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Certain officers in the English court of chancery, whose duties were to keep the records, make copies of pleadings, etc. Their offices were abolished by St. 5 & 6 Vict c. 103.

A tribute or payment in money paid to the bishop or archdeacon by the inferior clergy, at the Easter visitation.

In ecclesiastical law. These were originally persons whom, in the ancient episcopal synods, the bishops were wont to summon out of each parish to give informa- tion of the disorders of the

bishop’s certificate to the court of chancery in order to obtain the writ of excommunica- tion ; but, where the words “icrit of sitjnifi- cavit” are used, the meaning is the same

Lat Together and at one time.

Lat. Site; position; location; the place where a thing is, considered, for example, with reference to jurisdiction over it or the right or power to tax it See Boyd v. Selma, 90

In English law. An expression frequently used in coal-mine leases and agreements for the same. It signifies a fixed or dead,

Span. Above; over; upon. Ruis v. Chambers, 15 Tex. 5SG, 592.

A privilege, liberty, or franchise. Cowell.

Single; individual; separate; the opposite of joint; as a sole tenant. Comprising only one person; the opposite of aggregate; as a sole corporation. Unmarried ; as a feme sole. See the nouns.

Lat. To pay; to comply with one’s engagement; to do what one has undertaken to do; to release one’s self from obligation, as by payment of a debt. Calvin.

Lat. In the civil law. A drawing of lots. Sortitio judicum was the process of selecting a number of judges, for a criminal trial, by drawing lots.

In Scotch law. Terms used to express the form by which the number of cattle brought upon a common by those having a servitude of pasturage may be justly proportioned to the

A sample; a part of something intended to exhibit the kind and quality of the whole. People v. Freeman, 1 Idaho, 322.

Lat. A spoiler or destroyer. It is a maxim of law, bearing chiefly on evidence, but also upon the value generally of the thing destroyed, that everything most to his disadvantage is

Lat. In the civil law. A bastard; the offspring of promiscuous cohabitation.

In Saxon law. The prafcctus stabuli, now master of the horse. Sometimes one who has a stall in a fair or market.

Settled; closed. An account stated means an account settled, and at an end. Pull. Acc’ts, 33. “In order to constitute an account stated, there must be a state- meut of some certain

of statutes which have been revised, collected, arranged in order, and re-enacted as a whole; this is the legal title of the collections of compiled laws of several of the states and

A French measure of solidity, used in measuring wood. It Is a cubic meter.