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A writ by which one is called to justify a complaint of a trespass made to the king himself, before the king […]

A Jail which used to be appropriated to the debtors and crimi-nals confined under process or by authority of the superior courts […]

L. Lat. An old writ which lay where a rent-charge or other rent which was not rent service was granted by fine […]

A woman who possesses the soverelgnty and royal power in a country under a monarchical form of government The wife of a […]

A fund created by a charter of Queen Anne, (con-firmed by St 2 Ann. c. 11,) for the augmenta-tion of poor livings, […]

L. Fr. whose estate. A term used in pleading, particularly in claiming prescrlptlon, by whlch it is alleged that the plalntlff and […]

A worthless woman; a strum-pet. obsolete Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A wharf for the loading or un-loading of goods carried in ships. This word is sometimes spelled “key Source: Black's Law Dictionary […]

L. Fr. whlch is the same. A term used in actions of trespass, etc. See Quje est Eadbx Source: Black's Law Dictionary […]

Lat Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In Roman law. Mag-tetrates who had the care and inspection of roads. Dig. 1, 2, 3, 30 Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd […]

Let As lf; as it were; anal-ogous to. This term is used in legal phrase Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

See Cousin Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Lat on the Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

To overthrow; to abate; to an-nul; to make void. Spelman; 3 Bl. Comm. 303; Crawford v. Stewart, 38 Pa. 34; Hoi-land v. […]

A system of courts in Kentucky possessing a limited orig-lnal jurisdictlon in clvll cases and appellate jurisdlction from justices of the peace […]

In the Spanish and French west Indies, a quadroon, that is, a person one of whose parents was white and the other […]

Tbe act of Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Quartering of crim-lnals Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In Enclisb law. A criminal court held before two or more justlces of the peace, (one of whom must be of the […]

In English criminal law. The dlviding a criminal's body into quarters, after execution. A part of the punishment of high treason. 4 […]

In Roman law. That portion of a testator’s estate whlch, by the Falcidian law, was required to be left to the heir, […]

The fourth part of any-thlng. especlally of a year. Also a length of four inches. In England, a measure of corn, generally […]

In mining law. An open excavation where the works* are visible at the surface; a place or pit where stone, slate, marble, […]

A llquid measure, containing* one-fourth part of a gallon Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)