A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

Lat. (That the bill be quashed.) In practice. The form of the judgment i^r the defendant on a plea in abatement, where the action was commenced by bill, {billa.) 3 BL Com, 303. Ste

A covenant which goes with the land, [conveyed by the deed in which it is expressed,] as being annexed to the estate, and which cannot be separated from the land, and transferred w

[L. Lat. curialitas, curialitas Anglicana; lex Anglios; curtesia: L. Fr. curtesie Dengleterre,] An estate to which a man is by law entitled, on the death of his wife, in the lands

on the relation. A term used in the titles of legal proceedings, which are prosecuted by the people, on the relation or mformation of the aggrieved party, who is called the relator

A condition not expressed in words, but implied by law; a tacit condition, (conditio tacita). Bract, fol. 47. As if a grant be made to a man of an office generally, without adding

[L. Lat. consiliarius, consiliarius in lege; L. Fr. conseiller.'\ In practice. A person whose occupation and office are to give counsel or advice as to the management of suits and

Fr. A ■ church " warden, (q. V.) Cowell. GUARDIAN (or GARDEYNE) OF

Preve. L.Lat. A writ for sending the transcript of the foot of a fine leyied. Reg, Orig, 169.