Under the municipal organization of the state of New Jersey, each county has a board of officers, called by this name, composed of representatives from the cities and townships within its limits, and charged with administering the revenues of the county. They correspond to the “county commissioners” or "super-visors” in other states
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In Hindu law. A fourth, a fourth part of the sum in litigation. The “Mahratta chout” is a fourth of the revenues exacted as tribute by the Mahrattas
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A rlght to personal things of whlch the owner has not the possession, but merely a right of action for thelr possession. 2 Bl. Comm. 389, 397; 1 Chit Pr. 99
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A thing in possession, as distinguished from a thing in action. Sterling v. Sims, 72 Ga. 53; Vaw-ter v. Griffin, 40 Ind. 601. See Chose in Action. Taxes and customs, lf paid, are a chose in possession; if unpaid, a chose in action. 2 BL Comm. 406
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A word mentioned in 9 Hen. VI. c. 65, by the sense of which it was in those days a klnd of trade, and by tlie judges declared to be lawful. But Brooke, in hls abrldgment, says it was only permissi-ble by law. It was, wlthout doubt, a nick-name glven to those who used to change benefices, as to "chop and change" is a com-mon expression. Jacob
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Fr. A thing; an article of prop-erty. A chose is .a chattel personal, (WU-liams, Pers. Prop. 4.) and is either in posses-sion or in action. See the following titles
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In Roman law. A handwriting; that which was written with a person’s own hand. An obligation which a person wrote or subscribed with hls own hand; an acknowledgment of debt, as of money received, wlth a promise to repay
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In English law. The name of a court anciently held as a court of honor merely, before the earl-mar-shal, and as a crimlnal court before the lord high constable, jointly with the earl-marshal. It had jurisdiction as to contracts and other matters touchlng deeds of arms or war, as well as pleas of llfe or member. It also cor-rected encroachments in matters of coat-ar-mor, precedency, and other dlstlnctions of
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In Roman law. writ* ings emanating from a single party, the debtor
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In old English law. A tax upon trade; a toll imposed upou trattic. or upon goods brought to a pluoe to be sold
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A toll for passing on a way through a forest; called in the civil law “pedagium.” Cowell
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The way by which the king and all hls subjects and all under his protection have a right to pass, though the proi»erty of the soil of each side where the way lieth may belong to a private man. Cowell
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In Engllsh law. The stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds is a nominal ofiice in the gift of the crown, usually accepted by members of the house of commons desirous of vacating their seats. By law a member once duly elected to parliament is compelled to discharge the duties of the trust conferred upon him, aud is not enabled at will to resign it. But by statute, if any member accepts any office of profit from the crown, (except officers in the army or navy accepting a new commission,) his seat is vacated. If, therefore, any niem-ber wishes to retire fron^ the representation of the county or borough by which he was sent to parliament, he applies to the lords of the treasury for the stewardship of oue of the Chiltern Hundreds, which having recelv-ed, and thereby accomplished his purpose, he again resigns the office. Brown
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In old English law. A road, way, highway. It is either the king's highway (chiminus regis) or a private way. The first is that over which the subjects of the realm, and all others under tbe pro-tection of the crown, have free liberty to pass, though the property in the soil itself belong to some private individual; the last is that in which one person or more have lib-erty to pass over the land of another, hy pre-scriptlon or charter, wharton
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This word has two meanings in law: (1) In the law of the domestic relations, nnd as to descent and distribution, it is used strictly as the correlative of “parent,” and means a son or daughter considered as in relation with the father or mother. (2) In the law of negligence, and in laws for the protection of children, etc., it is used as the
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In Saxon law. The right which a lord had of taking a fine of his bond-woman gotten wlth child without his license. Termes de la Ley; Cowell
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Principal; leading; head; emi-nent in power or importance; the most im-portant or valuable of several
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Tn feudal law. A small rent paid to the lord paramount
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A homestead or hoinesfall which is accessory to a house
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Swlndllng; shrewd cunning. The use of tricks and artifice
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An agreement or corn-position ; an end or order set down between a creditor or debtor; an Indirect gain in point of usury, etc.; also an unlawful bargain or contract, wharton
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In old records. Pieces of ground, or heads at the end of plowed lands. Cowell
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A sum of money paid by vil-lelns to their lords in acknowledgment of their bondage
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