Fr. In Freuch marine law. The contract of bottomry. Drd, Mar. llv. 3, tlt 5
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In England. An officer of the royal household, who has charge of the klng’s w’ardrobe
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Formerly an officer belonging to the royal household. Jacoh
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A liqnor saloon, bar-room, or dram-shop; a place where intoxi-cating liquor is sold to be drunk on the premises. See Leesburg v. Putnam, 103 Ga. 110, 29 S. E. 602
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In old records. A deep hoI-low or pit; a bog or miry place. Cowell
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An English sllver coin (value four pence) Issued from the fourteenth to the seventeenth century. See Reg. v. Con-nell, 1 Car. & K. 191
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In old English law. A mer-chant or trader who engrossed all vendible merchandise; an engrosser. St. 37 Edw. III. c. 5. See Exgbosseb
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In old records. The sea shore, sand, or heach. 2 Mon. Angl. 625; Cowell
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The statute 10 Geo. III. c. 16, by which the jurisdiction over par-11a men tary election petitions was transferred from the whole house of commons to select committees Repealed by 9 Geo. IV. c. 22. ll
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In Engllsh law. A customary fine due from a copyhold tenant on
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In Spanish law. A guild; an association of workmen, artificers, or mer-chants following the same trade or business; designed to protect and further the interests of their craft
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Lat The bosom or breast; hence, derivatively, safeguard or protection. In English law, an estate which is in abey-ance is said to be in gremio legis; that is, in the protection or keeping of the law
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The code or collection of constitutions made by the Roman jurist Gregorius. See Codex Gregorianus
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The time from which the Gregorian calendar or computation dates; i. e., from the year 1582
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In forest law. The same as vert, (q. v.) Termes de la Ley
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In French law. Regis-trars, or cierks of the courts. They are officials attached to the courts to assist the Judg-es in their duties. They keep the minutes, write out the judgments, orders, and other decisions given by the tribunals, and deliver copies thereof to applicants
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In English law. The name of the estreats in the exchequer, delivered to the sheriff under the seal of that court which was impressed upon green wax
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The popular and almost exclusive name applied to all United States treasury Issues. It is not applied to any oth-er species of paper currency; and, when em-ployed in testimony by way of description, is as certain ns the phrase “treasury notes.” Hickey v. State, 23 Ind. 23. And see U. S. v. Howell (D. C.) G4 Fed. 114; Spencer v. Prlndle, 28 Cal. 276; Levy v. State, 79 Ala. 261
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In English law. A board or court of justice held in the counting-house of the king’s (or queen’s) household, and composed of the lord steward and infe-rlor officers. It takes lts name from the green cloth spread over the board at whlch it is held, wharton; Cowell
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A feudal custom in the manor of writtel, in Essex, where every tenant whose front door opens to Greenbury shall pay a half-penny yearly to the lord, by the name of “green silver” or “rent” Cow-elL
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Satisfaction for an offense com-mitted or injury done. Cowell
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A colloquial ex-pression to signify a time indefinitely remote, there heing no *such division of time known to the Greeks
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