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In old pleading. Great beasts, as horses, oxen, etc Cro. Jac Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

The great hundred, or six score, wharton Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In old Englisb law. The grand assize. Glanv. lib. 2, cc. 11, 12 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

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

A public officer belonging to the civil organization of the state, and invested with powers and functions which may be either judicial, […]

Lat in the clvll law. A magistrate. Calvln. A judlclal officer who had the power of hearlng and determin-lng causes, but whose […]

This term may have a more or less extensive signification according to the use and connection in which it occurs. In its […]

In old English practice. Magisterial writs; writs adapt-ed to special cases, and so called from being Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed […]

Lat. In Englisb law. A master or ruler; a person who has attained to some eminent degree in science. Cowell Source: Black’s […]

Relating or pertaining to the character, office, powers, or duties of a magistrate or of the magistracy Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd […]

In English statutes, witch-craft and sorcery Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Lat. More; more fully; more in number; rather Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Famous; great; noted; as z2?l-mere, all famous. Gibs. Camd Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Timber; wood suitable tor building purposes Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In Saxon law. Kin-dred; family Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In Saxon law. A recompense or satisfaction for the slaying or mur-der of a kinsman. Spelman Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed […]

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

Certain regulations prescribed for the government of the Madras presidency. Mozley & whltley Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

where a writ of seire facias has been actually served upon a de-fendant, the proper return is that its con-tents have been […]

An insane persou, partlcu-larly one suffering from mania in any of its forms. Said to be inapplicable to idiots (Com. v. Haskell, […]

In old European law. To. wound. Spelman. Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A term used to designate the idea or subject to which is confined the derangement of the mental faculties of one suffering […]

In old Engllsh law. A barn or granary open at the top; a rlck or stack of corn. Spelman Source: Black’s Law […]

L. Lat in old European law. A murderer Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In patent law. Any contrivance used to regulate or augment force or motlon; more properly, a complex structure, consisting of a combination, […]