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An anclent writ that lay for the lord, who, bavlng by right the wardship of bis tenant under age, could not obtaln his person, the same being carried

In Gothlc law. A tribunal answering to the Engllsh court-leet

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Lat This ls an agreement, words with which agree-ments anciently commenced. Yearb. H. 6 Edw. II. 191

In old English law. A tax or mulct. Jacob

In old English law. Hatred; ill will; prejudice, or partiality. Spelman; Cowell

In Saxon law. A recompense or satisfaction for the violation of holy orders, or violence offered to persons in holy orders. Cowell; Blount

Carriages plying for hire In the street. The driver is liable for negligently losing baggage. Mas-terson v. Short, 33 How. Prac. (N. Y.) 486

Iu Spanish law. The pub-lic domaln; the royal estate; the aggregate wealth of the state. The science of admin-isterlng the national wealth; public economy. Also an estate or farm belonging to a private person

L. Fr. In old English law. A port or harbor; a station for ships. St. 27 Hen. VI. c. 3

In tbe civil law. Tbe

Fr. In French and Ca-nadian law. A resident tenant; a settler; a tenant who kept hearth and home on the selgniory

Lat. Fit; suitable; active; useful, (of a servant.) Proved; authentic, (of Book of Saints.) Fixed; stable, (of au-thority of the king.) Du Cange

Lat. Have or take your effects to yourself, one of the old Roman forms of divorcing a wife. Cal* vin

A cloth of a mixed color. Magna Charta, c. 26

Lat. In Roman law. To allow [one] to have [possession.] This phrase denoted the duty of the seller of property to allow the purchaser to have the possession and enjoyment. For a breach of this duty, an actio ex empto might be main-tained

Lat. That you cause to have a view. A writ to cause the sherifT to take a view of lands or tenements

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Lat. In the civU law. To have. Sometimes distinguished from tenere, (to hdld,) and possidere, (to possess;) habere referring to the right, tenere to the fact, and possidere to both. Calvin

Riches, Mon. Angl. t 1, 100

In old Eng-llsh law. Rich men; literally, having men. The same with fees ting-men, (q. v.) Cowell

Lat. In conveyancing. Tiie clanse usually following the granting part of the premises of a deed, which defines the extent of the ownership in the thing granted to be held and enjoyed by the gran-tee. 3 washb. Real Prop. 437; New York Indians v. U. S., 170 U. S. 1, 18 Sup. Ct. 531, 42 […]

Lat. (You have the body.) The name given to a variety of writs, (of which these were anciently the em-phatlc words,) havlng for their object to bring a party before a court or Judge. In common usage, aud whenever these words are used alone, they are understood to mean the habeas corpus ad subjiciendum, (see […]