A weight or measure fixed and prescribed by law, to which all other weights and measures are required to correspond. STANNARIES 1105 STATE

A district whicb includes all parts of Devon and Cornwall where some tin work is situate and in actual operation. The tin miners of the stannaries have certain peculiar customs and privileges.

In English law. A mart or market. A place where the buying and selling of wool, lead, leather, and other articles were put under certain terms. 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, 393. In

In maritime law. The right-hand side of a vessel when the observer faces forward. “Starboard tack,” the course of vessel when she has the wind on her starboard bow. Burrows v. Gower

was a court which originally had jurisdiction in cases where the ordinary course of justice was so much obstructed by one party, through writs, com- bination of maintenance, or overawing influence that

Lat. To stand by decided cases; to uphold precedents; to maintain former adjudications. 1 Kent, Comm. 477.

Lat. To apf.ear before a tribunal, either as ulaintiff or defendant. BL.LAW DICT.(2D ED.)

The old term for contract or obligation among the Jews, being a corruption from the Hebrew word “shctar,” a covenant. By an ordinance of Richard I., no starr was allowed to be

A body politic, or society of men united together for the purpose of promoting their mutual safety and advantage, by the joint efforts of their combined strength. Cooley, Const. Lim. 1. One

the state and others partaking in some degree of that character, from the ninth year of Hen. II. to the first of Geo. IV.

Formerly, when a master in chancery was directed by the court of chancery to make an inquiry or investigation into any matter arising out of a suit, and which could not conveniently

In English lunacy practice, when a person has been found a lunatic, the uext step is to submit to the master a scheme called a “state of facts and proposal,” showing what

A narrative of the facts upon which the plaintiff relies, sub- stituted for a more formal declaration, in suits in the inferior courts. The phrase is used in New Jersey.

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

In a general sense, an allegation; a declaration of matters of fact. The term has come to be used of a variety of formal narratives of facts, required by law in various

A freeholder and farmer In Cumberland. Wharton.

Lat. Forthwith; immediately. In old English law, this term meant either “at once,” or “within a legal time,” i. e., such time as permitted the legal and regular performance of the act

Exhibiting, or listing in their order, the items which make up an account.

That part of a bill in chancery in which the plaintiff states the facts of his case; it is distin- guished from the charging part of the bill and from the prayer.

In the civil law. A place where ships may ride in safety. Dig. 50, 16. 59.