Lat. If he ac-knowledge. In old practice. A writ which lay for a creditor against his debtor for money numbered (pecunia numerata) or counted; that is, a specific sum of money, which the debtor had acknowledged in the county court, to owe him, as received in pecuniis numerate. Cowell
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Lat in Scotch practice. Ro it is subscribed. Formal words at the end of depositions, Immediately pre-ceding the signature. 1 How. State Tr. 1379
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Lat. In old practlce. If before. Formal words in the old writs for summoning juries. Fleta, 1. 2, c. 65, | 12
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Lat in the civil law. If any one. Formal words in the prsetorian edicts. The words “quis,” though masculine in form was held to include women. Dig. 50, 16, L
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Lat in Engllsh practice. A writ of association of justices where-by, lf all in commission cannot meet at the day assigned, It is allowed that two or more may proceed with the business. Cowell: Fitzh. Nat. Brev. Ill C
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Lat If it appears. In Roman law. words used in the formula by whlch the prsetor appolnted a judge, and instructed hlm how to.decide the cause
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Lat. If it be so. Emphatic words in the old wrlt of mandamus to a judge, commanding him, if the fact alleged be truly stated, (si ita est.) to affix his seal to a bill of exceptions. Ex parte Crane. 5 Peb 192, 8 L. Ed. 92
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Lat If it happen. Words of condition in old conveyances. 10 Coke, 42a
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Lat. The conclusion of a plea to an action when the defendant de-mands judgment, lf the plaintiff ought to have hls action, etc. obsolete
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Lat If he knows anything; if he is not altogether devoid of reason
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The office of sheriff; the period of that office
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A “pettifogging shyster" is an unscrupulous practitioner who disgraces his profession by doing mean work, and re-sorts to sharp practice to do it Bailey ▼. Kalamazoo Pub. Co., 40 Mich. 231. See, also, Grlbble v. Pioneer Press Co., 84 Minn. 342, 25 N. W. 710
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Although the words "show" and “indicate" are sometimes interchangeable in popular use, they are not always so. To “show" is to make apparent or clear by evi-dence; to prove; while an “lndlcation" may be merely a symptom; that which points to or gives dlrectlon to the mind. Coyle ▼. Com., 104 Pa. 133
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To show cause against a rule nisi, an order, decree, execution, etc., is to appear as directed, and present to the court such reasons and considerations as one has to offer why it should not be con-firmed, take effect, be executed, or as the case may be
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A process, author-ized in some of the states, to be issued against an absconding, fraudulent, or non-resident debtor, which is returnable wlthln a less number of days than an ordinary writ of summons
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An old custom of the city of Exeter. A mode of foreclosing the right of a tenant by the chief lord of the fee, in cases of non-payment of rent Cowell
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A term applied collo-quially, but wlthout much precision, to a lease for a short term, (as a month or a year,) as dlstlngulshed from one running for a long period
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In practice. Notice of less than the ordinary time; generally of half that time. 2 Tldd, Pr. 757
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A cause which is not likely to occupy a great portion of the time of the court, and which may be entered on the list of “short causes,’’ upon the applica-tion of one of the parties, and will then be heard more speedily than it would be In its regular order. Thls practice obtains in the English chancery and in some of the American states
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A custom of bankers of entering on the customer’s pass-book the amount of notes deposited for collection, in such a manner that the amount is not car-ried to the latter’s general balance until the notes are pald. See Glles v. Perkins, 9 East, 12; Blaine v. Bourne, 11 R. I. 121. 23 Am. Rep. 429
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Land on the margin of the sea, or a lake or rlver
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In Mohammedan law. Pre-emptlon, or a power of possessing property which has been sold, by paying a sum equal to that paid by the purchaser, whnrtou
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