Lat I have him in readiness. The return by the sheriff to a capias ad respondendum, signifying that he has the defendant in readiness to be brought into court
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The sixth day of the last week in Lent, particularly called “Good Friday.” In English law, it is a dies non juridicus
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In the civil law. A conventicle, or unlawful meeting
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In the civil law. Goods brought by wife to husband over and above her dowry
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For two lines of street railway to be “parallel,” within the meaning of a statute, it may not be necessary that the two lines should be parallel for the whole length of each or either route. Ex-act parallelism is not contemplated. Cron-in v. Highland St Ry. Co., 144 Mass. 254, 10 N. E. 833. And see East St. Louis Connecting Ry. Co. v. Jarvis, 92 Fed. 735, 34 C. C. A. 639; Louisville & N. R. Co. v. Ken-tucky, 161 U. 8. 677, 16 Sup. Ct 714, 40 L. Ed. 849
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Above; upwards. That which is superior; usually applied to the highest lord of the fee of lands, tenements, or hereditaments, as distinguished from the mesne (or Intermediate) lord. Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 135
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or PARAGIUM. An eqaal-ity of blood or dignity, but more especially of land, in the partition of an lnheritance between co-heirs: more properly, however, an equality of couditiou among nobler, or
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A part or section of a statute, pleading, affidavit, etc., which con-tains one article, the sense of which is com-plete. McClellan v. Hein, 56 Neb. 600, 77 N. W. 120; Hill v. Fairhaven A W. R. Co., 75 Conn. 177, 52 Atl. 725; Marine v. Pack-ham, 52 Fed. 579, 3 C. C. A. 210; Bailey v. Mosher, 63 Fed. 488, 11 C. C. A. 304
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The teuure between par-teeners, viz., that which the youngest owes to the eldest without homage or service. Domesday
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A dramatic performance in which gestures take the place of words. See 3 C. B. 871
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A written or printed document or Instrument, A document filed or intro-duced in evidence in a suit at law, as, ia the phrase “papers in the case” and in “pa-pers on appeal.” Any writing or printed document, including letters, memoranda, legal or business documents, and books of account, as in the constitutional provision which protects the people from unreason-able searches and seizures in respect to their “papers” as well as thelr houses and per-sons. A written or printed evidence of debt, particularly a promissory note or a bill of exchange, as in the phrases “accommoda-tion paper” and “commercial paper.”
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A common of pannage is the right of feeding swine on mast aud acorns at certain seasons in a commonable wood or forest. Elton, Commons, 25; W11–liams, Common, 168
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The roll or slip of parchment returned by the sheriff in obedience to a venire facias, containing the names of the per-sons whom he has summoned to attend the court ns jurymen. Beasley v. People, 89 111. 571; People v. Coyodo, 40 Col. 592
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IS. Lat in old Engllsh law. Bread; loaf; a loaf. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 9
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An ale-wife; a woman that both brewed arid sold ale and beer
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The name given in Pennsylvania to the publication, in pam-phlet or book form, containing the acts pass-ed by the state legislature at each of its biennial sessions
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A compilation of Roman law, consisting of selected pussages from the writings of the most authoritative of the older jurists, methodically arranged, pre-pared by Tribonian with the assistance of sixteen associates, under a commission from the emperor Justinian. This work, which I£ otherwise called the “Digest,” comprises fif-ty books, and is one of the four great works composing the Corpus Juris Civilis. It wad first published in A. D. 533
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A name given to the English statute 19 & 20 Vlct c. 16, enabling a person accused of a crime committed out of the jurisdiction of the central crlminal court, to be-tried in that court
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A small book, bound in paper covers, usually printed in the octavo form, and stitched. See U. .S. v. Chase, 135 U. S. 255, 10 Sup. Ct. 756, 34 L. Ed. 117
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