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PORTEOTJS Definition & Legal Meaning

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In old Scotch practice. A roll or catalogue containing the names of in dicted persons, delivered by the justice-clerk to the coroner, to be attached and arrested by him. Otherwise called the “Porteous Roll.” Bell.

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