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Non-residentio pro clerico regis
Non-residentio pro clerico regis, a writ addressed to a bishop, charging him not to molest a clerk employed in the royal service, by reason of his non-residence; in which case he is to be discharged, Reg....
Fee
Fee [fr. feoh, Sax.; fee, Dan., cattle; feudum, Med. Lat.; feu, Scot.], property peculiar; reward or recom-pense for services. See FEES. Also an estate of inheritance divided into there species: (1) fee-simple absolute; (2) qualified or...
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High Steward, Court of the Lord
High Steward, Court of the Lord, a tribunal instituted for the trial of peers or peeresses indicted for treason or felony, or for misprision of either, but not for any other offence. The office of Lord...
Satisfaction
Satisfaction, legal compensation; the recompense for an injury done, or the payment of money due and owing. See ACCORD. The giving of something with the intention, express or implied, that it is to extinguish some existing...
pro confesso
pro confesso [Latin] : as though confessed [the plaintiff's pleadings were taken pro confesso since the defendant did not appear] see also decree pro confesso at decree
Consideration
Consideration. Any act of the promisee (the person claiming the benefit of an obligation) from which the promisor (the person burdened with the obligation) or a stranger derives a benefit or advantage, or any labour detriment...
Marshalling
Marshalling, the act of arranging or of putting into proper order. The doctrine of marshalling assets and securities depends upon the principle that a person, having two funds out of which to satisfy his demands, shall...
Breve judiciale non cadit pro defectu forme
Breve judiciale non cadit pro defectu forme [Lat.], A judicial writ fails not through defect of form.
Confesso, bill taken pro
Confesso, bill taken pro, an order which the Court of Chancery made, when the defendant did not file an answer, that the plaintiff might take such a decree as the case made by his bill warranted....
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