A writ by which one is called to justify a complaint of a trespass made to the king himself, before the king and his council. Reg. orlg. 124
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A Jail which used to be appropriated to the debtors and crimi-nals confined under process or by authority of the superior courts at westminster, the high court of admiralty, and also to per-sons imprisoned under the bankrupt law
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L. Lat. An old writ which lay where a rent-charge or other rent which was not rent service was granted by fine holding of the grantor. If the tenant would not attorn, then the grantee might have had this writ old Nat. Brev. 126
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A woman who possesses the soverelgnty and royal power in a country under a monarchical form of government The wife of a klng
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A fund created by a charter of Queen Anne, (con-firmed by St 2 Ann. c. 11,) for the augmenta-tion of poor livings, consisting of all the revenue of first fruits and tenths, which was vested in trustees forever. 1 Bl. Comm. 286
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L. Fr. whose estate. A term used in pleading, particularly in claiming prescrlptlon, by whlch it is alleged that the plalntlff and those former owners whose estate he has have lmmemorlally exer--clsed the right claimed. Thls was called “prescribing in a que estate.’’
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A wharf for the loading or un-loading of goods carried in ships. This word is sometimes spelled “key
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L. Fr. whlch is the same. A term used in actions of trespass, etc. See Quje est Eadbx
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In Roman law. Mag-tetrates who had the care and inspection of roads. Dig. 1, 2, 3, 30
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Let As lf; as it were; anal-ogous to. This term is used in legal phrase
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To overthrow; to abate; to an-nul; to make void. Spelman; 3 Bl. Comm. 303; Crawford v. Stewart, 38 Pa. 34; Hoi-land v. webster, 43 Fla,. 85^29 South. 625; Bosley v. Bruner, 2 Cushm. (Miss.) 462
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A system of courts in Kentucky possessing a limited orig-lnal jurisdictlon in clvll cases and appellate jurisdlction from justices of the peace
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In the Spanish and French west Indies, a quadroon, that is, a person one of whose parents was white and the other a mulatto. See Daniel v. Guy, 19 Ark. 131.
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In Enclisb law. A criminal court held before two or more justlces of the peace, (one of whom must be of the quorum,) in every county, once in every quarter of a year. 4 BL Comm. 271; 4 Steph. Comm. 335
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In English criminal law. The dlviding a criminal's body into quarters, after execution. A part of the punishment of high treason. 4 Bl. Comm. 93
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In Roman law. That portion of a testator’s estate whlch, by the Falcidian law, was required to be left to the heir, amounting to at least one-fourth. See Mackeld. Rom. Law, S 771
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The fourth part of any-thlng. especlally of a year. Also a length of four inches. In England, a measure of corn, generally reckoned at eight bushels, though subject to local variations. See Hospltal St. Cross v. Lord Howard De walden, 6 Term, 343. In Amerlcan land law, a quarter sec-tion of land. See infra. And see McCart-ney v. Dennison, 101 Cal. 252, 35 Pac 766
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In mining law. An open excavation where the works* are visible at the surface; a place or pit where stone, slate, marble, etc., is dug out or separated from a mass of rock. Baiub. Mines, 2. See Marvel v. Merritt, 116 U. S. 11, 6 Sup. Ct. 207, 29 L. Ed. 550; Murray v. Allred, 100 Tenn. 100, 43 S. W. 355, 39 L. R. A. 249, 66 Am. St Rep. 740; Ruttledge v. Eress, 17 Pa. Super. Ct. 495
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A llquid measure, containing* one-fourth part of a gallon
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