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Lat I have him in readiness. The return by the sheriff to a capias ad respondendum, signifying that he has the defendant […]

The sixth day of the last week in Lent, particularly called “Good Friday.” In English law, it is a dies non juridicus […]

In the civil law. A conventicle, or unlawful meeting Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In tbe civU law Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Fr. ft Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In the civil law. Goods brought by wife to husband over and above her dowry Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

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

For two lines of street railway to be “parallel,” within the meaning of a statute, it may not be necessary that the […]

Above; upwards. That which is superior; usually applied to the highest lord of the fee of lands, tenements, or hereditaments, as distinguished […]

or PARAGIUM. An eqaal-ity of blood or dignity, but more especially of land, in the partition of an lnheritance between co-heirs: more […]

A part or section of a statute, pleading, affidavit, etc., which con-tains one article, the sense of which is com-plete. McClellan v. […]

Error in the computation of time Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

The teuure between par-teeners, viz., that which the youngest owes to the eldest without homage or service. Domesday Source: Black’s Law Dictionary […]

A dramatic performance in which gestures take the place of words. See 3 C. B. 871 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed […]

A written or printed document or Instrument, A document filed or intro-duced in evidence in a suit at law, as, ia the […]

A common of pannage is the right of feeding swine on mast aud acorns at certain seasons in a commonable wood or […]

The act of impanei-ing a jury Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

The roll or slip of parchment returned by the sheriff in obedience to a venire facias, containing the names of the per-sons […]

IS. Lat in old Engllsh law. Bread; loaf; a loaf. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 9 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In old records. A brewer Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

An ale-wife; a woman that both brewed arid sold ale and beer Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

The name given in Pennsylvania to the publication, in pam-phlet or book form, containing the acts pass-ed by the state legislature at […]

A compilation of Roman law, consisting of selected pussages from the writings of the most authoritative of the older jurists, methodically arranged, […]

A name given to the English statute 19 & 20 Vlct c. 16, enabling a person accused of a crime committed out […]

A small book, bound in paper covers, usually printed in the octavo form, and stitched. See U. .S. v. Chase, 135 U. […]