A Law Dictionary and Glossary

Freight money. Saxon and old English law. A free pledge, oi of the ancient Saxon names.of the tithing or of the individuals who composed it

To call or demand a party. propose a law; to request its passage; to move in writing; one of a set of questions in according to a certain form, for proposal to witto witnesses exam

An apostate; an unbeliever; one Christianity.

To use improperly; to abuse. behavior; a wrongful act incurring liability in of justice: a failure in the administration A less heinous species of crime; an inamounting to felony.

Assessors. An ancient to assist magistrates with adseal an instrument; to seal in comdesignate for a specific purpose. then being.

Possibility; a possibility. Posexecntionis uunquain ro Tiviscatur: be revived after the dissolution of its exeevent; a contingency; an estate founded Possibility coupled with an in

Principal; a principal criminal.- Principalis debet semper ad fldei-jiissores: the principal resort is had to the sureties. fundamental rules. Prlncipia proprove; they are not prov

To take back on pledge; to relaw. To let one to mainprise upon surety. in replevin. writ of replevin. and old English law. To reply; to answer a and old English law. The answer of

Security; surety. acquittance, or release. In old English law. Writ of security of the lay for one who was in fear of some bodily makes secure; an instrument given to secure an act

A living witness; the law. A living pledge; a pledge of the thing pledged went toward lex fieri potest qua) omnibus comprospiciat, ntilis est: scarcely any

To enlarge; to extend. enlarge the jurisdiction. Ampliare Boni estjudicis, etc. extend time; to defer or postpone. granting of further time for the of a cause; a deferring of judgd

To deliver from defendant in an action; to find a finding of not guilty; to acquit absolva i A parol promise, contract on the case, which lies for a such a promise. Assumpse-; they

A sheep-fold; ■tan-house. law. A shephei'd. ^ ^ law. A plain; open < heath.' Berras assarheaths, v. Beria. law. Barriers; inclosures; limits. byrthinsak, o. sc. In old Scots law. A

The seal of a custom-house; parchment, sealed and delivered by customs goods are customed; a testimonial that king, are paid. law. To cocket Cokettari: to be with a cocket collecti

To abandon a cause or give up or disclaim; to refuse to acknowledge. law. To discharge from being a forest; to relaw. v. Disafforest. English law. To de-afl Eorest or disafforest.

Deduction; abate- Defaltam facere: to make default words injurious to a person's otherwise termed libel, and oral defamer. omission or non-performance in court which provides that

A notice or sumchattel, animate or inaniof the death of any reaforfeited to the crown, to be in alms by the high almoner. the gi-ound assumed in a out of a port; to depart, v. Depa

A petition of right; a restitution from the crown of either pi-esents a petition. A plaintiff or actor, particularly in an of a demand or petition; resting in dewithout possession.

To write in a gross, or large or fair hand; to buy up any obtain a monopoly, with an intent

In English law. The grain or other dead victuals, with grossing of any other commodity, sonable price.

I. fr. To raise; to lift up

I. fr. To inherit, v. Cestuy

To impose or lay upon; to from doing a thing, v. Injunction.

I. fr. To enlai-ge; to make wider. Enlarger I'estate: to diate remainder-man in fee possession.

inlarge. To extend; to add In old law. To set at large; to release

1. 1. In old English law. V. Alia enormia.

I. Immediate; excessive; Enormis4.ransgressio: a heinous

Aggravated.

I. fr. In old English law. parl or imparl.

I. fr. Impairing. Enpeirez:

I fr. To inquire; to make quire. enfranchise; to confer a privilege break; to violate or infringe. Enpledge; obligation by agreement. throw out, Engette: ejected. design; deceit; f

To enter or transcribe on a roll

To seal.

I fr. To seal. Ensele de sou sele desouth les seals de jurours: jurors. Ensellomes: we sealed.

ansement, I. fr. Also; likewise

I. fr. To inform; to instruct.

I. fr. To bury. Ensevely:

To create an estate tail.

A fee, limited to certain heirs, tail

I. fr. In old pleading, a

entent, I. fr. Understanding;

I fr. In old pleading, the a real action.

To take actual possession of before a court, and usually in writing records.

eiitre, I. fr. In; within. Enter

I. fr. Left out; omitted.

1. fr. Entire; whole. Entier

A contract the both sides, — which admits of

The whole, in contradistinction

entoir, entonr, entnr, I. fr.

I. fr. To intermeddle; to

!. fr. To enter. Entrast: enters.

