A measure of length, contalnlng three feet, or thirty-six inches
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Yes and no. Accord-ing to a charter of Athelstan, the people of Ripon were to be believed in all actions or suits upon their yea and nay, without the necessity of taking any oath. Brown
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In old records. Mere assertion and denial, without oath
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A light sea-going vessel, used only for pleasure-trips, racing, etc. webster. See 22 St. at Large, 566 (U. S. Comp. St 1901, p. 2845); Rev. St U. S. §§ 4215-4218 (U. S, Comp. St 1901, p. 2847
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Reception of strangers; hospitality. Enc. Lond
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A punishment among the Greeks answering to our stocks, wharton.
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In Saxon law. worthy; competent; capable. Atheswurthe, worthy of oath; admissible or competent to be sworn. Spelman
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In the civil and old English law. An inn allowed by public II-cense, for the entertainment of strangers, and other guests. Calvin.; Cowell
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In Scotch law. wrong-ful; unlawful; as wrongous imprisonment Ersk. Prin. 4, 4, 25
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An injury; a tort; a violation of right or of law
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The tech-nical name by which a bond is described in pleading. Denton v. Adams, 6 Vt. 40
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one of the two lead-lng divisions of the Roman law, comprising the leges, plcbiscita, senatus-consulta, prin~ cipum placita, magistratuum edicta, aud responsa prudentum. Inst. 1, 2,3
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In Scotch law. .An oflicer nearly corresponding to an attorney at law, in English and American practice, “writers to the signet,” called also “clerks to the signet,” derive thelr name from the drcumstance that they were an
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The expression of ideas by letters visible to the eye. Clason v. Bailey, 14 Johns. (N. Y.) 491. The glvlng an out-ward and objective form to a contract, wlll, etc., by means of letters or marks placed upon paper, parchment, or other material sub-stance
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A writ commanding the return of the goods to the defendant, upon a judgment in his favor in replevin, upon the plalntlfTs de-fault
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In England. An officer of the exchequer whose duty it was to write upon the tallies the letters of tellers’ hills
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In English law. A writ directing an actlon brought in a supe-rior court to be tried in an inferior court or before the under-sherlff, under St. 3 & 4 wm. IV. c. 42. It is now superseded by the county courts act of 1867, c. 142, § 6, by which a defendant, in certain cases, is en-abled to obtain an order that the action be tried in a county court. 3 Steph. Comm. 515, n.; Mozley & whitley
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The name of a writ to be issued against a tenant who has committed waste of the premises. There are several forms of thls writ Fltzh. Nat Brev. 125
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The writ by which, under the English judicature acts, all actions are commenced
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In Engllsh law. The name of a wrlt to remove proceedings on a writ of right patent from the court-baron Into the county court
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(1) A general designation of any form of process issuing from an appellate court and Intended to bring up for review the record or decision of the court below. Burrell v. Burrell, 10 Mass. 222; Hopkins v. Benson, 21 Me. 401; west V. De Moss, 50 La. Ann. 1349, 24 South. 325
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This was a writ which lay for oue who had the rlght of property, against another who had the right of possession and the actual occupation. The writ properly lay only to recover corporeal hereditaments for an estate in fee-simple; but there were other writs, said to be “in the nature of a writ of right,” available for the recovery of incorporeal hereditaments or of lands for a less estate than a fee-simple. Brown
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If, pendlng an action of replevin for a distress, the defendant distrains again for the same rent or service, the owner of the goods is not driven to another action of replevin, but is allowed a writ of recaption, by which he recovers the goods and damages for the defendant's contempt of the process of the law in making a second distress while the matter is sub jndice. woodf. Landl. & Ten. 484
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