(Fr. eour de cassation.) The highest court in France; so termed from possessing the power to quash (casser) the decrees of inferior courts. It is a court of appeal in crimlnal as well as civil cases
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(Lat That the bill be quashed.) In practlce. The form of the judgment for the defendant on a plea in abatement, where the action was commenced by bill, (billa.) 3 Bl. Comm. 303; Steph. Pl. 128, 131. The form of an entry made hy a plaintiff on the record, after a plea in abatement, where he found that the plea could not be confessed and avoided, nor traversed, nor demurred to; amounting in fact to a discontinuance of the action. 2 Archb. Pr. K. B. 8, 236; 1 Tidd, Pr. 683
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In French law. Annul-ling; reversal; breaking the force nnd va-lldlty of a judgment. A decision emanating
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Ready money; whatever can be used as money without heing converted into another form; that which circulates as money, including bank-bills. Hooper v. Flood, 54 Cal. 221; Dazet v. Landry, 21 Nev. 291, 30 Pac. 1064; Blair v. wilson, 28 Grat. (Va.) 165; Haviland v. Chace, 39 Barb. (N. Y.) 284
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1. A general term for an action, danse, suit, or controversy, at law or in equity; a question contested before a court of Justice; an aggregate of facts which fur-nlshes occasion for the exercise of the juris-dlction of a court of Justice. Smith v. wa-terbury. 54 Conn. 174, 7 Atl. 17; Kundolf v. Thalheimer, 12 N. Y. 596; Gebhard v. Sat-tler, 40 Iowa, 156
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A professional name for the aggregate of reported cases as forming a body of jurisprudence; or for the law of a particular subject as evidenced or formed by the adjudged cases; in distinction to statutes and other sources of law
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In old English law. A house with land sufficient for the support of one family, otherwise called “bide,” a hide of land, and by Bede, "familia.” Spelman
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A vassal or feudal tenant possessing a cosata; that is, having a house, household, and property of his own
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Fr. In the law of ln-surance. A fortuitous event; an Inevitable accident
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A certain quantity of land used as the basis for taxation. As much land as may be tilled by a single plow in a year and a day. Also, a team of cattle, or a cart-load
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one who held lands in cartage, or plow-tenure. Cowell
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In old English law. A kind of tax or tribute anciently lmposed upon every plow, (carve or plow-land,) for the public service. Spelman
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Carriers who transport goods aud merchandise in carts, usually for short distances, for hire
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A white sheet of paper; an Instrument signed, but otherwise left blank. A sheet given to an agent, with the principal’s signature appended, to be Ailed up with any contract or engagement as the agent mny see fit. Hence, metaphorically, unlimited authority
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An agreement between two hostile powers for the delivery of prisoners
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In old English law. The charter of the forest More coiu-monly called “Charta de Forcsta," (q. v
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wood or timber which a tenant is allowed by law to tuke from an es-tate, for the purpose of repairing instruments, (including necessary vehicles,) of husbandry. 2 Bl. Comm. 35
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