A writ which lay for the arrest of one who had taken the
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Concerning the property of religious persons carried away. The title of the statute 35 Edward I. passed to check the abuses of clerical possessions, oue of which was the waste they suffered by being drained into foreign countries. 2 Reeve. Eng. Law. 157; 2 lost. 580.
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(Lat of arbitration had.) A writ formerly used when an action was brought for a cause which had been settled by arbitration, wats. Arb. 256
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An old writ which lay to seize goods in the hands of a party during the pendency of a suit, to prevent their be-ing made away with. Reg. orig. 126b
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of the bis-sextile or leap year. The title of a statute passed in the twenty-first year of Henry III., which in fact, however, is nothing more than a sort of writ or direction to the justices of the bench. Instructing them how the extraor-dlnary day in the leap year was to be reckoned in cases where persons had a day to appear at the distance of a year, as on the essoin de malo lecti, and the like. It was thereby directed that the additional day should, together with that which went be-fore, be reckoned only as one, and so, of course, within the preceding year. 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 266
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For a yearly rent. A writ to recover an annuity, no mat-ter how payable, in goods or money. 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, 258
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TU. Lat Concerning bribery. A phrase descriptlve of the subject-matter of several of tbe Roman laws; as the Lex Aufldia, the Lex Pompcia. the Lex Tullia, and others. See Ambitus
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of more abundant or especial grace. Townsh. PL 18
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About gamesters. The name of a title in the Pandects. Dig. 11, 5
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of high and low. A phrase anciently used to denote the absolute submission of all differences to arbitfa-tion. CowelL
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In Roman law. one of the lnnomlnate contracts, and, in effect, a sale of land or goods at a price fixed, (aesti-mato,) and guarantied by some third party, who undertook to find a purchaser
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For prov-ing age. A writ which formerly lay to sum-mon a jury in order to determine the age of the heir of a tenant in capite who claimed his estate as heing of full age. Fitzh. Nat Brev. 257; Reg. orig. 294
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L. Lat with or by the advice of our council. A phrase used in tbe old writs of summons to parliament Crabb, Eng. Law, 240
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In equity. De jure stricto, nihil possum vendicare, de aquitate tumen, nullo mo’do hoc obtinet; in strict law, I can claim nothing, bnt in equity this by no means obtains. Fleta, lib. 8, c. 2, t 10
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of (about) acquiring the ownership of things. Dig. 41, 1; Bract, lib. 2, fol. 8b.
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of admeas-urement Thus, de admensuratione dotis was a writ for the admeasurement of dower, and de admensuratione pastura was a writ for the admeasurement of pasture
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An arbitrator, umpire, or elected judge. Cowell
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In old Engllsh law. A term applied to land, and signifying as much ar-able ground aa could be plowed up in one day’s work. Cowell
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That portion of time be-fore sunrise, and after sunBet, which is ac-counted part of the day, (as distinguished from night,) in defining the offense of bur-glary. 4 Bl. Comm. 224; Cro. Jac. 106
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A tradesman’s account book; a book in which all the occurrences of the day are set down. It is usually a book of original entries
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or DAY-WRIT. In Rng-lish law. A permission granted to a prisoner to go out of prison, for the purpose of trans-acting his business, as to hear a case ln
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A period of time consisting, of twenty-four hoars and including the solar
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