(1) An assessment or tax; (2) a tenant of land was said to eesse when he neglected or ceased to perform the services due to the lord. Co. Lltt. 373a, 380b
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In Spanish law. An assignee, white, New Recop. b. 3, tit. 10, c
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In old records. An ale-house keeper. A beer or ale brewer. Blount
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In Saxon law. Tenants who were bound to supply drink for their lord’s table. Cowell
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In English chancery practice. An original bill praying relief. It was filed for the purpose of removing a suit pending in some inferior court of equity iuto the court of chancery, on ac-count of some alleged Incompetency or in-convenience
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A copy of a docu-meut. signed aud certified as a true copy by the oflicer to whose custody the original is intrusted. Doremus v. Smith, 4 N. J. Law, 143; People v. Foster. 27 Misc. Rep. 576. 58 N. Y. Supp. 574; Nelson v. Blakey, 54 Ind. 36
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Lat. (To be Informed of, to be made certain in regard to.) The name of a writ issued by a superior court dl-rectlng au inferior court to send up to the former some pending proceeding, or all tbe record and proceedings in a cause before verdict, with its certificate to the correctness and completeness of tlie record, for review or trial; or it may serve to bring up the rec-ord of a case already terminated below, if the inferior court is one not of record, or in cases where the procedure is not according to the course of the common law. State v. Sullivan (C. C.) 50 Fed. 593; Dean v. State, 63 Ala. 154; Railroad Co. v. Trust Co. (C. C.) 78 Fed. 661; Fowler v. Lindsey, 3 Dali. 413, 1 L. Ed. 658; Basnet v. Jacksonville, 18 Fla. 526; walpole v. Ink, 9 ohio, 144; Peo-ple v. Livingston County, 43 Barb. (N. Y.) 234
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In the practice of bankers. This is a depositor’s check rec-ognlzed and accepted by the proper officer of the bank as a valid appropriation of the amount specified to the payee named, and as drawn against funds of such depositor held by the bank. The usual method of certiflca-tion is for the cashier or teller to write across the face of the check, over his signa-ture. a statement that it is “good when prop-erly Indorsed” for the amount of money writ-ten iu the body of the check
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In Scotch practice. This is the assurance given to a party of the course to be followed iu case he does not ap-l>ear or obey the order of the court
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In English law. A writ com-manding the mayor of the staple to certify to the lord chancellor a statute-staple taken before him where the party himself detains it, and refuses to bring in the same. There
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A written assurance, or official representation, that some act has or has not been done, or some event occurred, or some legal formality been complied with. Particularly, such written assurance made or issuing from some court, and designed as a notice of things done therein, or as a warrant or authority, to some other court, Judge, or oflicer. People v. Foster, 27 Misc. Rep. 576, 58 N. Y. Supp. 574; U. S. v. Ambrose, 108 U. S. 336, 2 Sup. Ct. 682, 27 L. Ed. 746; Tl-conic Bank v. Stackpole, 41 Me. 305.
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Ascertained; precise; iden-tified; definitive; clearly known; unamhlg* nous; or, in law, capable of being identified or made known, without liability to mis-take or ambiguity, from data already given. Cooper v. Blgly, 13 Mich. 479; Losecco v. Gregory, 108 La. 648, 32 South. 986; Smith ▼. Fyler, 2 Hill (N. Y.) 649; Civ. Code La. 1900, art 3556
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In pleading. Distinct-ness; dearness of statement; particularity. Such precision and explicitness in the state-ment of alleged facts that the pleader’s averments and contention may be readily under* stood by the pleader on the other side, as well as by the court and jury. State v. Hayward, 83 Mo. 300; State v. Burke, 151 Mo. 143, 52 S. W. 226; David v. David, 66 Ala. 148
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In old English law. A certain thing. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 60, if 24, 25
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In old English law. A payment to provide candles tn the church. Blount
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Lat. An Impressed seat It does not necessarily refer to an impression on wax, but may Include an impression made on wafers or other adhesive substances capable of receiving an inipres-sion, or even paper. Pierce v. Indseth, 106 U. S. 546, 1 Sup. Ct. 418, 27 L. Ed. 254
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