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Conditionally; provl-sionally; in anticipation of future need. A phrase applied to proceedings which are tak-en at parte or provisionally, and are allow-ed to Btand as tv ell done for the present, bub which- may be subject to ^future exception or
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of the bench. A term for-merly applied in England to the justices of the court of common pleas, or “bench,” as it was originally styled
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writ for taking cattle in wlth-ernam. A writ which lay where the sheriff returned to a plurics writ of replevin that the cattle or goods, etc., were eloined. etc.; by which he was commanded to take the cattle of the defendant in withernam, (or re-prlsal,) aud detain them until he could re-plevy the other cattle. Reg. orig. 82; Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 73, E. F. See witueknam
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For hearing and determining; to hear and determine. The name of a writ, or rather commission granted to certain justices to hear aud determine cases of heinous misde-meanor. trespass, riotous breach of the peace, etc. Reg. orig. 323, et acq.; Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 110 B. See oyeb and Tekminkk.
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(Lat. For proroguing assise.) A writ to put off an assise, issuing to the justices, where oue of the parties is engaged in the service of the king
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Concerning the property of religious persons carried away. The title of the statute 35 Edward I. passed to check the abuses of clerical possessions, oue of which was the waste they suffered by being drained into foreign countries. 2 Reeve. Eng. Law. 157; 2 lost. 580.
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A writ which lay for the arrest of one who had taken the
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An old writ which lay to seize goods in the hands of a party during the pendency of a suit, to prevent their be-ing made away with. Reg. orig. 126b
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(Lat of arbitration had.) A writ formerly used when an action was brought for a cause which had been settled by arbitration, wats. Arb. 256
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For a yearly rent. A writ to recover an annuity, no mat-ter how payable, in goods or money. 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, 258
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of the bis-sextile or leap year. The title of a statute passed in the twenty-first year of Henry III., which in fact, however, is nothing more than a sort of writ or direction to the justices of the bench. Instructing them how the extraor-dlnary day in the leap year was to be reckoned in cases where persons had a day to appear at the distance of a year, as on the essoin de malo lecti, and the like. It was thereby directed that the additional day should, together with that which went be-fore, be reckoned only as one, and so, of course, within the preceding year. 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 266
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of more abundant or especial grace. Townsh. PL 18
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TU. Lat Concerning bribery. A phrase descriptlve of the subject-matter of several of tbe Roman laws; as the Lex Aufldia, the Lex Pompcia. the Lex Tullia, and others. See Ambitus
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of high and low. A phrase anciently used to denote the absolute submission of all differences to arbitfa-tion. CowelL
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About gamesters. The name of a title in the Pandects. Dig. 11, 5
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For prov-ing age. A writ which formerly lay to sum-mon a jury in order to determine the age of the heir of a tenant in capite who claimed his estate as heing of full age. Fitzh. Nat Brev. 257; Reg. orig. 294
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In Roman law. one of the lnnomlnate contracts, and, in effect, a sale of land or goods at a price fixed, (aesti-mato,) and guarantied by some third party, who undertook to find a purchaser
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In equity. De jure stricto, nihil possum vendicare, de aquitate tumen, nullo mo’do hoc obtinet; in strict law, I can claim nothing, bnt in equity this by no means obtains. Fleta, lib. 8, c. 2, t 10
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L. Lat with or by the advice of our council. A phrase used in tbe old writs of summons to parliament Crabb, Eng. Law, 240
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of admeas-urement Thus, de admensuratione dotis was a writ for the admeasurement of dower, and de admensuratione pastura was a writ for the admeasurement of pasture
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of (about) acquiring the ownership of things. Dig. 41, 1; Bract, lib. 2, fol. 8b.
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