This Is the official designation of the president or chairman of certain legislative bodies, particularly of the house of representatives in the congress of the United States, of one or both branches

See DEMURRER.

See ORDER.

A method of compounding an offense, allowed in the English practice, where the court permits a defendant convicted of a misdemeanor to speak with the prosecutor before judgment is pronounced; if the

A writing sealed and delivered, containing some agreement. A writing sealed and delivered, which is given as a security for the payment of a debt, in which such debt is particularly specified.

1. Coin of the precious metals, of a certain weight and fineness, and bearing the stamp of the government, denoting its value as currency. Trebilcock v. Wilson, 12 Wall. 005, 20 L.

Lat. In the civil law. Form; figure; fashion or shape. A form or shape given to materials. A particular thing; as distinguished from “genus.”

Having a certain form or designation ; observing a certain form ; par- ticular; precise. As to specific “Denial,” “Devise,” “Legacy,” and “Performance,” see those titles.

Gilbert v. U. S.. 1 Ct. CI. 34; State v. Kendall, 15 Neb. 202, 18 N. W. S5; Wilson v. Coon (C. C.) 0 Fed. 014. In military law. Tbe clear and

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

In commerce. The act or practice of buying lands, goods, etc.. in expectation of a rise of price and of selling them at an advance, as distinguished from a regular trade, in

An execution which, by the direction of the judge at nisi prius. issues forthwith, or on some early day fixed upon by the judge for that purpose after the trial of the

In criminal law. As secured by constitutional guaranties, a speedy trial means a trial conducted according to fixed rules, regulations, and proceedings of law, free from vexatious, capricious, and oppressive delays manufactured

The formation of words by letters; orthography. Incorrect spelling does not vitiate a written instrument If the intention clearly appears.

A person who by excessive drinking, gaming, idleness, or de- bauchery of any kind shall so spend, waste, or lessen his estate as to expose himself or his family to want or

That of which there is hope. Thus a debt which one may hope to recover may be called “sperate,” in opposition to “desperate.” See 1 Chit. Pr. 520.

Lat. The hope of recovery or recapture; the chance of retaking property captured at sea, which prevents the captors from acquiring complete ownership of the property until they have definitely precluded it

The sealer of the royal writs.

The addition given, in legal proceedings, and in conveyancing, to a wo- man who never has been married.

Those profits which a bishop receives in his ecclesiastical character, as the dues arising from his ordaining and instituting priests, and such like, in contradistinction to those profits which he acquires in