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The examination before a competent tribunal, according to the law of the land, of the facts or law put in issue in a cause, for the purpose of determining such issue. A

Sittings of the English court of appeal and of the high court of justice in London and Middlesex, commencing on the Tuesday after Whitsun week, and terminating on tlie 8th of August.

In English law. A customary duty or toll for weighing wool; so called because it was weighed by a common trona, or beam. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 12.

In English law. A barrister who has a preaudience in the exchequer, and also one who has a particular place in court, is so called. Brown.

Lat. Baseness; infamy; immorality; turpitude. Tuta est custodia quae sibimet cre- ditur. Ilob. 340. That guardianship is secure which is intrusted to itself alone.

Brit. A tribe or family branching or issuing out of another. Cowell.

A synopsis or condensed statement, bringing together numerous items or details so as to be comprehended in a single view; as genealogical tables, exhibiting the names and relationships of all the persons

Lat. Having personally touched the holy Gospel. Cro. Eliz. 105.The description of a corporal oath.

Tax or toll gatherers; mentioned by Chaucer.

In old English law. A heap; a liay-mow, or hay-stack. Focnum in tassis, hay In stacks. Reg. Orig. 90.

In old English law. A royalty or privilege granted, by royal charter, to a lord of a manor, for the having, restraining, and judging of bondmen and villeins, with their children, goods,

An Anglo-Saxon charter of land. 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, c. 1, p. 10.

is the relation of a tenant to the land which he holds. Hence it signifies (1) the estate of a tenant, as in the expressions “joint tenancy,” “tenancy in common ;” (2)

The number of ten men, which number, in the time of the Saxons, was called a “decennary;” and ten decennaries made what was called a “hundred.” Also a duty or tribute paid

Terms of the law. The name of a lexicon of the law French words and other technicalities of legal language in old times.

He who is literally in the occupation or possession of the land, as distinguished from the owner out of possession. But, in a more technical sense, the person who is seised of

Lat. In the civil law. A testament; a will, or last will. In old English law. A testament or will; a disposition of property made in con- templation of death. Bract, fol.

In old English law. The Rochester text. An ancient manuscript containing many of the Saxon laws, and the rights, customs, tenures, etc., of the church of Rochester, drawn up by Ernulph, bishop

In surveying, and in descriptions of land by courses and distances, this word, preceding each course given, imports that the following course is continuous with the one before it Flagg v. Mason,

By the laws of St. Edward the Confessor, if any man lay a third night in an inn, he was called a “third-night-awn-hinde,” and his host was answerable for him if he