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Manor [fr. manerium, Lat.; manoir, Fr., habitation, or manendo, of abiding there, because the lord usually resided there], an estate...

Mandamus [we command). (1) A high prerogative writ of a most extensive remedial nature. In form it is a command...

Lives, Estate for. A lease to A. during the life of another or the lives of others was a tenure...

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Letters of marque, commissions for extraordinary reprisals for reparation to merchants taken and despoiled by strangers at sea, grantable by...

King's Counsel, barristers appointed counsel to the Crown, and called within the Bar. They answer in some measure to the...

Juvenile Courts. These courts first received statutory recognition by the (English) Children Act, 1908 (8 Edw. 7, c. 67). These...

Jury [fr. jurata, Lat.; jure, Fr.], a number of persons sworn to deliver a verdict upon evidence delivered to them...

Judgment [fr. judgment, Fr.], judicial determination; decision of a Court. Under the former practice of the superior Courts, this term...

Institutions. It was the object of Justinian to comprise in his Code and Digest, or Pandects, a complete body of...

Overseers of the poor (now abolished by (English) Rating and Valuation Act, 1925 (c. 90), ss. 1, 64), formerly public...

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Manor [fr. manerium, Lat.; manoir, Fr., habitation, or manendo, of abiding there, because the lord usually resided there], an estate...

Mandamus [we command). (1) A high prerogative writ of a most extensive remedial nature. In form it is a command...

Lives, Estate for. A lease to A. during the life of another or the lives of others was a tenure...

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