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Lat in Roman law. An officer correspondlng in some respects to a notary. His business was to draw legal instruments, (contracts, wills, […]

In old records. A public inn, or house of entertainment Cow-eil Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A short gown; a herald’s coat; a surcoat Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Lat in Roman law. A tab-let Used in voting, and in giving the ver-dict of juries; aud, when written upon, com-monly translated […]

In medical jurisprudence. A loathsome venereal disease (vulgarly called “the pox”) of pecullar virulence, infectious by dlrect contact, capable of hereditary trans-mission, […]

E. An abbreviation of “Tempore Regis Edwardi” (in the time of King Edward,) of common occurrence in Domesday, when the valuation of […]

A tribute or payment in money pald to the bishop or archdeacon hy the inferior clergy, at the Easter visitation Source: Black’s […]

L. Lat. Syn-ods-men (corrupted into sidesmen) were the urban and rural deans, now the church-wardens Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

The name given by the canonists to deeds of which both partB were written on the 6ame piece of parchment, with some […]

A meeting or assembly of ecclesiastical persons concerning religion; belng the same thing, in Greek, as convocation in Latln. There are four […]

A university committee. A combination of persons or firms nnited for the puriwse of enterprises too large for iridi-vlduals to undertake; or […]

one chosen by a college, mh-nicipality, etc., to defend its cause. Calvin Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

To cut short, or pro-nounce things so as not to be understood. Cowell Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In tbe oivil law. An advocate or patron; a burgess or recorder; an agent or attorney who acts for a corporation or […]

D’S INN. Formerly an ton of chancery Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

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The art or cunning rightly to form and make written iustru-ments. It is either judicial or extrajudicial; the latter being wholly occupied […]

The constructive delivery of the subject-matter of a sale, where it is cumbersome or inaccessible, by the actual delivery of some article […]

In logic. The full logic-al form of a single argument It conslsts of three propositions, (two premises nnd the conclusion,) and these […]

Lat. In ecclesiastical law. wood of any klnd whlch was kept on purpose to be cut, and which, being cut, grew again […]

A Saxon form of greet-ing, meaning peace and safety Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A head-note; a note preflx-ed to the report of an adjudged case, containing an epitome or brief statement of the rulings of […]

In old English law. Persons who, by mutual oaths, covenant to share in each, other’s fortunes Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed […]

Certain officers in the English court of chan-cery, whose duties were to keep the records, make copies of pleadings, etc. Their oflices […]

Cheating and defrauding grossly with deliberate artifice, wyatt v. Ayres, 2 Port. (Ala.) 157; Forrest v. Hanson, 9 Fed. Cas. 456; Thorpe […]