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The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

A security sometimes taken in Scotch proceedings, when no better can be had, viz., an inventory of effects given up upon oath, and assigned in security of the sums which may be found due. Bell, Diet. JURATS (Law hat. jurati). Sworn men; officers of certain municipal corporations in England, in the nature of aldermen or assistants. Cowell; Blount. So called from their official oaths.

See Dugdale, Imbanking, 18 et seq.

JURE (Lat.) By right; in right; by the law; according to the law.