Lat. By the head; by the poll; severally to each individual
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In old English law. Chief, principal; at the head. A term applied to
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The common stock or fund of a corporation. The sum of money raised by the subscriptions of the stockhold-ers, and dlvlded into shares. It is sald to he the sum upon which calls may be made upon the stockholders, and dividends are to he paid. Christensen v. Eno, 106 N. Y. 97, 12 N. E. 648, 60 Am. Rep. 429; People v. Com’rs, 23 N. Y. 219; State v. Jones, 51 ohio St. 492. 37 N. E. 945; Burrall v. Railroad Go., 75 N. Y. 216
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A thing which is stolen, or the value of it. Blount
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(Let him be taken for the fine.) In English practice. A clause inserted at the end of old judgment records in actions of debt, where the defend-ant denied bis deed, and it was found against
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Heads, and, figuratively, en-tire bodies, whether of persons or animals. Spelman
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Vessels of war owned by pri-vate persons, and different from ordinary prlvateers only in size, belng smaller. Beawes, Lex Merc. 230
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I^at. “That you take." The general name for several species of writs, the common characteristic of which is that they require the officer to take the body of the defendant into custody; they are writs of at-tachmeut or arrest
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In Engllsh practice. A judicial writ touching a plea of . lands or tenements, divlded lnto cape magnum, or the grand cape, whlch lay before "appearance to sum* mon the tenant to answer the default, and also over to the demandant; the cape ad valentiam was a species of grand cape, and cape parvum, or petit cape, after appearance or vlew granted, summoning the tenant to answer the default only. Termes de la Ley; 3 Steph. Comm. 606, note
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In old records. A box, cabinet, or repository in which were pre-served the relics of martyrs. Spelman. A small building in which relics were preserv-ed; an oratory or chapel. Id
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Lat Capable of committing crime, or capable of criminal Intent. The phrase describes the condition of one who has sufficient Intelligence and compre-hension to be held criminally responsible for hls deeds
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Competent to transact affairs; having business capacity
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The act of examining and counting the returns of votes cast at a pub-lic election. Bowler v. Elsenhood, 1 S. Dak. 577, 48 N. W. 136, 12 L. R. A. 705; Clark v. Tracy, 95 lowa, 410, 64 N. W. 290; Hudson v. Solomon, 19 Kan. 180; People v. Sausalito, 106 Cal. 500, 39 Pac. 937; In re Stew-art, 24 App, Dlv. 201, 48 N, Y. Supp. 957
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Legal capacity is the attri-bute of a person who can acquire new rights, or transfer rights, or assume duties, accord-ing to the mere dictates of his own will, as manifested in juristic acts, without any restraint or hindrance arising from his status or legal condition
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A district comprising a hun-dred villages; a hundred. A term used in wales in tlie same sense as “hundred” is in England. Cowell; Termes de la Ley
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In feudal law. A species of duty or tribute payable from tenant to lord, usually consisting of produce of the land
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In the civll law. A method of dlviding property held in common by two or more joint owners. See Hayes v. Cuuy, 9 Mart. O. S. (La.) 87
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In English eccleslastlcal law. The primate of all England; the chief ecclesiastical digni-tary in the church. Hls customary privilege is to crown tlie kings and queens of England; while the Archbishop of York bas the prlvl-lege to crown the queen consort, and be her perpetual chaplain. The Archblshop of Can-terbury has also, by £5 Hen. VIII. c. 21, the power of granting dlspensatlons in any case not coutrary to the holy scriptures and the law of God, where the pope used formerly to graut them, which is the foundation of his granting special licenses to marry at any place or time; to hold two llvings, (which must be confirmed under the great seal.) and the like; and on this also is founded the right he exercises of conferring degrees in prejudice of the two universities, wharton.
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In English ecclesiastical law. An ecclesiastical benefice, attachlng to the office of canon. Holthouse
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A chancellor; a scrivener, or notary. A janltor, or one who stood at the door of the court and was ac-customed to carry out the commands of the judges
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A person who offers himself, or is presented by others, to be elected to an office. Derived from the Latin Candidas, (white,) because in Rome it was the custom for those who sought office to clothe themselves in whlte garments
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To obliterate, strike, or cross out; to destroy the effect of an instrument by defacing, obliterating, expunging, or erasing it
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Chancery; the conrt of chancery. Curia canccllaria is also used in the same seuse. See 4 Bl. Comm. 46; Cowell
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