Outriders
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
Bailiffs errant, employed by sheriffs or their deputies to ride to the extremities of their counties or hundreds, to summon men to the county or hundred court.
Wharton.
Ouverture des successions. In !French law, denotes the right of succession which arises to one upon the death, whether natural or civil, of another. Such successor must not be either as yet uneonceived, or a child tion viable, or one civilly dead; and he must also be clear of certain moral delinquencies, for which see code civil, 727. Bastards have no rights of succession; but in case their parent leaves legitimate offspring, they have one-third of the goods which, as a legitimate child, they would have received; and if the parent leaves no legitimate offspring, but ascendants or collaterals (being brothers or sisters), then onehalf; and if the parent leaves neither legitimate offspring nor ascendants nor collaterals (being brothers or sisters), then three-fourths"; and in case of a total failure of inheritable relations, then the whole. The widow surviving takes the succession where the parent leaves no inheritable relations or bastards, and failing her, the state.
Brown.