In English ecclesiastical law. The church of the blshop of the dlo-cese, in which is his cathedra, or throne, nnd his special Jurisdiction; in that respect the principal church of the diocese
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Land In Norfolk, so call-ed because it is not known to what parish it belongs, and the minister who first seizes the tithes of it, by right of preoccupation, enjoys them for that year. Cowell
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LL. A name formerly given to a sheriff's deputy, or to a constable, or other officer whose duty it is to arrest persons. He was a sort of serjeant The word is not now in use as an official designation. Minshew
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Things caught, and in the possession, custody, power, and dominion of the party, with a present capacity to use them for hls own purposes. The term includes blubher, dr pieces of whale flesh cut from the whale, and stowed on or under the deck of a. ship. A policy of lnsurance upon out-fits, and cntchings substituted for the outfits, in a whaling voyage, protects the blubber. Rogers v. Insurance Co., 1 Story, 603; Fed. Cas. No. 12.016; 4 Law Rep. 297
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A tenant in capite. A tenant holding immediately of the crown. Spelman
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A chattel. Most frequent-ly used in the plural form, catalla, (q. v
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An obsolete writ that lay where a house was within a borough, for rent issuing out of the same, and which war-ranted the taking of doors, windows, etc., by way of distress
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Inevitable accldent; an event not to be foreseen or guarded against A loss from such an event or cause; as by fire, shipwreck, lightning, etc. Story, Bailm. $ 240; Gill v. Fugate, 117 Ky. 257, 78 S. W. 191; McCarty v. Railroad Co., 30 Pa. 251; Railroad Co. v. Car Co., 139 U. S. 79, 11 Sup. Ct. 490, 35 L. Ed. 97; Ennls v. Bldg. Ass'n, 102 Iowa, 520, 71 N. W. 426; Anthony v. Karbach, 64 Neb. 509, 90 N. W. 243, 97 Am. St. Rep. 662
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In old English Law. Chattels. The word among the Normans prlma-rlly signified only beasts of husbandry, or, as they are still called, “cattle,” but, in a secondary sense, the term was applied to all movables in general, and not only to these, but to whatever was not a fief or fend, wharton
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A writ of entry framed under the provisions of the statute of Gloucester, (6 Edw. I.,) c. 7, which lay for the benefit of the reversioner when a ten-ant in dower aliened in fee or for life
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That which happens accident-ally, or is brought about by causes un* known; fortuitous; the result of chance. Lewis v. Lofley, 92 Ga. 804, 19 S. E. 57
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In the Roman law. Relating to the camp or military service
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In old Engllsh law. A writ of entry, granted where tenant hy the curtesy, or tenant for life, allenated in fee, or in tail, or for another’s llfe, whlch was brought by him in reversion against the party to whom such tenant so alienated to
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where the votes of a deliberative assembly or legislative body are equally divided on any question or motion, it is the privilege of the presiding offl-cer to cast one vote (lf otherwise he would not he entitled to any vote) on either side, or to cast one additional vote, if he has al-ready voted as a member of the body. This is called the “casting vote.”
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In feudal law. An imposition anciently laid upon such persons as lived within a certain distance of any castle, towards the maintenance, bf such as watched and warded the castle
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In Sax-on and old English law. Castle work. Serv-ice and labor done by Inferior tenants for the bulldlng and upholding castles and pub-lic places of defense, one of the three *nec-essary charges, (trinoda ncccssitas.) to which all lands among the Saxons were expressly subject Cowell
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An engine used to punish women who have been convicted of being common scolds. It is sometimes called the “trebucket," “tumbrel,” “ducking-stool," or “cucking-stool.” U. S. v. Royall, 27 Fed. Cas. 907
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A castellaln; the keeper or constable of a castle. Spelman
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In old Engllsh law. The preclnct or juris-diction of a castle. Blonnt
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(Lat That the writ be quashed.) In practice. The form of the judgment for the defendant on a plea in abatement, where the action was commenced hy original writ, (breve.) 3 Bl. Comm. 303; Steph. Pl. 107, 109
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In old Engllsh law. The lord, owner, or captain of a castle; the constable of a fortified house; a person having the custody of one of the crown mansions; an officer of the forest
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