Lat in Roman law. An officer correspondlng in some respects to a notary. His business was to draw legal instruments, (contracts, wills, etc.,) and witness their execution. Calvin

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In old records. A public inn, or house of entertainment Cow-eil

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A short gown; a herald’s coat; a surcoat

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Lat in Roman law. A tab-let Used in voting, and in giving the ver-dict of juries; aud, when written upon, com-monly translated “ballot." The laws whlch introduced and regulated the mode of voting by ballot were called “leges tObeUaria." Cal-vin.; 1 Kent, Comm. 232, note

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In medical jurisprudence. A loathsome venereal disease (vulgarly called “the pox”) of pecullar virulence, infectious by dlrect contact, capable of hereditary trans-mission, and the fruitful source of various other diseases and, directly or indirectly, of Insanity

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E. An abbreviation of "Tempore Regis Edwardi" (in the time of King Edward,) of common occurrence in Domesday, when the valuation of manors, as it was in the time of Edward the Confessor, is recounted. Cowell

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A tribute or payment in money pald to the bishop or archdeacon hy the inferior clergy, at the Easter visitation

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L. Lat. Syn-ods-men (corrupted into sidesmen) were the urban and rural deans, now the church-wardens

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The name given by the canonists to deeds of which both partB were written on the 6ame piece of parchment, with some word or letters of the alphabet written between them, through which the parchment was cut in such a manner as to leave half the word on one part and half on the other. It thus corresponded to the chirograph or in-denture of the common law. 2 Bl. Comm 295, 296

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A meeting or assembly of ecclesiastical persons concerning religion; belng the same thing, in Greek, as convocation in Latln. There are four klnds: (1) A general or unlversal synod or council, where -bishops of all nations meet; (2) a national synod of the clergy of one nation only; (3) a provin-dal synod, where eccleslastlcal persons of a province only assemble, being now what is called the “convocatlon;” (4) a diocesan syn-od, of those of one diocese. See Com. v. Green, 4 whart (Pa.) 560; Groesbeeck ▼. Dunscomh, 41 How. Prac. (N. Y.) 344

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A university committee. A combination of persons or firms nnited for the puriwse of enterprises too large for iridi-vlduals to undertake; or a group of financiers who buy up the shares of a company in order to sell them at a profit by creating a scarcity*. Mozley A whitley

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one chosen by a college, mh-nicipality, etc., to defend its cause. Calvin

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To cut short, or pro-nounce things so as not to be understood. Cowell

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In tbe oivil law. An advocate or patron; a burgess or recorder; an agent or attorney who acts for a corporation or university; an actor or procurator; an assignee, wharton. See Minnesota L. & T. Co. v. Beebe, 40 Mlnn. 7, 41 N. W. 232, 2 L. R. A. 418; Mobile & O. R. Co. v. whitney, 39 Ala. 471

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D’S INN. Formerly an ton of chancery

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The art or cunning rightly to form and make written iustru-ments. It is either judicial or extrajudicial; the latter being wholly occupied with such instruments as concern matters not yet judi-dally in controversy, such as instruments of agreements or contracts, and testaments or last wills, wharton

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The constructive delivery of the subject-matter of a sale, where it is cumbersome or inaccessible, by the actual delivery of some article which ie conventionally accepted as the symbol or rep* resentative of it, or which renders access to it possible, or which is evidence of the pur* chaser’s title to it

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In logic. The full logic-al form of a single argument It conslsts of three propositions, (two premises nnd the conclusion,) and these contain three terms, of which the two occurring in the conclusion are brought together in the premises by being referred to a common class

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Lat. In ecclesiastical law. wood of any klnd whlch was kept on purpose to be cut, and which, being cut, grew again from the stump or root Lynd. Prov. 190; 4 Reeve, Eng. Law, 90

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A Saxon form of greet-ing, meaning peace and safety

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A head-note; a note preflx-ed to the report of an adjudged case, containing an epitome or brief statement of the rulings of the court upon the point or points decided In the case. See Koonce ▼. Doolittle, 48 W. Va. 592, 37 S. B. 645

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In old English law. Persons who, by mutual oaths, covenant to share in each, other’s fortunes

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Certain officers in the English court of chan-cery, whose duties were to keep the records, make copies of pleadings, etc. Their oflices were abolished by St. 5 & 6 Vict. c. 103.

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Cheating and defrauding grossly with deliberate artifice, wyatt v. Ayres, 2 Port. (Ala.) 157; Forrest v. Hanson, 9 Fed. Cas. 456; Thorpe v. State, 40 Tex. Cr. R. 346, 50 S. W. 383; Chase v. whitlock, 3 Hill (N. Y.) 140; Stevenson v. Hayden, 2 Mass. 408

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