Lat. By word of mouth; orally. Pleading was anciently carried on ore tenus, at the bar of the court. 3 Bl. Comm. 293
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In Saxon law. The price or value of a beast A payment for a beast. The payment or forfeiture of a beast. A penalty for taking away cattle. Spelman
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Fr. In French law, an ordinance; an order of a court; a complla-tion or systematized body of law relating to a particular subject-matter, as, commercial law or maritime law. Particularly, a compilation of the law relating to prizes and captures at sea. See Coolidge v. Inglee, 13 Mass. 43
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A llcense or right to dig and tnke ore from land. Ege v. Kille, 84 Pa. 340
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In old English law. Those of the religious who deserted thelr houses, and, throwing off the habits, renounced their particular order in con-tempt of their oath and other obligations. Paroch. Antiq. 388
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Lat. That rule which monks were obliged to observe, order; regular succession. An order of a court
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In ecclesiastical law. The holy orders of priest, deacon, and subdeacon, any of which qualified for presentation and admission to an ecclesiastical dignity or cure were called “ordine* majore*;” and the inferior orders of chanters, psalmists, ostia ry, reader, exorcist, and acolyte were called “ordine* minore*” Persons ordained to the ordine* minore* had their prima tonsura, different from the tonsura clericali*. Cowell.
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Lat. In the clvll law. The benefit or privilege of order; the prlvilege whlch a surety for a debtor had of requlrlng that his princlpal should be dlscussed, or thoroughly prosecuted, be-fore the credltor could resort to him. Nov. 4, c. 1; Heinecc. Elem. lib. 3, tit. 21, $ 883
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In old practice. It is ordered. The Initial words of rules of court when entered in Latin
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A general chapter or other solemn convention of the religious of a particular order
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A writ that lay against a servant for leaving his master contrary to the ordinance of St. 23 & 24 Edw. III. Reg. orlg. 189
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A rule established by authority; a permanent rale of action; a
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The directions as to the course and purpose of a voyage given by the owner of the vessel to the captain or master. For other meanings, see obdeb
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Any member of the English house of commons who wishes to propose any question, or to “move the house,” as it is termed, must, in order to give the house due notice of hls intention, state the form or nature of hls motion on’ a previous day, and have It entered in a book termed the “order-book;” and the motions .so entered, the house arranges, shall be considered on particular days, and such motions or matters, when the day arrives for thelr being considered, are then termed the “or-ders of the day.” Brown. A similar prac-tice obtains in the legislative bodies of this country
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In a general sense. A man-date, precept; a command or direction aa-thorltatively given; a rule or regulation
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In old English law. The rlght of administering oaths and adjudging trials by ordeal within a preclnct or liberty. Cow-ell
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In Spanlsh law. An order emanating from the sovereign, and differing from a cedula only in form and in the mode of Its promulgation. Schm. Civil Law, Introd. 93, note
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To institute or establish; to make an ordinance; to enact a constitution or law. Kepner v. Comm., 40 Pa. 124; U. S. v. Smith, 4 N. J. Law, 38
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or ORDELFE. A liberty whereby a man claims the ore found in his own land; also, the ore lying under land. Cowell
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Deprivation of one’s pa-rents or children, or prlva’tlon in general. Little used
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