Showing to a magistrate that one has just cause to be afraid of another in consequence of his menaces, in order to have him bound over to keep the peace.

Comprehensive; including in its scope many persons or objects; as a sweeping objection.

In old English law. A freeman or freeholder within the forest.

In forest law. A court holden before the verderors, as judges, by the steward of the sweinmote, thrice in every year, the siceins or freeholders within the forest composing the jury. Its

To enlarge or increase. In an action of tort, circumstances of aggravation may “swell” the damages.

A term colloquially applied to a witness who is unduly zealous or partial for the side which calls him, and who betrays his bias by his extreme readiness to answer questions or

Cheating and defrauding grossly with deliberate artifice. Wyatt v. Ayres, 2 Port. (Ala.) 157; Forrest v. Hanson, 9 Fed. Cas. 456; Thorpe v. State, 40 Tex. Cr. R. 346, 50 S. W.

So much land as one’s plow can till iu a year; a hide of laud. Cowell.

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.