In Spanish law. Cltation; summons; an order of a court requiring a person against whom a suit has been brought to appear and defend within a given time
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In Scotch law. Any act of fraud whereby a person is reduced to a deed by decreet. It has the same sense In the clvll law. Dig. 50, 17, 49, 155. And see oregon v. Jennings, 119 U. S. 74, 7 Sup. Ct. 124, 30 L. Ed. 323
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A principal fact or event being the object of investigation, the circumstances are the related or accessory facts or occurrences whlch attend upon lt, which closely precede or follow it, which surround and accompany it, which depend upon it, or which support or qualify it Pfaffenhack v. Railroad, 142 Ind. 246, 41 N
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Evidence directed to the attending circumstan-ces; evidence which inferentially proves the principal fact by establishing a condition of surrounding and limiting circumstances, whose existence is a premise from which the existence of the principal fact may be concluded by necessary laws of reasoning. State v. Avery, 113 Mo. 475, 21 S. W. 193; Howard v. State, 34 Ark. 433; State v. Evans, 1 Marvel (Del.) 477, 41 Atl. 136; Comm. v. webster, 5 Cush. (Mass.) 319,. 52 Am. Dec. 711; Gardner v. Preston, 2 Day (Conn.) 205. 2 Am. Dec. 91; State v. Miller, 9 Houst. (Del.) 564, 32 Atl. 137
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In Scotch law. A closing of the period for lodging papers, or dolng any other act required in a cause. Paters. Comp
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The title of a statute passed 13 Edw. I. A. D. 1285, and so called from the initial words of it, the object of whlch was to ascertain the boundaries of ecclesiastical jurisdiction in some particulars, or, in other words, to regulate the jurisdiction of the ecclesiastical and temporal courts. 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, 215, 216
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The name of a system of courts of the United States, in-vested with general original jurisdiction of such matters and causes as are of Federal cognizance, except the matters specially del-egated to the district courts
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In Hindu law. Head of af-fairs; the state or government; a grand di-vision of a province; a headman. A name used by Europeans in Bengal to denote the Hindu writer and accountant employed by themselves, or in the public offices, wharton
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A division of the country, appoiuted for a particular judge to visit for the trial of causes or for the administration of justice. Bouvier
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An old English law term for the stocks, an Instrument iu which the wrists or ankles of petty offenders were coufiued
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A tribute anciently paid to the bishop or archbishop for visiting churches. Du Fresne
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Lat. In tbe civil law. Food; victuals. Dig. 34, L
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Five (now seven) ports or havens on the south-east coast of Eng-laud, towards France, formerly esteemed the most important in the kingdom. They are Dover, Sandwich, Romney, Hastings, and Ilythe, to which wincheisea and Rye have been since added. They had similar fran-chises, in some respects, with the counties palatine, and particularly an exclusive, jurisdiction. (before the mayor and jurats, corres-ponding to aldermen, of the ports,) in which the king’s ordinary writ did not run. 3 BL Comm. 79
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In old English law. A certain portion or measure of wheat, anclent-ly paid to the church on St. Martin's day; and which, according to Fleta, was paid as well in the time of the Britons as of the English. Fleta, lib. 1, c. 47, $ 28
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In Saxon law. A freeman of inferior rank, chiefly employed in husbandry. 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 5. A tenant at will of free condition, who held land from a thane, on condition of rents and services. Cowell. See Ceorl
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A festival of the Christian church, observed on the 25th of December, in memory of the birth of Jesus Christ
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In its most general sense, the religious society founded and established by Jesus Christ, to receive, preserve, and propa-gate hls doctrines and ordinances
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The court Christian. An eccleslastlcal court, as opposed to a civil or lay tribunal. Cowell
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The religion founded and established by Jesus Christ Hale v. Everett, 53 N. H. 9, 54,16 Am. Rep. 82; Peo
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Under the Salic law. This was a ceremony performed by a person who was too poor to pay his debt or fine, whereby he applied to a rich relative to pay it for him. It consisted (after certain preliminaries) in throwing green herbs upon the party, the effect of which was to bind him to pay the whole demand
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Pertaining to Jesus Christ or the religion founded by him; professing Christianity. The adjective is also used in senses more remote from its original meaning. Thus a “court Christian” is an ecclesiastical court; a “Christian name” is that conferred npon a person at baptism Into the Christian church. As a noun, it signifies one who accepts and professes to live by the doctrines and principles of the Christian religion. Hale v. Everett, 53 N. H. 53, 16 Am. Rep. 82; State v. Buswell, 40 Neb. 158, 58 N. W. 728, 24 L. R. A. 68
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