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The fundamental law Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Lat. By word of mouth; orally. Pleading was anciently carried on ore tenus, at the bar of the court. 3 Bl. Comm. […]

In Saxon law. The price or value of a beast A payment for a beast. The payment or forfeiture of a beast. […]

Fr. In French law, an ordinance; an order of a court; a complla-tion or systematized body of law relating to a particular […]

A llcense or right to dig and tnke ore from land. Ege v. Kille, 84 Pa. 340 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd […]

In old English law. Those of the religious who deserted thelr houses, and, throwing off the habits, renounced their particular order in […]

Lat. That rule which monks were obliged to observe, order; regular succession. An order of a court Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd […]

In ecclesiastical law. The holy orders of priest, deacon, and subdeacon, any of which qualified for presentation and admission to an ecclesiastical […]

Lat. In the clvll law. The benefit or privilege of order; the prlvilege whlch a surety for a debtor had of requlrlng […]

In old practice. It is ordered. The Initial words of rules of court when entered in Latin Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd […]

A general chapter or other solemn convention of the religious of a particular order Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Lat The law of Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A writ that lay against a servant for leaving his master contrary to the ordinance of St. 23 & 24 Edw. III. […]

A rule established by authority; a permanent rale of action; a Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

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

The directions as to the course and purpose of a voyage given by the owner of the vessel to the captain or […]

Any member of the English house of commons who wishes to propose any question, or to “move the house,” as it is […]

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

In a general sense. A man-date, precept; a command or direction aa-thorltatively given; a rule or regulation Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd […]

In old English law. The rlght of administering oaths and adjudging trials by ordeal within a preclnct or liberty. Cow-ell Source: Black’s […]

In Spanlsh law. An order emanating from the sovereign, and differing from a cedula only in form and in the mode of […]

To institute or establish; to make an ordinance; to enact a constitution or law. Kepner v. Comm., 40 Pa. 124; U. S. […]

or ORDELFE. A liberty whereby a man claims the ore found in his own land; also, the ore lying under land. Cowell […]

Deprivation of one’s pa-rents or children, or prlva’tlon in general. Little used Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Lat in Ro Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)