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Fr. In Freuch marine law. The contract of bottomry. Drd, Mar. llv. 3, tlt 5 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In England. An officer of the royal household, who has charge of the klng’s w’ardrobe Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Formerly an officer belonging to the royal household. Jacoh Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A liqnor saloon, bar-room, or dram-shop; a place where intoxi-cating liquor is sold to be drunk on the premises. See Leesburg v. […]

In old records. A deep hoI-low or pit; a bog or miry place. Cowell Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

An English sllver coin (value four pence) Issued from the fourteenth to the seventeenth century. See Reg. v. Con-nell, 1 Car. & […]

In old English law. A mer-chant or trader who engrossed all vendible merchandise; an engrosser. St. 37 Edw. III. c. 5. See […]

Aggrieved. 3 East, 22 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In Saxon law. Peace; protection Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

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In old records. The sea shore, sand, or heach. 2 Mon. Angl. 625; Cowell Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

The statute 10 Geo. III. c. 16, by which the jurisdiction over par-11a men tary election petitions was transferred from the whole […]

In Engllsh law. A customary fine due from a copyhold tenant on Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In Spanish law. A guild; an association of workmen, artificers, or mer-chants following the same trade or business; designed to protect and […]

Lat The bosom or breast; hence, derivatively, safeguard or protection. In English law, an estate which is in abey-ance is said to […]

The code or collection of constitutions made by the Roman jurist Gregorius. See Codex Gregorianus Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

The time from which the Gregorian calendar or computation dates; i. e., from the year 1582 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed […]

In forest law. The same as vert, (q. v.) Termes de la Ley Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In French law. Regis-trars, or cierks of the courts. They are officials attached to the courts to assist the Judg-es in their […]

In English law. The name of the estreats in the exchequer, delivered to the sheriff under the seal of that court which […]

The popular and almost exclusive name applied to all United States treasury Issues. It is not applied to any oth-er species of […]

In English law. A board or court of justice held in the counting-house of the king’s (or queen’s) household, and composed of […]

A feudal custom in the manor of writtel, in Essex, where every tenant whose front door opens to Greenbury shall pay a […]

Satisfaction for an offense com-mitted or injury done. Cowell Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A colloquial ex-pression to signify a time indefinitely remote, there heing no *such division of time known to the Greeks Source: Black’s […]