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

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

To lay on, to place upon or under a duty or a burden; to impose the money, as, to charge a debt upon the upon land, etc.; to place under a duty as by notice; to place upon a person the of the Rolls, three Vice-chan- Justices of Appeal,and the court the Lord Chancellor, and the two, v. Chftneellor; Master; England, whose business was brought in by merchants and; to pronounce or find, as ecclesiastical law. A church or yearly revenues, for the mainchant mass daily for the they appointed. religious edifice, in which dimanner as in the parochial founded in general at some itself, and designed for the as, in course of time, had distance from its site; and so church. chapel. The same thing to in writing of matters to justices in eyre, justices of as- Otherwise called capitula to placa An assembly of the prebendor collegiate church. particularly the latter, imhabit and distinguishing him in the law of evidence, the properly called reputation. to mark; to write. Chara writing; the oblitera-; to make or hold liable, as, duty or obligation of paying estate of a decedent, a legacy or obligation to know or do, burden of crime; to accuse; and formal allegation in a bill in equity, usually for the purpose of anticipating and meeting some matter of defense.