An inn of court. See INNS OF COURT.

As used in various compound legal terms, this word generally means extraordinary,that is, exceeding the common or ordinary measure or standard, in respectto physical size, or importance, dignity, etc. See Gulf, etc.,

or “The Body of Laws of the Province of Pennsylvania andTerritories thereunto belonging, Past at an Assembly held at Chester, alias Upland, the7th day of the tenth month, called ‘December,’ 10S2.” This

Satisfaction for an offense committed or injury done. Cowell.

A colloquial expression to signify a time indefinitely remote, therebeing no such division of time known to the Greeks.

In English law. A board or court of justice held in tlie countinghouseof the king’s (or queen’s) household, and composed of the lord steward and inferiorofficers. It takes its name from the

The popular and almost exclusive name applied to all United Statestreasury issues. It is not applied to any other species of paper currency; and, when employediu testimony by way of description. Is

In forest law. The same as vert, (q. v.) Termes de la Ley.

In French law. Registrars, or clerks of the courts. They are officialsattached to the courts to assist the judges in their duties. They keep the minutes, writeout the judgments, orders, and other

The code or collection of constitutions made by the Roman jurist Gregorius. See CODEX GREGORIANUS.

The time from which the Gregorian calendar or computation dates; i. e., from the year 15S2.

In Spanish law. A guild; an association of workmen, artificers, or merchantsfollowing the same trade or business; designed to protect and further theinterests of their craft.

Lat The bosom or breast; hence, derivatively, safeguard or protection. InEnglish law, an estate which is in abeyance is said to be in grcmio legis; that is, in theprotection or keeping of

The statute 10 Geo. III. c. 16, by which the jurisdiction over parliamentaryelection petitions was transferred from the whole house of commons toselect committees Repealed by 9 Geo. IV. c. 22, $

In English law. A customary fine due from a copyhold tenant onthe death of the lord. 1 Strange, 654; 1 Crabb, Real Prop. p. 615,

A marriage celebrated at Gretna, iu Dumfries, (bordering on the county of Cumberland,)iu Scotland. By the law of Scotland a valid marriage may be contracted by consentalone, without any other formality. When

In old records. The sea shore, sand, or beach. 2 Mon. Angl. 625; Cowell.

Aggrieved. 3 East, 22.

In Saxon law. Peace; protection.

In old English law. A merchant or trader who engrossed all vendiblemerchandise; an engrosser. St 37 Edw. III. c. 5. See ENGROSSER.