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In English ec-tfeslastical law. A right of the crown to name to the first prebend that becomes va-cant after the accession of […]

A constable’s or police dis-trict. The immediate neighborhood of a palace or court. A poll-diatrlct. See Union Pac. Ry. Co. v. Ryan, […]

Lat. In Roman law. Prayers, one of the names of an application to the emperor. Tayl. Civil Law, 230 Source: Black's Law […]

In Enclisb and Amerioan law. An order or direction, emanating from authority, to an officer or body of officers, commanding him or […]

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

The continuance of a suit by consent of both parties. Cowell Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

An adjudged case or de-clslon of a court of Justice, considered as furnishing an example or authority for an identical or similar […]

Such os must happen or be performed before an estate can vest or be enlarged. See Conditiok Pbecedent Source: Black's Law Dictionary […]

Having the nature of prayer, request, or entreaty; conveying or embodying a recommendation or advlce or Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed […]

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

Liable to be returned or rendered up at the mere demand or re-quest of another; hence held or retained only on sufferance […]

Lat. in the civil law. A convention whereby one allows another the use of a thing or the exercise of a right […]

An ecclesiastical per-son serving on the staff of a cathedral, and receiving a stated allowance or stipend from the income or endowment […]

The right of being heard before another. A privilege belonging to the English bar, the members of wbicb are entitled to be […]

In English ecclesiastical law. A stipend granted in cathedral church-es; also, but Improperly, a prebendary. A simple prebend is merely a revenue; […]

A clause at the beginning of a constitution or statute explanatory of the reasons for its enactment and the ob-jects sought to […]

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

OF PROCESS is a petition with which a bill in equity used to conclude, to the effect that a writ of subpoena […]

Lat. Use; practice Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In old English practice. To call upon for assistance. In real actions, the tenant might pray in aid or call for assistance […]

An extensive tract of level or rolling land, destitute of trees, covered with coarse grass, and usually characterized by a deep, fertile […]

A license for the master of a ship to traffic in the ports of a given country, or with the inhabitants of […]

In Frenob law. An expression used to designate those ordinances which concern the most important objects of the civil or ecclesiastical ad-ministration. […]

In Spanish colonial law. An order emanating from the sov Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Lat in the civil law. one who betrays hls trust, or is unfaithful to hls trust An advocate who aids the opposite […]