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Action, conduct, something done; also the form prescribed by Law for the recovery of one's due, or the lawful demand of one's right. Bracton (Bk. 3, cap. 1) defines it:-Actio nihil aliud est quam jus prosequendi in judicio quod alicui debetur.-(An action is nothing else than the right of suing in a court of justice for that which is due to some one.) Actions are divided into criminal and civil: criminal actions are more properly called prosecutions, and perhaps actions penal, to recover some penalty under statute, are properly criminal actions. There were formerly three classes of actions in England: personal actions, in which the plaintiff sought to recover a debt or damages from the defendant; real actions, in which he sought to establish his title to land or other hereditaments; mixed actions, in which he sought only to establish his right to possession of land. All forms of action are now abolished, but there still inevitably remains the distinction between actions in personam brou...
Lancasterian
Of or pertaining to the monitorial system of instruction followed by Joseph Lancaster of England in which advanced pupils in a school teach pupils below them...
Lancaster
A city in Northwest England on the river Lune...
Prothonotaries
Prothonotaries, officers in the Courts of Common Pleas and Exchequer, who were superseded by the masters, 7 Wm. 4 & 1 Vict. c. 30; 1 Steph. Com. they were, however, continued in the Courts of Common Pleas at Durham and Lancaster. See now DISTRICT REGISTRARS....
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