In English ec-tfeslastical law. A right of the crown to name to the first prebend that becomes va-cant after the accession of the sovereign, in every church of the empire. This right was exercised by the crown of Eugland in the reign of Edward I. 2 Steph. Comm. 670, note
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A constable’s or police dis-trict. The immediate neighborhood of a palace or court. A poll-diatrlct. See Union Pac. Ry. Co. v. Ryan, 113 U. S. 516, 5 Sup. Ct 601, 28 L. Ed. 1098; Railway Co. v. oconto, 50 wis. 189, 6 N. W. 607, 36 Am. Rep. 840; State v. Anslinger, 171 Mo. 600, 71 S. W. 1041
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Lat. In Roman law. Prayers, one of the names of an application to the emperor. Tayl. Civil Law, 230
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In Enclisb and Amerioan law. An order or direction, emanating from authority, to an officer or body of officers, commanding him or them to do eome act within the scope of their powers
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The continuance of a suit by consent of both parties. Cowell
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An adjudged case or de-clslon of a court of Justice, considered as furnishing an example or authority for an identical or similar case afterwards arising or a similar question of law
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Such os must happen or be performed before an estate can vest or be enlarged. See Conditiok Pbecedent
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Having the nature of prayer, request, or entreaty; conveying or embodying a recommendation or advlce or
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Liable to be returned or rendered up at the mere demand or re-quest of another; hence held or retained only on sufferance or by permission; and by an extension of meauing, doubtful, uncertain, dangerous, very liable to break, fail, or ter-minate
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Lat. in the civil law. A convention whereby one allows another the use of a thing or the exercise of a right gra-tuitously tlll revocation. The bailee acquires thereby the lawful possession of tiie thiug, except in certain cases. The bailor can re-demand the thing at any time, even should he have allowed it to the bailee for a desig: nated period. Mackeld. Rom. Law, | 447
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An ecclesiastical per-son serving on the staff of a cathedral, and receiving a stated allowance or stipend from the income or endowment of the cathedral, in compensation for his services
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The right of being heard before another. A privilege belonging to the English bar, the members of wbicb are entitled to be heard in their order, ac-cording to rank, beginning with the king’s attorney general, and ending with barristers at large. 3 Steph. Comm. 387, note
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In English ecclesiastical law. A stipend granted in cathedral church-es; also, but Improperly, a prebendary. A simple prebend is merely a revenue; a pre-bend with dignity has some jurisdiction attached to it. The term “prebend” is general-ly confounded with “canonicate;” but there is a difference between them. The former is the stipend grauted to an ecclesiastic in consideration of his officiating and serving in the church; whereas the canonicate is a mere title or spiritual quality which may exist independently of any stipend. 2 Steph. Comm. 674, note
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A clause at the beginning of a constitution or statute explanatory of the reasons for its enactment and the ob-jects sought to be accomplished. See Town-send v. State. 147 Ind. 624, 47 N. E. 19. 37 L. R. A. 294, 62 Am. St Rep. 477; Fenner v. Luzerne County, 167 Pa. 632, 31 Atl. 862; Lloyd v. Urison, 2 N. J. Law, 224; Cover-dale v. Edwards, 155 Ind. 374, 58 N. E. 495
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OF PROCESS is a petition with which a bill in equity used to conclude, to the effect that a writ of subpoena might issue against the defendant to compel him to answer upon oath all the matters charged against hlm in the bill
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In old English practice. To call upon for assistance. In real actions, the tenant might pray in aid or call for assistance of another, to help him to plead, because of the feebleness or imbecility of his own estate. 3 Bl. Comm. 300
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An extensive tract of level or rolling land, destitute of trees, covered with coarse grass, and usually characterized by a deep, fertile soil, webster. See Buxton v. Railroad Co., 58 Mo. 45; Brunell v. Hop-kins, 42 Iowa, 429
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A license for the master of a ship to traffic in the ports of a given country, or with the inhabitants of a given port, upon the lifting of quarantine or pro-duction of a clean bill of health
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In Frenob law. An expression used to designate those ordinances which concern the most important objects of the civil or ecclesiastical ad-ministration. Merl. RApert
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In Spanish colonial law. An order emanating from the sov
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Lat in the civil law. one who betrays hls trust, or is unfaithful to hls trust An advocate who aids the opposite party by betraying his client’s cause. Dig. 47, 15, 1
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