In old English law. Persons who, by mutual oaths, covenant to share in each other’s fortunes.

Certain officers in the English court of chancery, whose duties were to keep the records, make copies of pleadings, etc. Their offices were abolished by St. 5 & 6 Vict c. 103.

A Saxon form of greeting, meaning peace and safety.

A head-note; a note prefixed to the rei>ort of an adjudged case, con- taining an epitome or brief statement of the rulings of the court upon the point or points decided in

In logic. The full logical form of a single argument. It consists of three propositions, (two premises and the conclusion.) and these contain three terms, of which the two occurring in the

Lat In ecclesiastical law. Wood of any kind which was kept on purpose to be cut, and which, being cut grew again from the stump or root Lynd. I’rov. 100; 4 Reeve,

The art or cunning rightly to form and make written instru- ments. It is either judicial or extrajudicial; the latter being wholly occupied with such instruments as concern matters not yet judicially

The constructive delivery of the subject-matter of a sale, where it is cumbersome or inaccessible, by the actual delivery of some article which is conventionally accepted as the symbol or representative of

Lat. A mortuary, or soul-scot.

Formerly an inn of chancery.

In the civil law. A bilateral or reciprocal contract, in which the parties expressly enter into mutual engagements, each binding himself to the other. Poth. Obi. no. 9.

To cut short, or pronounce things so as not to be understood. Cowell.

In the civil law. An advocate or patron; a burgess or recorder; an agent or attorney who acts for a corporation or university; an actor or procurator; an assignee. Wharton. See Minnesota

A university committee. A combination of persons or firms united for the purpose of enterprises too large for individuals to undertake; or a group of financiers who buy up the shares of

One chosen by a college, municipality, etc., to defend its cause. Calvin.

The name given by the canonists to deeds of which both parts were written on the same piece of parchment, with some word or letters of the alphabet written between them, through

A meeting or assembly of ecclesiastical persons concerning religion; being the same thing, in Greek, as convocation in Latin. There are four kinds: (1) A general or universal synod or council, where

A tribute or payment in money paid to the bishop or archdeacon by the inferior clergy, at the Easter visitation.

L. Lat. Syn- ods-men (corrupted into sidesmen) were the urban and rural deans, now the church-wardens.

In medical jurisprudence. A loathsome venereal disease