Ballentine's Law Dictionary

A brand on the forehead as a punishment for counterfeiting in Rhode Island.

A junto; a small political faction.

(Spanish) A lot of land measuring 100 by 200 feet.

(Spanish) A knight.

A body of officials forming an advisory council.

A council of cabinet members held privately to consider public matters.

Brushwood.

A catchpoll; a bailiff; a constable.

An assessment-roll of real property.

A corpse.

To fall; to fail; to end.

A Turkish civil magistrate.

That which is inherited or escheated.

Relating to or subject to escheat or forfeiture.

Falling.

Preserved for cutting, as wood.

Delivery of a child by cutting above the pelvis.

Other things are lacking.

Other things equal.

The others being silent.

Of the rest or residue.

A memorial; a petition; a report; a section of a book.

An English statute authorizing damages in equity suits.

A pen made of a reed. See 14 Johns. (N. T.) 484.

A causeway.

A causeway.

The right to take fuel annually.

A court list of causes to be heard; a list of prisoners with their sentences. See 9 HI. App. 537.

An English statute (1751) adopting the Gregorian calendar.

A period terminating with the day of the succeeding month numerically corresponding to the day of its beginning, less one. If there be no corresponding day, it terminates with the

(Reman) The first day of the month.

A notice of a meeting; a stock assessment; a monumenti, landmark, course or distance in a survey. See 1 Wash. St. 521, 20 Pac. 605.

Calling off the names of veniremen for jury duty.

The formal calling of the plaintiff upon ordering a nonsuit.

Admitting a student to the right to practice law.

(Scotch) Tribute by a clansman to his chief, for protection.

A false charge; a calumny; a claim; a demand.

The oath against calumny; an oath of good faith.

Same as Calumniae juramentum.

To claim; to calumniate.

Those who make false accusations maliciously.

Libel; slander; defamation.

An action holding that Calvin, though born in Scotland after the English crown descended to James I, who was also king of Scotland, was entitled to hold land. See 2 How. St. Tr. 55

A chamber; a vault; a treasury.

Rent paid for storage.

A chamberlain.

Same as Cambist.

Exchange; a bourse.

Champerty.

A party to the offense of champerty.

A dealer in negotiable paper.

(Civil Law) Exchange; exchange of lands.

Same as Camara.

The science of finance.

A harbor.

A treasurer; a chamberlain.

The exchequer chamber.

The star-chamber.

(Spanish) A highway.

An Italian secret society.

A church-bell; a bell.

A hand-bell used by court criers.

A bell tower.

A part of a field.

An English statute giving a remedy for death by wrongful act. See 9 & 10 Viet., c. 93.

A share.

A grain or corn field.

A duel; a battle.

A writ to seize other goods of equal value when the plaintiff’s goods have been taken out of the county.

Champerty.

A field.

May day, a Saxon anniversary.

Chancery.

A chancellor.

The avoiding or nullifying of a written obligation. See 26 Ga. 451.

A cancellation.

The railing inclosing the bar of a court; cancellation marks.

The announced aspirant for an office.

February 2d.

(Scotch) A tax; rent paid in produce.

A law; a church officer who took revenue for conducting service.

The office of a canon.

Pertaining to a canon or church law.

A canon.

The law of the Roman church.

The office or benefice of a canon.

Same as Canons of inheritance.

The rules or laws of descent.

An auction sale; a sale to effect partition between cotenants.

The excess over a full measure.

A district.

(Welsh) A district; a hundred.

(Scotch) A duty paid in produce.

To examine thoroughly; an examination.

Legal qualification; authority; competency.

A holder; capable.

Capable of committing crime.

Capable of contracting.

A judicial writ to recover land on the tenant’s default.

A judicial writ for the possession of land when the tenant defaulted in a real action.