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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

In criminal law and torts. A beating of a person, not accompanied by circumstances of aggravation, or not resulting in grievous bodily injury.

See SECURED.

At common law, a bond without penalty; a bond for the payment of a definite sum of money to a named obligee on demand or on a day certain. Burnside v. Wand,

One whose claim or demand accrued or came into existence after a given fact or transaction, such as the recording of a deed or mortgage or the execution of a voluntary conveyance.

A deed whereby the obligor obliges himself, his heirs, executors, and administrators, to pay a certain sum of money to the obligee at a day named, without terms of defeasance.

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

Uncompensated, unpaid for, unavenged. From the participle of exclusion, a,

A contract subordinate to another contract, made or intended to be made between the contracting parties, on one part, or some of them, and a stranger. 1 II. Bl. 37, 45. Where

Equity is the correction of that wherein the law, by reason of its generality, is deficient Plowd. 375.

The name given to that class of conveyances which presuppose some other conveyance precedent, and only serve to enlarge, confirm, alter, restrain, restore, or transfer the interest granted by such original conveyance.

The special allowance of a writ (particularly a writ of error) which is required in some particular cases.