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Justices, officers deputed by the Crown to ad-minister justice and do right by way of judgment. The judges of the Supreme Court are called justices, but the word is usually applied to petty magistrates who sit to administer summary justice in minor matters, and who are commonly called justices of the peace. They were first appointed in 1327 by 1 Edw. 3, st. 2, c. 16, and are now appointed by the king's special commission under the Great Seal, the form of which was settled by all the judges in 1590, and continues, with little alteration, to this day. Consult Putnam's Early Treatises on the Practice of the Justices of the Peace in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries. This appoints them all, jointly and severally, to keep the peace in the county named; and any two or more of them to inquire of and determine felonies and other misdemeanours in such county committed, in which number some particular justices, or one of them, are directed to be always included, and no business done without ...

Say not less than

Say not less than, means if a covenant provides for the purchase of say not less than hundred packs of combing skins, it would mean that there is a stipulation securing to the purchaser a minimum quantity of hundred packs, or, in other words, there is an absolute contract to supply hundred packs at least, owing to the use of the words 'not less than', Leeming v. Snaith, (1851) 16 QB 275....

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