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Home Dictionary Name: baggingPetty-bag Office
Petty-bag Office, an office belonging to the Common Law jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery, for suits for and against solicitors and officers of that Court, and for process and proceedings by extents on statutes, recognizances, ad quod damnum scire facias to repel letters-patent, etc., Termes de la Ley. The term is derived from the little bag (parva baga) in which original writs relating to the business of the Crown were anciently kept.By the Great Seal Offices Abolition Act, 1884, s. 5, provision was made for the abolition of the office of Clerk of the Petty Bag, and the transfer of his duties, and in 1888, the last holder of the office dying, it ceased to exist.The Common Law jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery is now transferred to the High Court of Justice [(English) Jud. Act, 1925, s. 18(2)(b)], replacing (English) Jud. Act, 1873, s. 16).Pew [fr. puye, Dut.; appui, Fr.], an enclosed seat in a church. It is some what in the nature of an heirloom, and may descend by immemorial ...
bagful
The quantity that a bag will hold as he ate a bagful of popcorn...
Mail bag
Mail bag, the expression includes a bag, box, parcel or any other envelope or covering in which postal article in course of transmission by post are conveyed, whether it does or does not contain any such article. [Indian Post Office Act, 1898 (6 of 1898), s. 2 (c)]...
Bag
A sack or pouch used for holding anything as a bag of meal or of money...
Bagging
Cloth or other material for bags...
Bag lady
a homeless woman who carries all her possessions with her in bags...
Bag net
A bag shaped net for catching fish...
Ditty bag
A sailors small bag to hold thread needles tape etc also called sailors housewife...
Baga
Baga, a bag or purse. See PETTY BAG OFFICE.A bag or purse, esp. one in which original writs were kept by the chancery; Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn....
Baggy
Resembling a bag loose or puffed out or pendent like a bag flabby as baggy trousers baggy cheeks...
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