Charge

[Lat. onus.] A burden; an incumbrance or lien upon land; a duty or liability attached to, or obligation imposed upon a person.* 3 Co. 14, JBTarlerfscase, 1 Stqfh. Com. 848.

8 Id. 637.

To CHARGE. nM.onerare.] To bind; to make or hold liable; to subject to, or burthen. Thus, land is said to be charged with a covenant of warranty, a debt, execution, (8 Co.l2, 14,) or trust.

4 £^ent's Com. 640.

So a person is said to be charged with a duty or liability. 8 Co. ub. sup. " If two be bound in an obligation, there the charge shall survive: so it appears that when land shall be charged by any lien, the charge ought to be equal, and one alone shall not bear all the burthen, and the law on this point is grounded on great equity: but in all the cases at the common law, if the party who should be charged had aliened the land bona fide, before any action brought, the land in the hands of the purchaser was not subject to any charge or execution."

Id. 14.

In practice

To subject land or person to execution.

8 Co. uh. sup.

To charge a person in execution, is to take or arrest him by virtue of a writ of execution.

1 Tidd's Fr. 366, 867. 4 Term R. 867.