A speclal traverse used in an action of trover, alleging that de-feudant was not possessed, at the time of ac-tion brought, of the chattels alleged to have been converted by him
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These words, Indorsed on a bill of indictment by a grand jury, have
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A plea of the general Issue in the actions of trespass and case and in criminal prosecutions
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Longevity and annuity tables compiled from bllls of mortality kept in All Saints parish, Eng-land, in 1735-1780
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In the civil law. Persons who have the management and care of hospitals for paupers
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The tongue in whlch several formal proceedings of state in England are stlll carrled on. The lan-guage, having remained the same since the date of the Conquest, at which it was in-troduced into England, is very different from the French of this day, retaining all the pe-cultarlties which at that time distinguished every province from the rest A peculiar mode of pronunciation (considered authentic) is handed down and preserved by the officials who have, on particular occasions, to speak the tongue. Norman French was the language of Euglish legal procedure till the 36 Edw. III. (A. D. 1362). wharton
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In English law. The title of the third of the three klngs-at-arms, or pro-vlncial heralds
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opposed to exceptional; that state wherein any body most exactly corn-ports in all its parts with the abstract idea thereof, and is most exactly fitted to perform its proper functions, is entitled “nor-mal.”
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Unintelligible matter in a written agreement or will
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Not following up the cause; failure on the part of a plaintiff to continue the prosecution of his suit. An ahandon-ment or renunciation of his suit, by a plain-tiff, either by omitting to take the next nec-essary steps, or voluntarily relinquishing the action, or pursuant to an order of the court. An order or judgment, granted upou the trial of a cause, that the plaintlfT hns abandoned, or shall abandon, the further prosecution of hls suit
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The neglect or failure of a person to do some act which he ought to do. The term is not generally used to denote a breach of contract, but rather the failure to perform a dnty towards the public whereby some Individual sustains special damage, as where a sheriff falls to execute a writ Sweet See Colte v. Lines, 33 Conn. 115; Gregor v. Cady, 82 Me. 131, 19 Atl. 108, 17 Am. St. Rep. 466; Carr v. Kansas City (C. C.) 87 Fed. 1; Minkler v. State, 14 Neb. 181, 15 N. W. 830; Illinois Cent. R. Co. v. Foulks, 191 111. 57, 60 N. E. 890
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In old ecclesiastical law. A nun. Nonnus, a monk. Spelman
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UM, or NONAGE. A ninth part of movables which was pald to the clergy on the death of persons in their parish, and claimed on pretense of being dis-tributed to pious uses. Blount
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ES. In the Roman calendar. The fifth and, in March, May, July, and october, the seventh day of the mouth. So called because, counting lnclusively, they were nine days from the ides. Adams, Rom. Ant 355, 357
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Payments made to the church, by those who were tenants of church-farms. The first was a rent or duty for things belonging to husbandry; the sec-ond was claimed in right of the church, wharton
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Lat. He has not usurped. A form of traverse. In an action or proceeding against one alleged to have usurped an office or franchise, denying the usurpation charged. See Com. v. Cross Cut R. Co., 53 Pa. 62
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Inability to sue. 5 Bell, App. Cas. 172
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The vacation between term and term, formerly called the time or days of the king’s peace
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Neglect to use. Neglect to use a franchise; neglect to exercise an office. 2 Bl. Comm. 153. Neglect or omis-slon to use an easement or otber right 3 Kent, Comm. 448. A right acquired by use may be lost by non-user
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A plea in a real action, by wbich the defendant asserts, either as to the whole or as to some part of the land mentioned in the plaintiff’s declaration, that he does not hold it. Pub. St. Mass. 1882, p. 1293
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Lat He did not hold. This is the name of a plea iu bar in re* plevin, by which the plaintiff alleges that he did not hold in manner and form as averred, belng given in answer to an avowry for rent In arrear. See Rosc. Real Act 638
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