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Deliverer

One who delivers or rescues a preserver

Betaught

Delivered committed in trust

Bailor

One who delivers goods or money to another in trust

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Pawn or Pledge

other valuable things of a personal nature, such as patent-rights and manuscripts, may by the Common Law be delivered in pledge. It is not indispensable that the pledge should belong to the pledgor; it is sufficient if

Capias in withernam

sheriff to take goods or cattle of the defendant, to the value of those taken by him, and deliver them to the plaintiff, who gave a bond with sureties, conditioned to prosecute his suit and to return

Deed

[fr. d'd, Sax.; ded gaded, Goth.;daed, Dut.], a formal document on paper or parchment duly signed, sealed, and delivered. It is either an indenture (factum inter partes) needing an actual indentation [(English) Real Property Act, 1845 (8

Retainer

drawn pleadings or advised, or on whose behalf he has accepted a brief, the opportunity of retaining or delivering a brief to him. By rule 21 no counsel can be required to accept a retainer or brief

Escrow

Escrow, a writing under seal delivered to a third person, to be delivered by him to the person whom it purports to benefit upon

Statute staple

obligation; and, wanting the sanction of the seal of the king, the sheriff, after the extent, could not deliver the lands to the consuee, but had to seize them into the king's hands; and in order to

Sets of Exchange, or of Bills

or of Bills. It has been common, from a very early period, for the drawer to draw and deliver to the payee several parts, commonly called a set, of the same bill of exchange, any one part

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