The putting of a proceeding on guage and order; the writing so made lands or tenements, by entering into cial and summary remedy against ter; in the law of burglaiy, an act essary

writ of. An old real action, until a comparatively recent period, the general remedy to recover the possession of lands wrongfully withheld from the owner. Entry in the per and cui

To take effect; to operate.

euveyer, I. fr. To send. Enriees: sent.

enverz, I. fr. Against.

A public minister of the second class, ranking next after an ambassador.

I. fr. To send; to send for; to summon to court Envoye: sent

I. I. In ecclesiastical law. Synodals, and other customary payments from the clergy to their bishop, formerly collected by the rural deans.

I. In the civil law. A superintendent, or overseer. Episcopi qui prajsunt pani et ceteris venalibus rebus: overseers who have the charge of bread and other things exposed for sale.

I. In the civil law. An opinion of the emperor upon a case submitted to him, or a decision in answer to a petition; a rescript

I. I. In old English equipments.

In a general sense, natural independent of any positive law the principles of natural right in by supplying rules for cases not mitigating the rigor of the law by or by adapting it

Of several meanings or cation.

A scraping or rubbing out ing, by scraping the letters from moval of a part of a writing, by where a part of a writing has been

I. In the civil law., To

I. In the civil law. To

I Therefore here,— words therefore neither here.

gr.-l. In the civil law.

frithbnrgus. In old English law. A kind of frank pledge, by which the lords or principal men were made responsible for their dependents or servants.

L "We erect, — a word by in England by charter.

Erraunt, I fr. In English V. Eyre.

I I. In old law. A waif

/. I. In old law. Erroneously

I. and eng. Mistake; a mistake ceedings, in a suit in a court of Error fucatns nuda Teritate in rationibus vincit veritatem deposit of title deeds with the credexcessive waste as i

writ of. An original writ which lies after judgment in an action of law, in a court of record, to correct an error of fact or an error of law apparent of record. Error coram nobis:

I. I. In old English law. An escheat. Esc%t% vulgo dicuntur quae, decedentibus Ms qui de rege tenant in capite, cum non extat ratione sanguinis haeres, ad flscum relabuntur: those

I. I. In old English law. An escheatoi\

breve de, I. I. In old English law. A writ of exchange, — a license in the shape of a writ, granted to an English merchant, to draw a bill on another in foreign parts.

An escape of a person from lawful arrest or imprisonment, whether violent pr secured through collusion; whether negligent, that is, without the knowledge or consent of the ofl Scer

escapia, 1. 1. In old English law. An escape; a chance, or accident v. Eschapium.

To fall back, to revert, return or become forfeited to the lord, the crown, or the state.

In American law. The reverting of land to the state, on the death of the owner without lawful heirs. In feudal and English law. The falling back of lands to the lord in consequence

escheatei'. In American law. An officer appointed to take charge of escheated estates, sometimes termed escheator general. In old English law. An officer appointed by the lord trea

escaetor, I. I. In old English law. An escheator.

eschire, eshire, eshuer, eshure, eschure, escheter, L. Fr. To fall or happen; to descend; to escheat.

escseta, I. I. In old English law. An escheat; the falling of a material object, as a tree; the appendages of a tree felled; the droppings of straw on the ground. Escsetas quercuum

eschure, eschever, I. fr. To shun or avoid; to eschew.

I. fr. Notorious; proclaimed. Felons escries: notorious felons.

escrit, I. fr. Writing; a writing; a written instrument

Escrowe, escrovet, /. fr. A scroll, or writing; a mere writing, as distinguished from a perfect deed; a deed delivered to a third person to be delivered over to the grantee or obli

In old English law. An escrow; a scroll.

I. fr. In old English law. Service of the shield; a kind of knight-service, in which a tenant was bound to follow his lord to war at his own charge; later, a pecuniary commutation

eschambinm, excambium, I. I. In old English law. Exchange. Escambium ad valentiam: an allowance to a tenant who vouched another to warranty out of the land of the vouchee to make u

1. 1. In old English law. Tackle or furniture of ships.

estepper, escepper, I. fr., Eskippare, I. I In old English law. To ship. Eskippa: shipped.

I. fr. To choose. Esle, eslieus, eslus: chosen.

esliors. v. ElisoH.

I. fr. To remove or eloign; to adjourn.

In old English law. The privilege of the eldest; the privilege of the eldest among coparceners, to have the first choice upon division of the inheritance.