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Grant
over to make conveyance of to give the possession or title of to convey usually in answer to petition
Respondeat ouster
Respondeat ouster (let him answer over). If a demurrer is joined in a plea to the jurisdiction, person, or writ, etc., and it be judged that the defendant put in a more
Winding-up
by s. 265, the commencement of the winding-up being deemed to correspond with the presentation of a bankruptcy petition (for the date of commencement of a winding-up by the Court, see s. 175; of a voluntary winding-up,
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King's Bench
civil causes: the former in what is called the Crown side or Crown office, the letter in the plea side of the Court. On the Crown side it took cognizance of all criminal causes, from high treason
sur
sur [Anglo-French, on, upon, from Latin super over] : on the basis of : with regard to [ petition for rehearing]
Common Pleas, the Court of
Common Pleas, the Court of, so called because its original jurisdiction was to determine controversies between subject and subject, one
court of common pleas
court of common pleas often cap C&C&P : an intermediate-level court in some states (as Arkansas, Connecticut, and Ohio) having limited jurisdiction
Cognizance, or conusance
an acknowledgment of a fine; and in replevin it was, before the Judicature Acts the name for the pleading of a defendant who acted as bailiff, etc., to another in making a distress, by which he alleged
proceeding
a civil or criminal proceeding in the nature of a trial that is conducted without formalities (as indictment, pleadings, and usually a jury) for the speedy and peremptory disposition of a matter supplementary proceeding : a proceeding
Cape
Cape, a judicial writ touching a plea of lands or tenements, divided into cape magnum, or the grand cape, which lay before appearance to summon
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