A Dictionary of Law

Thomas. A law-glossary of the Tain, Greek, Norman, French, and other languages, interspersed in the commentaries by Sir W. Blackstone, Knt., and various law treatises upon each bra

In Scotch law. by which certain prohibited acts a deed are, if committed, declared and void. <A vesolutive clause dis- 1 puts an end to the right of a prohis committing the acts so

Of the goods of the testator, or intestate. A term applied to a judgment awarding execution against the property of a testator or intestate, as distinguished from the individual pr

In Scotch law. A sentences of the court of sessions, (who are now in the place of tiie commissioners for the valuation of teinds,) determining the extent and value of teinds. Bell.

For keeping the peace, and for good bebavior.

In ecclesiastical] procedure. Facts “newly come” to the knowledge of a partytoacause. Leave to plead facts noviter perventa is generally given, in a proper cuse, even after the ple

In old English law. A small parcel or bif of land.

These words, “marque” and “reprisal,” are frequently used as synonymous, but, taken in their strict etymological sense, the latter signifies a “taking in return;” the former, the p

The fact by of which aright comes into existence; a grant of a monopoly, the death of one’s x. Toll. Jur. 132.

Inforestlaw. Thefawning season of deer.

Fraus meretur fraudem. Plowd. 100. Fraud merits fraud.

<A code or system of laws in use among the Celtic tribes of Scotland down to the beginning of the fourteenth eentury, and then abolished by Kdward I, of England,

A court of arbitrators, created for the convenience of merchants in the city of New York, by act of the legislature of New York. It decides disputes between members of the chamber

A wrib of entry sine assensw capitiult lies where an abbot, prior, or such as hath covent or common seal, alions lands or tenements of the right of his church, without the assent o

Certain counsel, not less than six in number, appointed by the lord chanceclior, for the purpose of assisting the court of chancery, or any jildge thereof, with their opinion in ma

In English law. A court which had jurisdiction — of all cases of treason, misprisiun of treason, murder, manslaughter, bloodshed, and other malicious strikings whereby blood is she

In English parhouse on the assembling of every new pariiament. When the house is in committes ou bills introduced by the government, or in committee of ways and means, or supply, o

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Thestatuteofells and perches.

] In Englishlaw. An ancient writ, which was addressed by the king to the lord chancellor, to bestow the benelice that sliould jirst fall in the royal gift, above or under a Specifi

INTEREST OR NO INTER4ST. ‘These words, inserted in an insurance poliey, mean that the question whether the insured has or has not an insurable interest in the subject-matter is wai

Lat. A ly remedy. The writ of assise was thus acterized {in comparison with the less peditious remedies previously availalle) the statute of Westininster 2, (18 Edw. 24.)

The name given to certain English statutes, (8 Vict. c.8, amended by 28 & 24 Vict. c. 106, and 32 & 338 Vict. c. 18,) the object of which was te provide legislativa clauses ina con

In Englishlaw. A writ commanding the mayor of the staple to certify to the lord chancellor a statute-staple taken before him where the party himself detains it, and refuses to brin

A species of estovers, belonging to a tenant for life or years, consisting in the right to take from the woods of the lessor or owner such timber as may be necessary for making rep

A writ that lay for ajoint tenant or tenant in common who was distrained for more rent than his proportion of the land comes to. Reg, Orig. 182.

An abolished writ for disannuling « fine levied of lands in ancient demesne to the prejudice of the lord. Reg. Orig. 15,

In Saxon law. Witchcraft, particulaz!y that king which consisted in the conipounding and administering of drugs and philters.

Writs for the admitting and removing of guardians,

stituted by the state prosecutagainst intruders upon the public Gen. St. Mass. c. 141; 3 Pick. igh, 588.

In old English practice. A writ, issued by royal authority, empowering an attorney to appear for a defendant. Prior to the statute of Westminster 2, a party could not appear in cou

as a punishment or measure of prevention, ig where a juvenile offender is sentenced to be sent to a reformatory school, to be there detained fora certain period of time. 1 Russ. Cr

In the civil law. An exception or plea of the sale and delivery of the thing. This exception presumes that there was a valid sale and a proper tradition; but though, in consequence

ete. An ancient writ that lay to the customer of a port to permit one to pass wool without paying custom, he having paid it before in Wales. Reg. Orig. 279.

John. Latin phrases and rnuxims, collected from the institn« tional and other writers on Scotch law, with translations and iliustrations. 2d Edn. 1 vol. i2mo. Edinburgh, 1876.

An obsolete writ that lay where a house was within a borough, for rent issuing out of the same, and which warranted the taking of doors, windows, etc., by way of distress,

Lat. In pleading. The name of a plea to an action of debt upon an obligation for the performance of an award, by which the defendant denies that he submitted to arbitration, ete. B

And this he prays may be inquired of by the country. The conciusion of 4 plaintiff’s pleading, tendering an ne