Westminster

A city by express creation of Henry VIII. It was dissolved as a see and restored to the bishopric of London by Edward VI. and turned into a collegiate church, subject to a dean, by Queen Elizabeth. The superior courts sat here, and the common-law courts have continued to do so, as do still the divisions of the high court of justice which represent them. The chancery division, except upon the first day of certain sittings, sits at Lincoln's Inn. Wharton.

An ancient book of records containing entries and inrollments of many charters and ancient acts of parliament as well as other instruments relating to the king and the rights of the crown, from the time of William I to the end of Edward III. Some of the earlier parts of it were compiled by Alexander de Swereford, first a clerk, and afterwards a baron, of the Exchequer, in the reign of Henry III. Record Commission, in 2 Sel. Essays in Anglo-Amer. L. H. 190.

to reverse the judgrecord. imitation or suppression of showing of an item in the debit in part erroneous. defeat; to reverse or avoid, as a accounting before a master, that is wrong, that is, either wholly or counterfeit; to make false; forgery; making or proving the injustice, falsity or error of reversal of a sentence or judg-

The seat of the superior courts, Westminster I.: a statute in 3 Edw. I. many provisions concerning purgation of forte et dure, marriage of wards, prescription, to warranty, etc. Westminster II.: the (1285), containing the statute de Bonis, formedon, second deliverance, cui in vita, vouching to warranty, mesne, waste, fieri Westminster HI.: the 18 Edw. I. (1290), Quia emptores, concerning alienations, mortmain,