Lat A Join-ing together or contribution of goods into a common fund. This occurs where a portion of money, advanced by the father to a son or daughter, is brought into hotchpot, in order to have an equal distributory share of hls personal estate at his death. See Collation
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In old Eng-lish law. A comparison of marks or seals. A mode of testing the genuineness of a seal, by comparing it with another known to be genuine. Adams. See Bract fol. 389b
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By the side; at the slde; attached upon the side. Not llneal, but upon a parallel or diverging line. Additional or auxlllary; supplementary; cooperating
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The ancient title of masters in chancery
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Lat in old English law. Associate judges haviug equality of power with others
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The trial which was anciently used for the common
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The process or the function of coining metallic money; also the great mass of metallic money in circulation. Meyer v. Roosevelt, 25 How. Prac. (N. Y.) 105
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In medical jurisprudence. Sexual intercourse; carnal copulation
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A tribute made by those who meet promiscuously in a market or fair. Du Cange
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A title given to serjeants at law, who are called “serjeants of the coif,’’ from the coif they wear on their heads. The use of this coif at first was to cover the clerical tonsure, many of the practising serjeants being clergyman who had abandoned their profession. It was a thin linen cover, gathered together in the form of a skull or helmet; the material being afterwards changed into white silk, and the form eventually into the black patch at the top of the forensic wig, which is now the distinguishing mark of the degree of serjeant at law. (Cowell; Foss, Judg.; 3 Steph. Comm. 272, note.) Brown
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A joint heiress. A woman who has an equal share of an inherit-ance with another woman
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Living together; liv-ing together as husband and wife
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Lat. in civil and old English law. A co-helr, or Joint heir
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In Roman law. A man's family name. The first name (prcrnomcn) was the proper name of the Individual; the second (nomen) indicated the gens or tribe to which he belonged; while the third (cognomen) denoted his family or house
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(He has con-fessed the action.) A defendant’s written confession of an action brought agninst him, to which he has no available defense. It is usually upon condltion that he shall be al-lowed a certain time for the payment of the debt or damages, and costs. It is supposed to be given in court, and It impliedly au-thorizes the plaintiff’s attorney to sign judg-ment and issue execution. Mallory v. Kirk-patrick, 54 . N. J. Eq. 50, 33 Atl. 205
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In the Roman law. An ad-vocate or defender in a private cause; one who defended the cause of person who was present. Calvin. Lex. Jurid
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In old praotioe. That part of a fine in whlch the defendant acknowledged that the land in question was the right of the complainant. From this the fine itself derlved its name, as being sur cognizance de droit, etc., and the parties thelr titles of cognizor and cognizec
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Ensigns and arms, or a military coat painted with arms. Mat. Par. 1250
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Lat. In the civil law. A relation by the mother’s side; a cognate
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Lat. In the civil law. Cognation. Relationship, or kindred gener-ally. Dig. 38, 10, 4, 2; Inst. 3, 6, pr
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In the civil law. Signl-fies generally the kindred which exists be-tween two persons who are united by ties of blood or family, or both
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(Lat eognati.) Relations by the mother’s side, or by females. Mac-keld. Rom. Law, $ 144. A common term in Scotch law. Ersk. Inst 1, 7, 4
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