Lat. I have taken. This word was of frequent use in the returns of sheriffs when they were made in Latin, and particu-larly in the return to a writ of capias
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In old English law. The stumps or roots of trees which remain in the ground after the trees are felled. Fleta, llb. 2, C. 41, f 24
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In Roman law. The name of an important court consisting of a body of one hundred and five judges, it was made up by choosing three representatives from each of the thirty-five Roman tribes. The judges sat as one body for the trial of certain important or difficult questions, (call-ed,■ “causae centumvirales") but ordinarily they were separated into four distinct tribunals
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In Anglo Saxon law. The free-men were dlvlded into tWo classes,—thanes nnd ceorls. The thanes were the proprietors of the soil, which was entirely at their dis-posal. The ceorls were men personally free, but possessing no landed property. Guizot, Rep. Govt
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The central ofiice of the supreme court of judicature in England is the office established in pursuance of the recommendation of the legal depart
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This word is used to express the system of government pre-vailing in a country where the management of local matters is in the hands of function-aries appointed by the ministers of state, paid hy the state, and in constant communication and under the constant control and inspira-tlon of the ministers of state, and where the funds of the state are largely applied to local purposes, wharton
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The name of a denomination of Freuch money, being the one-hundredth part of a franc
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The principal inhabitants of a centena, or district composed of different villages, originally in number a hundred, but afterwards only called by that name
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A coin of the United States, the least in value of those now minted. It is the one-hundreth part of a dollar. Its weight is 72 gr., and it is composed of copper and nickel in the ratlo of 88 to 12
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A hundred. A district or division containing originally a hundred free-men, established among the Goths, Germans, Franks, and Lombards, for military and civil purposes, and answering to the Saxon “hun-dred.” Spelman; 1 Bl. Comm. 115
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The official counting or enu-meration of the people of a state or nation
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In English law. The annual revenue or income of the crown
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or CENSU-MORTHIDUS. A dead, rent, like that which is called “mortmain.” Blount; Cowell
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In ecclesiastical law. A spiritual punishment, consisting in withdraw-ing from a baptized person (whether be-longing to the clergy or the laity) a privilege which the church gives him, or in wholly ex-pelling him from the Christian communiou. The principal varieties of censures are ad-monition, degradation, deprivation, excom-munlcation, penance, sequestration, suspension. Phillim. Ecc. Law, 1367
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ln old European law. A species of oblati or voluntary slaves of churches or monasteries; those who, to pro-cure tbe protection of the church, hound themselves to pay an annual tax or quit-rent only of their estates to a church or monas-tery
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In Romnn law. They have decreed. The term of art, or technical term for the judgment, resolution, or decree of the senate. Tayl. Civll Law, 566
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In Spanish and Mexican law. An annuity. A ground rent The right which a person acquires to receive a certain annual pension, for the delivery which he makes to another of a determined sum of money or of an immovable thing. Civ. Code Mex. art. 3206. See Schm. Civil Law, 149, 300; white, New Recop. bk. 2, c. 7, § 4
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In old Engllsh law. Farmers, or such persons as were liable to pay a census, (tax.) Blount; Cowell
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In the Roman law. To or-daln; to decree. Dig. 50, 16, 111
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A notice given hy a buyer to a seller that the tilings which bad been sold were claimed by another, in order that he might appear and Justify the sale. Blount; whishaw
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In French Canadian lnw. An an-nual tribute or due reserved to a seignior or lord, and imposed merely in recognition of his superiority. Guyot, Iust. c. 9
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In Saxon law. An expia-tory mulct or fine paid to the relations of a murdered person by the murderer or his re-lations. Spelmau
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