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In English law. Limit; a limited number. Used as descriptive of a species of common. See COMMON SANS NOMBRE.

The act by which the unpaid vendor of goods stops their progress and resumes possession of them, while they are in course of transit from him to the purchaser, and not yet

See ESTRAY.

The words “with strong hand” imply a degree of criminal force, whereas the words vi et armis (“with force and arms”) are mere formal words in the action of trespass, and the

An under-agent; a substituted ageut; an agent appointed by one who is himself au ageut 2 Kent, Comm. 633.

In the civil law. The answers of the prince to questions which had been put to him respecting some obscure or doubtful point of law.

Essence; the material or essential part of a thing, as distinguished from “form.” See State v. Iiurgdoerfer, 107 Mo. 1, 17 S. W. 040, 14 L, It. A. 846: Hugo v. Miller,

In the common-law definition of manslaughter, this phrase means an access of rage or anger, suddenly arising from a contemporary provocation. It means that the provocation must arise at the time of

Lat. Of its own kind or class; i. e., the only one ot its own kind; peculiar.

A payment to the lords of the wood on the Wealds of Kent, who used to visit those places in summer, when their under-tenants were bound to prepare little summer-houses for their

In old Scotch law. To have a balance of account due to one; to have one’s expenses exceed the receipts.

cuit court of the United States in cities or towns of over 20,000 inhabitants, upon the written application of two citizens, or in any county or parish of any congressional district upon

Fr. On; upon; over. In the titles of real actions “sur” was used to point out what the writ was founded upon. Thus, a real action brought by the owner of a

In pleading. The plaintiff’s answer of fact to the defendant’s rebutter. Steph. PI. 59.

The south door of a church, where canonical purgation was performed, and plaints, etc., were heard and determined. Wharton.

Cheating and defrauding grossly with deliberate artifice. Wyatt v. Ayres, 2 Port. (Ala.) 157; Forrest v. Hanson, 9 Fed. Cas. 456; Thorpe v. State, 40 Tex. Cr. R. 346, 50 S. W.

One chosen by a college, municipality, etc., to defend its cause. Calvin.

The same court is sometimes said to have different sides; that Is, different provinces or fields of jurisdiction. Thus, an admiralty court may have an “instance side,” distinct from its powers as

A seal commonly used for the sign manual of the sovereign. Wharton. The signet is also used for the purpose of civil justice in Scotland. Bell.

ate church, or any other ecclesiastical benefice, as distinguished from a cure of souls. It may therefore be held with any parochial cure, without coming under the prohibitions against pluralities. Wharton.