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The seat of a judge; the place where he administers justice; a judicial court: the bench of judges. See Foster v. Worcester, 10 Pick. (Mass.) 81. In Roman law. An elevated seat

In old European law. An extraordinary kind of composition for an offense, consisting of three times nine, or twenty-seven times the single geld or pay- ment. Spelman.

Money formerly collected and raised in London, and the several counties of England, towards providing harness and maintenance for the militia, etc.

In Spanish law. Tort Las Partidas, pt 7, tit 6, 1. 5.

Lat. In the civil law. An action of tutelage; an action which lay for a ward or pupil, on the termination of tutelage, against the tutor or guardian, to compel au account

Arbitrary or despotic government; the severe and autocratic exercise of sovereign power, either vested constitutionally in one ruler, or usurped by him by breaking down the division and distribution of governmental powers.

Lat In the civil law. A table or tablet; a thin sheet of wood, which, when covered with wax, was used for writing.

the word “general,” in such case, implying that there is no other restriction upon the descent of the estate than that it must go in the male line. So an estate in

A keeping account by tallies. Cowell.

Lat A common bull; because he was free to all the tenants within such a manor, liberty, etc.

Within the meaning of an exemption law, this term means work done by a team as a substantial part of a man’s business; as in farming, staging, express carrying, drawing of freight,

A tax of two shillings upon every plow-land, a decennary.

This phrase signifies things which are fixed to the freehold of the demised premises, but which the tenant may detach and take away, provided he does so in season. Wall v. Hinds,

A term used in pleading to denote that an exact copy is set out. 1 Chit. Crim. I/aw, 235. By the tenor of a deed, or other instrument in writing, is signified

Societies, in England, where the members commence their monthly contributions on a particular day, and continue to pay them until the realization of shares to a given amount for each member, by

A writ for a clerk to recover his lands, goods, and chattels, formerly seized, after he had cleared himself of the felony of which he was accused, and delivered to his ordinary

One who has made a will; one who dies leaving a will.

A certain part of the king’s land or property, of which the ruler or governor was called “thane.” Cowell.

In Saxon law. A husbandman or inferior tenant; an under-thane. Cowell.

An uuder-constable. Cowell.