Chief
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
One who is put above the rest; • principal; the best of a number of things. Declaration in Chief. A declaration for the principal cause of action. 1 Tidd, Prac. 419. ^Examination in Chief. The first examination of a witness by the party who produces him.
1 Greenl. Ev. § 445.
Tenant in Chief. One who held directly of the king.
1 Washb. Real Prop. 19.