A Dictionary of Law

Lat. In old English law, A deed; a person’s act and deed; unything stated or made certain; a sealed instrument; a deed of conveyance. A fact; a circumstance; particularly a fact in

Lat. In the law of evidence. The fact to be proved; afact which isin issue, and to which evidence Isto bedirected. 1 Greenl. Hy. § 13.

COURT OF. In English ecclesiastical law. A jurisdiction or tribunal belonging to the archbishop. It does not hold pleas in any suits, but creates rights to pews, monuments, and par

In French law. A contract of letting houses.

The privilege which anciently several lords reserved to themselves of setting up folds for sheep in any fields within their manors, the better to manure them, and this not only wit

In maritime law. To leave a port; to be out of a port. To depart imports more than to sez, or set sail. A warranty in a policy that a vessel shall depart on or before a particular

And of this he puts himself upon the country. The formal conclusion of & common-law plea in bar by way of traverse, The literal translation is rebained in the modern form.

A tribunal empowered to try any oflicer of government or other person brought to its bar by the process of imthe senate; and in the several states, usually, the upper house of the

In old English law. A writ which lay for @ person wiiose cattle or goods were taken by another, who during a contest was likely to make away with them, and who had not the ability

In English law. Officers of the court of chancery; their offices were abolished by 5 & 6 Vict. ce. 103,

A writ which lay for the release of one imprisoned for a re-disseisin, on payment of a reasonable fine. Pog. Orig. 2226.

Chief justice for holding pleas before the king. e title of the chief justice of the king’s bench, first assumed in the latter part of the reign of Henry III. 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, 91

Chief justice for holding pleas before the king. The title of the chief justice of the king’s bench, first assumed in the latter part of the reign of Henry Ill. 2 Reeve, Eng. Law,

In old English law. A species of base tenure, by which certain lands (termed “bord lands,”) were anciently held in England, the tenunts being termed “bordavii;” the service was tha

In maritime law. The accidental ranning foul of vessels. 14 Pet. 112.

A precautionary stipuration inserted in a deed making a good tenant to the prweépe in a common recovery. See I Prest. Cony. 110.

(spelled, also, “France. ling” and “Franklin.”) A freeman; a free. holder; a gentleman. Blount; Cowell.

Know all men by these presents. Formal words used at the commencement of deeds ef release in the Latin forms. work. This was a species of remedy in the civil law, available to a pe

The writ of entry ad terminum qui preterit lies where a man leases land to another for a term of years, and the tenant holds over histerm. And if lands be leased to a man for the t

In’Scotch law. The tenant of “afeu; afeu-vassal. ell.

In English law. A tribunal composed of members of the privy council, being judges or retired judges, which acts as the queen’s adviser in matters of law referred to it, and exercis

A writ prohibiting the taking of fines for beau pleader. Reg. Orig. 179. DE FINE PRO REDISSEISINA CA-