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A speclal traverse used in an action of trover, alleging that de-feudant was not possessed, at the time of ac-tion brought, of […]

These words, Indorsed on a bill of indictment by a grand jury, have Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A plea of the general Issue in the actions of trespass and case and in criminal prosecutions Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd […]

Longevity and annuity tables compiled from bllls of mortality kept in All Saints parish, Eng-land, in 1735-1780 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd […]

In the civil law. Persons who have the management and care of hospitals for paupers Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

The tongue in whlch several formal proceedings of state in England are stlll carrled on. The lan-guage, having remained the same since […]

In English law. The title of the third of the three klngs-at-arms, or pro-vlncial heralds Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In English law. Twelve acres and a half Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

opposed to exceptional; that state wherein any body most exactly corn-ports in all its parts with the abstract idea thereof, and is […]

Unintelligible matter in a written agreement or will Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Not following up the cause; failure on the part of a plaintiff to continue the prosecution of his suit. An ahandon-ment or […]

The neglect or failure of a person to do some act which he ought to do. The term is not generally used […]

In old ecclesiastical law. A nun. Nonnus, a monk. Spelman Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

UM, or NONAGE. A ninth part of movables which was pald to the clergy on the death of persons in their parish, […]

ES. In the Roman calendar. The fifth and, in March, May, July, and october, the seventh day of the mouth. So called […]

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

Payments made to the church, by those who were tenants of church-farms. The first was a rent or duty for things belonging […]

Lat. He has not usurped. A form of traverse. In an action or proceeding against one alleged to have usurped an office […]

Inability to sue. 5 Bell, App. Cas. 172 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

The vacation between term and term, formerly called the time or days of the king’s peace Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed […]

Neglect to use. Neglect to use a franchise; neglect to exercise an office. 2 Bl. Comm. 153. Neglect or omis-slon to use […]

A plea in a real action, by wbich the defendant asserts, either as to the whole or as to some part of […]

The vacation between two terms of a court Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

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

Lat He did not hold. This is the name of a plea iu bar in re* plevin, by which the plaintiff alleges […]