A search-warrant is an order in writing, issued by a justice or other magistrate, in the name of the state, directed to a sheriff, constable, or oth-er officer, commanding hlm to search a speclfled bonse, shop, or other premises, for personal property alleged to have been stolen, or for unlawful goods, and to brlng the same, when found, before the magistrate, and usually also the body of the person occupying the premises, to be dealt with according to law. Pen. Code Cal. S 1523; Code Ala. 1886, 8 4727; Rev. Code Iowa 1880, ft 4629
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Sailors; mariners; persons whose business is navigating ships. Commonly exclusive of the officers of a ship
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In French law. A session; as of some public body
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P. where a party to an ae tion has been ordered to produce a document part of which is either irrelevant to the matters in question or is privileged from' production, he may, by leave of the court, seal up that part, if he makes an affidavit stating that it is irrelevant or privileged. Daniell, Ch. Pr. 1681. The sealing up is generally done by fastening pteces of paper over the part with gum or wafers. Sweet
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In Louisiana. Seals are placed upon the effects of a deceased person, in certain cases, by a public officer, as a method of taking official custody of the succession. See SEALING
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Authenticated by a seal; executed by the affixing of a seal. Also fas-tened up in any manner so as to be closed against inspection of the contents
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By seals, in matters of succession, is understood the placing, by the proper oflicer, of seals on the effects of a succession for the purpose of preserving them, and for the interest of third persons The seals are affixed by order of the judge having jurisdiction. Civ. Code La. art 1075
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Lat. In defending himself; in self-defense. Homlclde commlt-ted se defendendo is excusable
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An impression upon wax, wafer, or some otber tenacious substance capable of being impressed. Allen v. Sullivan R. Co., 32 N. H. 449; Solon v. williamsburgh Sav. Bank, 114 N. Y. 132, 21 N. E. 168; Alt v. Stoker, 127 Mo. 471, 30 S. W. 132; Brad-ford v. Randall, 5 Pick. (Mass.) 497; Osborn v. Kistler, 35 Ohio St. 102; Hopewell Tp. v. Amwell Tp., 6 N. J. Law, 175; Jones v. Logwood, 1 wash. (Va.) 43
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In old English law. Shire; county; the Inhabitants of a county
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In Saxon law. The meeting or court of the shire. This was the most lmportant court in the Saxon polity, having jurisdictlon of both ecclesiastical and secular causes. Its meetlngs were held twice in the year. Its Latin name was “curia comitatis:’
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In old records. Esquire; the same as “armtger." Spelman
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A French coln of gold, coined A. D. 1427, of the value of 3s. 4d
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A scuttle; anythlng of a flat or broad shape llke a shield. Cowell
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In feudal law. A tax or contribution raised by tbose that held lands hy knight’s service, towards furnishing the king’s army, at the rate of one, two or three marks for every knight’s fee
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A writ that anciently lay agalnst tenants by knlgbt’s service to serve in the wars, or send sufficient persons, or pay a certain sum. Fltzh. Nat. Brev. 83
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Lat . In old English law. A searcher or bailiff of a river; a water-bailiff, whose business was to look to the king’s rights, as hls wrecks, hls flotsam, jet-sam, water-strays, royal fishes. Hale, de Jure Mar. pars 1, c. 5
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In old European law. Shafc en or beaten out; threshed, as grain. Spel-man
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An obsolete law so-clety, also called “Serjeants’ Place,” oppo-slte to St. Andrew’s Church, Holborn, London
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In old practice. A species of roll or record, on which the ball on habeas corpus was entered
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A writer; scribe; con-veyancer. one whose occupation is to draw contracts, write deeds and mortgages, and prepare other species of written instruments
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A mark intended to supply the place of a seal, made wlth a pen or other lnstrument of writing. f
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rm has also been applied in the United States to warrants or other like orders drawn on a municipal treasury (Alma v. Guaranty Sav. Bank, 60 Fed. 207, 8 C. C. A. 564.) to certificates showing the holder to be entitled to a certnin portion or allott-ment of public or state lands, (wait v. State Land office Coin’r, 87 Mich. 353, 49 N. W. 600.) and to the fractional paper currency issued by the United States during the pe-riod of the Civil war
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