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A Law Dictionary and Glossary · George C. Kinney · 1893

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

Known; clear, as opposed to general; limited, specified, In feudal and old English law. limited or defined in quantity. law. The freeholders of a hundred; One per cent monthly, or twelve rate of interest permitted. established in London in 1834, to of the court of admiralty was transa Roman court consisting of a hunthe decision of the moat important l.l.A freeman of inferior rank, chiefly husbandman. law. Stock; a stock.

A gaoler

Cepi corpus: I have taken the body; and imprisoned the body; — et est body, and it is in custody j — et est body and he is sick; — et paratum and have it ready. These axe the vaa capias, — the return cepi corpus, or being the proper return where the released on bail. emphatic word formerly used in writs property, and in declarations in reis still used as descriptive of the acwhere the action is for the taking the cepit. Cepit in alio loco: took, where the defendant intends to et abdnxit: took and led away; the trespass for animals. Cepit et asporand carried avpay; the emphatic words things. law. The stumps or roots of trees after the trees are felled. laiv. "Wax; a seal of wax. Head money of money paid yearly to the lords for the keeping of the A certain thing. to obscure; particular, as opposed defined, as opposed to indefinite. Certain services: services stinted, undue generality. In pleading, there were formerly three kinds of certainty: certainty to a common intent, or certainty according to a reasonable construction; certainty to a certain intent in general, or certainty according to a fair or reasonable construction without reference to possible facts which do not appear; and certainty to a certain intent in every particular, or such technical accuracy as precludes all question, v. Moral certainty.