Rehearse the concord, or peace. A phrase used in the ancient proceedings for levying fines. It was the form of words by which the Justice before whom the parties appeared directed the serjeant or couutor in attendance to recite or read aloud the concord or agreement between the parties, as to tbe lands Intended to be conveyed. 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, 224, 225
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An abbreviation for “crim-inal conversation,” of very frequent use, de-noting adultery. Gibson v. Cincinnati En-qnirer, 10 Fed. Cas. 311
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The aggregate of seamen who man a ship or vessel, Including the master and officers; or it may mean the ship’s company. exclusive of the master, or exclusive of the master and all other ofilcers. See U. S. v. wlnn, 3 Sumn. 209, 28 Fed. Cas. 733; Mlllaudon v. Martin, 6 Rob. (La.) 540; U. S. v. HufT (C. C.) 13 Fed. 630
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An officer of a court, who makes proclamations. Hls principal duties are to announce the opening of the court and Its adjournment and the fact that certain speclal matters are about to be transacted, to announce the admission of persons to the bar, to call the names of jurors, witnesses, and parties, to announce that a witness has been sworn, to proclaim silence when so directed, and generally to make such proclamations of a public nature as the judges order
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In old records. A sudden stream or torrent; a rising or inundation
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Lat. In the clvil law. A cer-taln number of days allowed an heir to de-liberate whether he would take the inherlt-ance or not. Calvln
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A term used in heraldry; it slg» nifles the devices set over a coat of arms
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In medical jurisprudence. A form of imperfect or arrested mental development, which may amount to idiocy, with physical degeneracy or deformity or lack of development; endemic in Switzerland and some other parts of Europe, but the term is applied to simllar states occurring else-where
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In Saxon law. To put out an eye; which had a pecuniary punishment of fifty shillings annexed to lt
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Twilight In the law of burglary, this term means the presence of sufficient light to discern the face of a man; such light as exists immediately before the rising of the sun or directly after Its setting
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In maritime law. Such little inlets of the sea, whether within the precinct or extent of a port or without, as are narrow passages, and have shore on either side of them. Call. Sew. 56
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A person to whom a debt is owing by another person, called the “debt-oi’.’’ Mohr v. Elevator Co:, 40 Minn. 343, 41 N. W. 1074; Woolverton v. Taylor Co., 43 111. App. 424; Insurance , Co. v. Meeker
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In English prao-tioo. A bill in equity, filed by one or more creditors, for an account of the assets of a decedent, and a legal settlement and dls-tribution of his estate among themselves and such other creditors as may come in under the decree
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Fr. Credit in the English seuse of the term, or nfore particularly, the security for a loan or advancement
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To bring into being ; to cause to exist; to produce; as, to create a trust in lands, to create a corporation. Edwards v. Bibb, 54 Ala. 481; McClellan v. McClellan, 65 Me. 500
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LS. In International law. Tbe instruments which authorize and estah-lish a public miuister in his character with the state or prince to whom they are address^ ed. If the state or prince receive the mln-ister, lie can he received only in the quality attributed to him in his credentials. They are. as it were, his letter of attorney, his mandate patent, mandatum manifest uni, Vattel, liv. 4, c. 6, § 76
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In French law. A claim; a debt; also belief, credit, faith
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A foreigu merchant, but generally taken for oue who has a stall In a fair or market. Blount
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Lat. We create, one of the words by which a corporation in England
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In old English law. A word of disgrace and obloquy, pronounced on either champion, in the ancient trial by bat-tie, proving recreant, i. e., yielding. Glanville tails it “infestum ct inverccundum verb urn.” His condemnation was amittere liberam legem, i. e., to become infamous, and not to be accounted liber et legal is homo, being, sup-l)osed by the event to have been proved for-sworn, and not fit to he put upon a jury or admitted as a witness, wharton
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Large; gross; excessive; ex-treiue. Crassa ignorantia, gross ignorance. Fleta, lib.-5, c. 22, §18
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