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Clifford's Inn

students of law. It was the most important of the Inns of Chancery and numbered among its students Coke and Selden. It was governed by a principal and twelve rulers until late in the last century. In

Brasque

A paste made by mixing powdered charcoal coal or coke with clay molasses tar or other suitable substance It is used for lining hearths crucibles etc Called also

busted

Inoperable due to damage broken of a machine as the coke machine is busted

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Chaldron

or its equivalent weight and more than twice as much at Newcastle Now used exclusively for coal and coke

firelighter

a piece of a substance that burns easily and can be used to start a coal or coke fire

mainline

to inject illegal drugs into the vein as he preferred to mainline heroin rather than sniff coke

Pepsi

Pepsi Cola a familiar contraction as I prefer Pepsi to Coke

Alodial, or Allodial, or Allodium

contradistinguished from Feudal lands, which are held of superiors.-There are not any alodial lands in England, according to Coke, Co. Litt. 93 a; 1 Hall. Mid. Ages, ch. 2, pt. I.

Bracton

looked up to as the first source of legal knowledge, even down to the time of Sir Edward Coke, who seems to have made this author his guide in all inquiries into the foundation of our law.

Compendia sunt dispendia

times compendia sunt dispendia, and melius est petere fontes quam sectari rvulos.'-Co. Litt. 305 b. This passage from Coke is taken as the motto to Smith's Leading Cases.

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