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Banc (or Banco), sittings in

Law as a full court as distinguished from the sittings of the judges at Nisi Prius or on circuit. Such sittings might be held out of term as well as in term (1 & 2 Vict. c.32,

Commercial exploitation

Commercial exploitation, in relation to Semiconductor Integrated Circuits Layout-Design, means to sell, lease, offer or exhibit for sale or otherwise distribute such semiconductor integrated circuit for

Clerk of Arraigns

Clerk of Arraigns, an assistant to the Clerk of Assize. His duties are in the Crown Court on circuit.

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Clarendon, constitutions of, assize of

code of twenty-two Articles drawn up for the use of the judges, who were about to proceed on circuit, and containing directions for dealing with criminals and the repression of crime, and was issued by the sole

Admittendo in socium

for associating certain persons, as knights and other gentlemen of the country, to justices of assize on the circuit, Reg. Brev. 206.

Association

to have others associated with them; it is usual where a judge becomes unable to attend to his circuit duties, or dies-Reg. Brev. 201. Also a company or partnership, q.v., and see SOCIETY. Means an association of

Assise of novel disseisin

disseisin, an action to recover property of which a party had been disseised, i.e., dispossessed, after the last circuit of the judges. Abolished by 3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 27.

Archdeaconry

Archdeaconry, a division of a diocese, and the circuit of an archdeacon's jurisdiction. The Act 37 & 38 Vict. c. 63 facilitates the re-arrangement of the boundaries

Diocese, or diocess

or diocess [fr. diocese, Fr.; diocesi, Ital. And Span.; dioikhoiV fr. dioikew to govern, Gk.; di'cesis, Lat.], the circuit of every bishop's jurisdiction; it is divided into archdeaconries, each archdeaconry into rural deaneries, and rural deaneries into

Series turns

The turns in a series circuit

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