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The expression of the monopoly of oxford, Cambridge, and the royal printers to publish the Bible

with the ap-purtenances. Bract fol. 73b

with satchel and purse. A phrase in old Scotch law

with the burden; subject to an incumbrance or charge, wbat is taken cum onere is taken subject to au existing burden or charge

(with a grain of salt.) with allowance for exriggeration

A field on which a crop of wheat is growing is a cultivated field, al-though not a stroke of labor may have been done in it since the seed was put in the ground, and it is a cultivated field after the crop is removed. It is, strictly, a cultivated piece of ground. . State […]

A person who is indicted for a criminal offense, but not yet convicted. It is not, however, a technical term of the law; and in its vernacular usage it seems to imply only a light degree of censure or moral reprobation

AR. QELICTUM

In old records. The lay-ing up a ship in a dock, ln order to be re-paired. Cowell; Blount

(To whom ln llfe.) A writ of entry for a widow against him to whom her husband aliened her lauds or tenements ln his life-time; which must con-tain in it that duriug hls life she could not withstand it Reg. orig. 232; Fitzh. Nat Brev. 193

A term of French mari-time law. See A Cueillettk

An engine of cor-rectlon for common scolds, which in the

An auctioneer. Carr v. Gooch, 1 wash. (Va.) 337, (262.) one who calls out aloud; one who publishes or proclaims. See Cries

or CRI DE PAIS. The

A voyage undertaken for a given purpose; a voyage for the purpose of making captures jure belli. The Brutus, 2 Gall. 538, Fed. Cas. No. 2,060

The intentional and mall-clous infliction of physical suffering upon living creatures, particularly human beings; or, as applied to the latter, the wanton, malicious, and unnecessary infliction of pain upon the body, or the feelings and emotions; abusive treatment; inhumanity; outrage

In old English law. Marsh land. Blount

A mark made by persons who are unable to write, to stand instead of a signature; usually made iu the form of a Maltese cross

one wlio, having no interest in tlie laud, works it in consideration of receiving a portion of the crop for his labor. Fry v. Jones, 2 Rawle (Pa.) 11; wood v. Garrison (Ky.) 62 S. W. 728; Steel v. Frick, 56 Pa. 172

The products of the harvest in corn or grain. Emblements. Insurance Co. v. Debaven (Pa.) 5 Atl. Go; Goodrich v. Stevens, 5 Lans. (N. Y.) 230

A crofter; one holding a croft

Pilgrims; so called as wear* Ing the sign of the cross on tbeir upper gar-ments. Britt, c. 122. Tbe kuights of tbe order of St. John of Jerusalem, created for the defense of the pilgrims. Coweli: Blount

A little close adjoining a dwelling-house, and Inclosed for pasture and till-age or any particular use. Jacob. A small place fenced off in which to keep farm-cat-tie. Spelman. The word is now entirely ob-solete

A foreign coin of base metal, prohibited by statute 27 Edw. I. St. 3, from being brought iuto the realm. 4 Bl. Conun. 98; Crabb, Eng. Law’, 176

A cross-bearer, who went before the prelate, wharton

The crosier, or pastoral staff

In old Scotch law. A weregild. A composition, satisfaction, or assythment for the slaughter of a man

To charge oue with crime; to furnish ground for a criminal prosecution; to expose a person to a criminal charge. A witness cannot be compelled to answer any question which has a tend-ency to criminate him. Stewart v. John-son, 18 N. J. I.aw, 87; Kendrick v. Comm.. 78 Va. 490

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In tbo oivil law

Lat. Crime. Also an accu-satlon or charge of crime

Rehearse the concord, or peace. A phrase used in the ancient proceedings for levying fines. It was the form of words by which the Justice before whom the parties appeared directed the serjeant or couutor in attendance to recite or read aloud the concord or agreement between the parties, as to tbe lands Intended to […]

An officer of a court, who makes proclamations. Hls principal duties are to announce the opening of the court and Its adjournment and the fact that certain speclal matters are about to be transacted, to announce the admission of persons to the bar, to call the names of jurors, witnesses, and parties, to announce that […]

Lat. In the clvil law. A cer-taln number of days allowed an heir to de-liberate whether he would take the inherlt-ance or not. Calvln

In old records. A sudden stream or torrent; a rising or inundation

In medical jurisprudence. A form of imperfect or arrested mental development, which may amount to idiocy, with physical degeneracy or deformity or lack of development; endemic in Switzerland and some other parts of Europe, but the term ls applied to simllar states occurring else-where

Twilight In the law of burglary, this term means the presence of sufficient light to discern the face of a man; such light as exists immediately before the rising of the sun or directly after Its setting

In Saxon law. To put out an eye; which had a pecuniary punishment of fifty shillings annexed to lt

In maritime law. Such little inlets of the sea, whether within the precinct or extent of a port or without, as are narrow passages, and have shore on either side of them. Call. Sew. 56

A female creditor

In English prao-tioo. A bill in equity, filed by one or more creditors, for an account of the assets of a decedent, and a legal settlement and dls-tribution of his estate among themselves and such other creditors as may come in under the decree

Fr. Credit in the English seuse of the term, or nfore particularly, the security for a loan or advancement

1. The ability of a business man, to borrow money, or obtain goods on

To bring into being ; to cause to exist; to produce; as, to create a trust in lands, to create a corporation. Edwards v. Bibb, 54 Ala. 481; McClellan v. McClellan, 65 Me. 500

A creditor. Cowell

In French law. A claim; a debt; also belief, credit, faith

A foreigu merchant, but generally taken for oue who has a stall In a fair or market. Blount

Lat. We create, one of the words by which a corporation in England

In old English law. A word of disgrace and obloquy, pronounced on either champion, in the ancient trial by bat-tie, proving recreant, i. e., yielding. Glanville tails it “infestum ct inverccundum verb urn.” His condemnation was amittere liberam legem, i. e., to become infamous, and not to be accounted liber et legal is homo, being, […]