An offl-cer of the central office of the English supreme court. Formerly he was an ofiicer of the exchequer, aud had important duties to
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A country where >an oflicer called a “king” exercises the powers of gov-ernment, whether tbe same be absolute or limited. Wolff, InsL Nat. | 994. In some kingdoms, the executive officer may be a womau, who is called a “queen.”
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BENCH. The supreme court of common law in England, being so called be-cause the king used formerly to sit there in person, the style of the court being “coram ipso rege” It was called the “queen’s bench” in the reign of a queen, and during the pro-tectorate of Cromwell it was styled the “up
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A proctor or solici-tor representing the crown in the former practice of the courts of probate and divorce. In petitions for dissolution of marriage, or for declarations of nullity of marriage, the king’s proctor may, under the direction of the attorney geueral, ami by leave of the court, intervene in the suit for the puriwse of proviug collusion between the parties. Mozley & whltley
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The sovereigu, ruler, or chief ex-ecutive magistrate of a state or nation whose constitution is of the kind called “monarchi-cal” is thus named if a man; if it be a woman, she is called “queen.” The word ex-presses the idea of one who rules singly over a whole people or has the highest execu-tive power; but the office may be either hereditary or elective, aud the sovereignty of the kiug may or may not be absolute, accord-ing to the constitution of the country
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OGATE. An Engllsh advo-cate who holds, in the courts in which the rules of the canon and civil law prevail, a similar position to that which the attorney geueral holds in the ordlnary courts, i. e., he acts as counsel for the crown in ecclesias-tical, admiralty, and probate cases, and ad-vises the crown on questions of international law. in order of precedence it seems that he ranks after the attorney general. 3 Steph. Comm. 275n
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Relatives by blood. “Kin-dred of the whole blood, preferred to kindred of the half blood.” 4 Kent, Comm. 404, notes. See Butler v. Elytou Land Co., 84 Ala. 384, 4 South. 675; Farr v. Flood, 11 Cush. (Mass.) 25; Brookfield v. Alien, 6 Alien (Mass.) 586; wetter v. walker, 62 Ga. 144
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An ancient servile payment made by tenants in husbandry. Cowell
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A custom by which lords of manors were bound to provide a stallion for the use of thelr tenants* mares. Spelman
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The forcible abduction or stealing away of a man, woman, or child from their own country, and sending them lnto another. It is an offeuse punishable at the common law by flne and imprisonment. 4 Bl. Comm. 219
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In Hindu law. Au office of goverumeut in which the business of the reveuue department was transacted under the Mohammedan government, and during the early period of British rule. Khalsa lands are lands, the revenue of which is paid into the exchequer, wharton
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In old English law. A dam or open wear in a river, with a loop or nar-row cut in it, accommodated for the laying of engines to catch fish. 2 lnst 38; Blount
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A toll paid for loading and unloading merchandise at a key or wharf. Rowan v. Portland, 8 B. Mon. (Ky.) 253
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In old Scotch law. Certain ofilcers of courts. See Claves Cu-BIJ£
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The jagged end of a- stick of wood made hy the cutting. Pub. SL Mass. 1882, p. 1292
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A customary cart-way; also a commutation for a customary carriage-duty. CoweU
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The division of a county; a hundred in wales. See Cantked.
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A series of resolutions drawn up by Jefferson, and adopted by the legislature of Kentucky in 1799, protesting against the “alien aud sedi-tiou laws,” declaring their illegality, announc-ing the strict constructionist theory of the federal government, and declaring “nulllfi-cation” to be “the rightful remedy
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In Scotch law. The act of the sheriff in ascertaining the just proportion of the husband’s lands which belong to the widow in right of her terce or dower. Bell
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In marltime law. A per-manent ballast, consisting usually of pigs of iron, cast in a particular form, or other weighty material, which, on account of lts superior cleanliness, and the small space oc-cupied by it, is frequently preferred to or-dinary ballast Abb. Shipp. 5
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A custodian, manager, or su-perlntendent; one who has the care, cus-tody, or management of any thing or place. Schultz v. State, 32 ohlo St. 281; State v. Rozum, 8 N. D. 548, 80 N. W. 481; Fishell v. Morris, 57 Conn. 547, 18 Atl. 717, 6 L. R. A. 82; McCoy v. Zane, 65 Mo. 15; Stevens v. People, 67 111. 590
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