Lat Lost; the lost

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A court of high powers and extensive jurisdiction, existing ih most of the states. In some it is the offldal style of the chief appellate court or court of last resort In others (as New Jersey and New York) the supreme court is a court of general original jurisdiction, possessing also (in New York) some appellate jurisdiction, but, not the court of last resort

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The court formed by the English judicature act, 1873, (as modified by the judicature act, 1875, the appellate jurisdiction act, 1876, and the judicature acts of 1877, 1879, and 1881,) in substitution for the various su-Iierlor courts of law, equity, admiralty, pro* bate, and divorce, existing when the act was passed, including the court of appeal in chan-cery and bankruptcy, and the exchequer chamber. It consists of two permanent di-vislons. viz., a court of original jurisdiction, called the “high court of justice," and a court of appellate jurisdiction, called the “court of appeal.” Its title of “supreme" is now a misnomer, ns the superior appellate jurisdiction of the house of lords and privy council, which was originally intended to be transferred to it, has been allowed to remain. Sweet

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Lat Above; upon. This word occurring by itself in a book refers the reader to a previous part of the book, like “ante;” it is also the Initial word of several Latin phrases

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The state of being su-preme, or in the highest statlon of power; paramount authority; soverelgnty; sover-eign power

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In English law. All bills which relate to the pub-llc income or expenditure must originate with the house of commons, and all bills au-thorizing expenditure of the public money are based upon resolutions moved in a com-mittee of supply, which is always a committee of the whole house, wharton

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Lat Suppression or concealment of the truth. “It is a* rule of equity, as well as of law, that a sup-pressio veri is equivalent to a suggestio falsi; and where either the suppression of the truth or the suggestion of what is false can he proved, in a fact material to the contract, the party injured may have relief against the contract” Fleming v. Slocum, 18 Johns. (N. Y.) 405, 9 Am. Dec. 224

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In English law. The name of a writ issuing out of the kiug’s bench or chancery for taking sureties of the peace. It is commonly directed to the justices of the peace, when they are averse to acting in the affair in thelr judicial capacity. 4 Bl. Comm. 253

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Per-sons appointed to levy the land-tax in Scot-land, and to cause a valuation roll to be an-nually made up, and to perform other duties in thelr respective countles. BeU

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The actor in, or party preferring, a petitlon of rlght

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LaL In the civil law. A petition for pardon of a first ofTense; aiso a petition for reversal of judgment: also equivalent to “duplicalio,’’ which corresponds to the common law rejoinder. Calvin

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In

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Something added to supply defects in the thing to which it is added, or in aid of which it is made

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In Engllsh law. when lands, tenements, rents, goods, or chattels are given, secured, or appointed for and towards the maintenance of a priest or chaplain to say mass, for the maintenance of a priest or other man to pray for tbe sonl of any dead man in euch a church or else* where, to have and maintain perpetual obits, lamps, torches, etc., to be used at certaln tlmes to help to save the souls of men out of purgatory,—ln such cases the king, by force of several statutes, is authorlzed to direct and appoint all such uses to such purposee as are truly charitable. Bac. Abr. “Charitable Uses." See Methodist Church v. Remington, 1 watts (Pa.) 225, 26 Am. Dec. 61; Harrison v. Brophy, 59 Kan. 1, 51 Fac. 883, 40 L. R. A. 721

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A surveyor or overseer; a highway ofiicer. Also, in some states, the chief officer of a town; oue of a board of county officers

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To annul; to stay; to suspend. Thus, it is said that the proceed-ings of outlawry may be superseded by the entry of appearance before the return of the exigent, or that the court would supersede a fiat in bankruptcy, if found to have been Improperly issued. Brown

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Lat in practice. A writ ordering the suspension or superseding of another writ prevlously issued. It directs the officer to whom it is Issued to refrain from executing or acting under another writ which is in his hands or may come to him

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Lat. Surcharging a common; i. c., putting lu beasts of a num

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In old English law. overplus; surplus; residue or balance. Bract foL 801; Spelman

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Higher; more elevated in rank or office. Possessing larger power. Entitled to command, influence, or control over another

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In Scotch law. The dominium directum of lands, without the profit 1 Forb. Inst. pt. 2, p. 97

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The lnstitutlon of one in an office to which another has been

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In

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In medical Juris-prodence. The formation of a fcetus as the result of an impregnation occurring after another impregnation, but before the birth of the offspring produced by it webster

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Lat. In the civU law. A specles of obliteration. Dig. 28, 4, 1, 1

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