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Habeas corpora juratorum

process which issued out of the Court of Common Pleas, commanding the sheriff to summon a jury. The practice was similar

quod pervenitur ad illud. 5 Rep. 116, (When anything is commanded, everything by which it can be accomplished is also commanded.)

A general or commander of land forces in the Turkish empire especially the commander

Mandavi ballivo (I have commanded the bailiff). If a bailiff of a liberty have the

to neglect or refuse to obey a superior or his commands the laws etc to transgress the commands of one in

chattels, and should leave the kingdom within fifteen days after command so to do, upon pain of imprisonment, 4 Reeves, c.

is addressed to him who detains another in custody, and commands him to produce the body, with the day and cause

in a county must be ready and appareled at the command of the sheriff, and at the cry of the country

is either a minority Government or a coalition which can command a majority in the House, Vermon Bogdanor, p. 138.

Imperium, right to command, an attribute of execu-tive power.