A Dictionary of Law

In the civil law. Two names of an action which lay in behalf of a buyer to reduce the contract price, not to vancel the sale; the judex had power, however, tocancel the sale. Hunte

A writ addressed to a mayor ofa town, ete,, who was by the king’s writ commended to give seisin of lands to the king’s grantee, on his delaying to do it, requiring hitn to show can

An ancient officer, whose duty it was to ride armed cap-d-pié, into Westminster Hall at the coronation, while the king was at dinner, and, by the proclamation of a herald, make a c

The legitimation of a bastard by the subsequent marriage of his parents. Bell.

A writ which issues when it is necessary to remove a prisoner in order to prosecute in the proper jurisdiction wherein the fact was cominitted. 3 Bi, Comm. 130 HABEAS CCRPUS AD RES

Lat. The coging fine. fs cut cognoscitur, the cog- 3H. In Seoteh law. The period of the tion of a tack or lease. 1 Bligh, 522.

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