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Seal

73, deeds executed after 1925 must be signed or marked (by illiterates or blind persons), as well as sealed. As to the forgery of seals and dies, see Forgery Act, 1913, s. 5; and for the definition

High Steward, Court of the Lord

indicted for treason, felony, or misprision, appoints a Lord High Ste-ward pro vice, by commission under the Great Seal, which, reciting the indictment so found, gives him power to receive and try it secundum legem et consuetudinem

Fishery

been passed (1818), Newfoundland Fisheries, including France (1904); English Channel Fisheries (1826, 1839, 1867); North Sea Fisheries (1882); Seal Fisheries, see 57 & 58 Vict. c. 2, and succeeding Acts;Whaling, 1934 (24 & 25 Geo. 5, c.

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Greenwax

Greenwax, estreats delivered to a sheriff out of the Exchequer, under the seal of the Court, which was impressed upon green wax, to be levied, 7 Hen. 4, c. 3

Greenland fisheries

Greenland fisheries. See SEAL FISHERY ACT, 1875.

Institutions

reads the words of the institution out of a written instrument, drawn for this purpose, with the episcopal seal appended, which the clerk holds in his hand during the ceremony. Notice, one month before institution, must be

Homine eligendo ad custodiendam peciam sigilli pro mercatoribus editi

a writ directed to a corporation for the choice of a man to keep one part of the seal appointed for statutes-merchant, when a former is dead, according to the Statute of Acton Burnell, Reg. Brev. 178.

Lloyd's bonds

Lloyd's bonds. Instruments under the seal of a railway company, admitting the indebtedness of the company to a specified amount to the obligee, with

Instrumenta

Instrumenta, writings not under seal.

Judicial writs

Judicial writs, writs issuing from the court in which proceedings are commenced under its seal, and tested in the name of its chief judge, as distingui-shed from original writs, which issued out of

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