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Under the municipal organization of the state of New Jersey, each county has a board of officers, called by this name, composed […]

In Hindu law. A fourth, a fourth part of the sum in litigation. The “Mahratta chout” is a fourth of the revenues […]

A rlght to personal things of whlch the owner has not the possession, but merely a right of action for thelr possession. […]

A thing in possession, as distinguished from a thing in action. Sterling v. Sims, 72 Ga. 53; Vaw-ter v. Griffin, 40 Ind. […]

A word mentioned in 9 Hen. VI. c. 65, by the sense of which it was in those days a klnd of […]

Fr. A thing; an article of prop-erty. A chose is .a chattel personal, (WU-liams, Pers. Prop. 4.) and is either in posses-sion […]

In Roman law. A handwriting; that which was written with a person’s own hand. An obligation which a person wrote or subscribed […]

In English law. The name of a court anciently held as a court of honor merely, before the earl-mar-shal, and as a […]

In old English law Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In Roman law. writ* ings emanating from a single party, the debtor Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In old English law. A tax upon trade; a toll imposed upou trattic. or upon goods brought to a pluoe to be […]

In Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A toll for passing on a way through a forest; called in the civil law “pedagium.” Cowell Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd […]

The way by which the king and all hls subjects and all under his protection have a right to pass, though the […]

In Engllsh law. The stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds is a nominal ofiice in the gift of the crown, usually accepted by […]

In old English law. A road, way, highway. It is either the king's highway (chiminus regis) or a private way. The first […]

This word has two meanings in law: (1) In the law of the domestic relations, nnd as to descent and distribution, it […]

In Saxon law. The right which a lord had of taking a fine of his bond-woman gotten wlth child without his license. […]

Principal; leading; head; emi-nent in power or importance; the most im-portant or valuable of several Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Tn feudal law. A small rent paid to the lord paramount Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A homestead or hoinesfall which is accessory to a house Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Swlndllng; shrewd cunning. The use of tricks and artifice Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

An agreement or corn-position ; an end or order set down between a creditor or debtor; an Indirect gain in point of […]

In old records. Pieces of ground, or heads at the end of plowed lands. Cowell Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A sum of money paid by vil-lelns to their lords in acknowledgment of their bondage Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)