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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...

pro confesso [Latin] : as though confessed [the plaintiff's pleadings were taken pro confesso since the defendant did not appear]...

Fee [fr. feoh, Sax.; fee, Dan., cattle; feudum, Med. Lat.; feu, Scot.], property peculiar; reward or recom-pense for services. See...

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Satisfaction, legal compensation; the recompense for an injury done, or the payment of money due and owing. See ACCORD. The...

Non pros., abbrev. For non prosequitur (he [the plaintiff] does not pursue

Consideration. Any act of the promisee (the person claiming the benefit of an obligation) from which the promisor (the person...

Marshalling, the act of arranging or of putting into proper order. The doctrine of marshalling assets and securities depends upon...

Breve judiciale non cadit pro defectu forme [Lat.], A judicial writ fails not through defect of form.

Confesso, bill taken pro, an order which the Court of Chancery made, when the defendant did not file an answer,...

resorted to by public companies to raise money for the prosecution of their undertakings. Registration of a company's debentures (under the

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