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Articles
one of the parties shall convey to the other certain lands, or release his right to them, or execute some other disposition of them. Articles are therefore considered as a memorandum or minute of an agreement to
Attesting witness
Attesting witness, a person who has seen a party execute a deed, or sign a written document. He then subscribes his signature for the purpose of identification and
Await
Await [fr. awaiti, Wall., to watch, waiti, to look], the lying in wait to execute some mischief, See 13 Ric. 2, st. 2, by which no pardon is allowed for the death of
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Backing a warrant of a justice of the peace
of the peace. Formerly, where a warrant which had been granted in one jurisdiction was required to be executed in another, as where a felony had been committed in one county and the offender was lurking in
Beadle, or Bedel
by the vestry, and whose business is to attend the vestry, to give notice of its meetings, to execute its orders, to attend upon inquests, and to assist the constables. A crier or messenger of a Court,
Uses
trust. See OFFICIAL USE; ACTIVE USE; PASSIVE TRUST, and infra. Uses may be classified as:- I. Present or executed; distributable into:- (a) Those arising by act of parties, which were created either- (1) By express declaration in
Capias in withernam
goods, etc., were concealed or eloigned, i.e., conveyed to places unknown to him, so that he could not execute the writ, the defendant might then sue out a apias in withernam, requiring the sheriff to take other
Cheats
the plain rules of common honesty; as by playing with false dice, by causing an illiterate person to execute a deed to his prejudice, or reading it over to him in words different from those in which
Churchwardens
Easter week, and are generally two in number; are obliged when chosen to serve, and are sworn to execute the office faithfully. Several persons are, however, exempted from the office, viz., peers of the realm, members of
Commissary
Commissary, one who is sent or delegated to execute some office or duty as the representative of his superior. In ecclesiastical law, an officer of the bishop,
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