mut. L. Ins. Co. v. Wilkinson,

In old English practice. Serjeant at law.

In mercantile law. Foreign bills are usually drawn in duplicate or triplicate, the several parts being called respectively “first of exchange,” “second of exchange,” etc., and these parts together constitute a “set

The distinction between male and female; or the property or character by which an animal is male or female. Webster.

Soldiers. Cowell.

Changing; varying; passing from one person to another by substitution. “Shifting the burden of proof” is transferring it from one party to the other, or from one side of the case to

A cause which is not likely to occupy n great portion of the time of the court, and which may be entered on the list of “short causes.” upon the application of

grammatical, but In a popular and ordinary, sense. 2 Kent, Comm. 555.

Irresponsible persons, or men of no property, who make a practice of going bail for any one who will pay them a fee therefor.

As opposed to the common counts, in pleading, a special count is a statement of the actual facts of the particular case, or a count in which the plaintiff’s claim is set

A deputy sheriff, appointed at the request of a party to a suit, for the special purpose of serving or executing some writ or process in such suit.

In English law. The ecclesiastical courts, or courts Christian. See 3 Bl. Comm. 01

One born of parents before marriage, the parents afterwards intermarrying. By the civil and Scotch law he would be then legitimated.

Persons who are related to each other by descending from the same great-grandfather or great- grandmother. The children of one’s first cousins are his second cousins. These are sometimes called “‘first cousins