Toll for carriage on horseback. Cowell. Simma caritas est facere justitiam singulis, et Omni tempore quando ne- cesse fuerit. The greatest charity is to do justice to every one, and at any

Immediate; peremptory ; off-hand; without a jury ; provisional; statutory.

A payment to the lords of the wood on the Wealds of Kent, who used to visit those places in summer, when their under-tenants were bound to prepare little summer-houses for their

on the trial of an action by a jury, is a recapitulation of the evidence adduced, in order to draw the attention of the jury to the salient points. The counsel for

In practice. To serve a summons ; to cite a defendant to appear in court to answer a suit which has been begun against him; to notify the defendant that an action

L. Lat. In old practice. A writ of summons; a writ by which a party was summoned to appear in court.

Petty officers, who cite and warn persons to appear in any court. Fleta, lib. 9.

L. Lat In old English practice. A summoning or summons; a writ by which a party was summoned to appear in court of which there were various kinds. Spelman. Summonitiones aut citationes

Officers who assisted in collecting the revenues by citing the defaulters therein into the court of exchequer.

Eat Strict right; extreme right The extremity or rigor of the law. Summnm jns, summa injuria; summa lex, summa crux. Extreme law (rigor of law) Is’ the greatest Injury; strict law is

See SOMPNOUB.

Laws made for the purpose of restraining luxury or extrav- agance, particularly against inordinate expenditures in the matter of apparel, food, furniture, etc.

The first day of the week is designated by this name; also as the “Lord’s Day,” and as the “Sabbath.”

Lat In his own name.

Lat At his own peril or risk.

Lat. In Roman law. Household furniture. Dig. 33, 10.

Lat. Upon; above; over.

Over-swearing. A term anciently used when a criminal endeavored to excuse himself by his own oath or the oath of one or two witnesses, and the crime objected against him was so

In old Scotch law. To have a balance of account due to one; to have one’s expenses exceed the receipts.

An agent of the owner of goods shipped as cargo on a vessel, who has charge of the cargo on board, sells the same to the best advantage in the foreign market,