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A writ commanding the sheriff to bring up the persons of jurors, and, if need were, to distrain them of their lands […]

Lat. (You have the body.) The name given to a variety of writs, (of which these were anciently the em-phatlc words,) havlng […]

Fetters or shackles for the legs Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

r GYNSGOORAGY. Gov-ernment by a woman; a state in whlch women are legally capable of the supreme command; e. g., in Great […]

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

The name of a court which was held every three weeks in the llberty or hundred of Pathbew in warwlck. Jacob Source: […]

Sax. Compensation for fraud or trespass. Cowell Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A place of execution. Jacob Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

walf, or walved; that whlch has been stolen and afterwards dropped in the hlghway for fear of a dlscovery. Cowell Source: Black’s […]

The dlmlnudve of a sewer. Callis, Sew. (80,) 100. In modern law, an open ditch or conduit designed to allow the passage […]

Maid’s fee. A Brltlsh word signifying a customary fine payable to lords of some manors on marriage of the tenant’s daughters, or […]

wears. Jacob Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Jutes; one of the three natlons who migrated from Germany to Britain at an early perlod. According to Spelman, they established themselves […]

The heraldic name of the color usually called “red.” The word is derlved from the Arabic word “pule,” a rose, and was […]

Lat. Properly a whirlpool, but in old English law and conveyanclng, a deep plt filled wlth water, distlngulshed from “stagnum,” whlch was […]

A coin formerly issued by the English mint, but all these coins were called in in the time of wm. IV. The […]

The first of August, being the day of St. Peter ad Vincula Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In criminal law. That quality whlch imparts criminality to a motive or act, and renders the person amenable to punislj,-ment by the […]

Havlng committed a crime or tort; the word used by a prisoner In plead-lng to an indictment when he confesses the crime […]

The hall or place of meeting of a guild, or gild Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

An instrument for decap-itation, used in France for the infliction of the death penalty on convicted criminals, consisting, essentially, of a heavy […]

The name of a treatise on maritime law, by an unknown author, supposed to have been written about 1671 at Rouen, and […]

A voluntary association of persons pursuing the same trade, art, profession, or business, such as printers, goldsmiths, wool merchants, etc., united under […]

In old English law. That which was given for safe conduct through a strange territory, or another’s territory. Cowell Source: Black’s Law […]

An iron or steel plate to he attached to a rail for the pnrpose ot guldlng to their place on the rail […]