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Lat. I have taken. This word was of frequent use in the returns of sheriffs when they were made in Latin, and […]

In old English law. The stumps or roots of trees which remain in the ground after the trees are felled. Fleta, llb. […]

In Roman law. The name of an important court consisting of a body of one hundred and five judges, it was made […]

In Anglo Saxon law. The free-men were dlvlded into tWo classes,—thanes nnd ceorls. The thanes were the proprietors of the soil, which […]

The central ofiice of the supreme court of judicature in England is the office established in pursuance of the recommendation of the […]

This word is used to express the system of government pre-vailing in a country where the management of local matters is in […]

The name of a denomination of Freuch money, being the one-hundredth part of a franc Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

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

The principal inhabitants of a centena, or district composed of different villages, originally in number a hundred, but afterwards only called by […]

In Roman iaw. The hun-dredth part Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A coin of the United States, the least in value of those now minted. It is the one-hundreth part of a dollar. […]

A hundred. A district or division containing originally a hundred free-men, established among the Goths, Germans, Franks, and Lombards, for military and […]

The official counting or enu-meration of the people of a state or nation Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In English law. The annual revenue or income of the crown Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

or CENSU-MORTHIDUS. A dead, rent, like that which is called “mortmain.” Blount; Cowell Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In ecclesiastical law. A spiritual punishment, consisting in withdraw-ing from a baptized person (whether be-longing to the clergy or the laity) a […]

ln old European law. A species of oblati or voluntary slaves of churches or monasteries; those who, to pro-cure tbe protection of […]

In Romnn law. They have decreed. The term of art, or technical term for the judgment, resolution, or decree of the senate. […]

In Canadian law. Tenure by cens, (q. v Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In Spanish and Mexican law. An annuity. A ground rent The right which a person acquires to receive a certain annual pension, […]

In old Engllsh law. Farmers, or such persons as were liable to pay a census, (tax.) Blount; Cowell Source: Black's Law Dictionary […]

In the Roman law. To or-daln; to decree. Dig. 50, 16, 111 Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A notice given hy a buyer to a seller that the tilings which bad been sold were claimed by another, in order […]

In French Canadian lnw. An an-nual tribute or due reserved to a seignior or lord, and imposed merely in recognition of his […]

In Saxon law. An expia-tory mulct or fine paid to the relations of a murdered person by the murderer or his re-lations. […]