Lat Forthwith; immediately. In old English law, this term meant el-ther “at once,” or “within a legal time,” i. e., such time as permitted the legal and regular performance of the act in question
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Exhibiting, or listing in their order, the items which make up an account
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In a general sense, an allegation; a declaration of matters of fact. The term has come to be used of a variety of formal narratives of facts, required by law hi various jurisdictions as the foundation of judicial or official proceedings
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A freeholder and farmer in Cumberland, wharton
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A narrative of the facts upon which the plaintiff relies, sub-stituted for a more formal declaration, in suits in the inferior courts. The phrase is used In New Jersey
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Settled; closed. An account stated means an account settled, and at an end. Pull. Acc’ts, 33. “In order to consti-tute an account stated, there must be a statement of some certaln amount of money being due, wbich must be made either to the party himself or to some agent of his.” 5 Mees. ft W. 607
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Formerly, when a master in chancery was directed by the court of chancery to make an inquiry or investiga-tion lnto any matter arlslng out of a suit, and which could not conveniently be brought before the court ltself, each party in the suit carried in before the master a statement showing how the party bringing it iu repre-sented the matter in question to he; and this statement was technically termed a “state of facts,” and formed the ground upon which the evidence was received, the evidence be-ing, in fact, brought by one party or the other, to prove hls own or disprove hls op-ponent’s state of facts. And so now, a state of facts means the stntement made by any one of his version of the facts. Brown
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In English lunacy practice, when a person has beeu found a lunatic, the next step is to submit to the master a scheme called a “state of facts and proposal," showing what is the position in life, property, aqd Income of the lunatic, who are his next of kin and heir at law, who are proposed as his committees, and what annual sum is proposed to be allowed for his maintenance, etc. From the state of facts and the evidence adduced in support of it, the master frames bis report Elmer, Lun. 22; Pope, Lun. 79; Sweet
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Lat. To appear before a tribunal, either as plaintiff or de-fendant
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or STARRA. The old term for contract or obligation among the Jews, be-ing a corruption from the Hebrew word “sftefar,” a covenant By an ordinance of Richard I., no starr was allowed to be valid, unless deposited in one of certain repositories established by law, the most considerable of which was in the king's exchequer at westmiuster ; and Blackstone conjectures that the room in which these chests were kept was thence called the “starr-chamber.” 4 Bl. Comm. 266, 267, note a
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In maritime law. The right-hand side of a vessel when the observe? faces forward. “Starboard tack," the course of vessel when she has the wind on her star-board bow. Burrows v. Gower (D. C.) 119 Fed. 617
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Lat. To stand by de-cided cases; to uphold precedents; to main-tain former adjudications. 1 Kent, Comm. 477
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A district which in-cludes all parts of Devon and Cornwall where some tin work is situate and in actual opera-tion. The tin miners of the stannaries have certain peculiar customs and privileges
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In English law. A mart or market. A place where the buylng and sell-lug of wool, lead, leather, and other artlcles were put under certain terms. 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, 393
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An impression made by public authority, in pursuance of law, upon paper or parchment, upon which certain legal pro-ceedings, conveyances, or contracts are required to be written, and for which a tax or duty is exacted
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In Scotch law. A resting place; a field or place adjoining a drove-road, for resting and refreshing sheep and cattle on thelr Journey. 7 6eli, App. Cas. 53, 57, 58
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The liberty or right of pitching or erecting stalls in fairs or markets, or the money paid for the same. 1 Steph. Comm. 664
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Ih Saxon law. The pratfcctus stabuli, now master of the horse. Sometimes one who has a stall in a fair or market
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In old English law. A pool, or pond. Co. Lltt 5a; Johnson v. Rayner, 6 Gray (Mass.) 110
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A deposit made to answer an event, as on a wager. See Harris v. white, 81 N. Y. 539; Porter v. Day, 71 wis. 296, 37 N. W. 259; Mohr v. Miesen, 47 Minn. 228, 49 N. W. 862
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Lat. In the civil law. A stable-keeper. Dlg. 4, 9, 4, 1
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