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Office
knowledge. Officia magistratus non debent esse venalia, (The offices of a magistrate ought not to be saleable.) Lord Coke (Co. Litt. 234 a) speaks of the above statute as 'a law worthy to be written in letters
Paternity
ten months from the death of the first husband, as to the paternity of the child. Blackstone and Coke say, that if a man dies, and his widow soon after marries again, and a child is born
Pleas of the Crown
therefore, in all cases, the proper prosecutor for every such offence. See the works on this subject of Coke (3rd Institute), Hale, or Hawkins.
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Vavasor
vice domini, or valvasors: who are mentioned by our ancient lawyers as viri magn' dignitatis; and Sir Edward Coke speaks highly of them. Yet they are now quite out of use; and our legal antiquaries are not
Prescription
by prescription arises from a long-continued and uninterrupted possession of property, and is thus defined by Sir Edward Coke (Co. Litt. 113 b), Pr'scriptio est titulus ex usu et tempore substantiam capiens ab authoritatelegis. (Prescription is a
Process, connected with the manufacture
manufacture, for manufacturing common salt, brine pumped into salt pans by using diesel pump and for manu-facturing lime, coke, and limestones lifted to the platform at the head kiln by the aid of power, CCE v. Rajasthan
Reports
Reports. 'A report,' says Coke, 'signifyeth a public relation or bringing again to memory of cases judicially argued, debated, resolved, or adjudged in
Riparia
Riparia, a medi'val-Latin word, which Sir Edward Coke takes to mean water running between two banks; in other places it is rendered 'bank.' See MAGNA CHARTA,
Scintilla juris et tituli
1860 (now repealed by the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, 7th Sch.), has been warmly contested. Lord Coke admitted it (Chudleigh's case, 1 Co., p. 121 a), so did Mr. Booth (see his opinion at the
Sufferance, Tenancy at
the original lease, and is permitted by the reversioner to hold over, is a quasi-tenant at sufferance. Lord Coke tells us (in 2 Inst. 134) this diversity is to be observed, that where a man cometh to
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