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Tenure

tenure were reliefs or payments upon succession aids, or contributions to the lord, wardships and marriage of heirs succeeding in infancy and escheat. Grand serjeanty was another species of tenure which some writes think was superior to

Treason

according to the limitations of the (English) Act of Settlement (12 & 13 Wm. 3, c. 2), from succeeding to the crown, and shall maliciously and directly attempt the same by any overt act, 1 Anne, st.

Venire facias de novo

Where a verdict could have been amended, a venire de novo was never awarded. If awarded, the party succeeding at the second trial was not entitled to the costs of the first. It has since been superseded

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Distributive finding of the issue

are bound to give their verdict for that party who, upon the evidence, appears to them to have succeeded in establishing his side of the issue. But there are cases in which an issue may be found

Double complaint, or Double quarrel

Bishop of Exeter, (1850) 19 LJ Ex 376, CP 200, QB 279, in which the plaintiff, a clerk, succeeded on appeal in duplex querela against the defendant for not instituting him on the ground of alleged unorthodox

Desudation

A sweating a profuse or morbid sweating often succeeded by an eruption of small pimples

Dialogus de scaccario

of Gervase of Tilbury; but Mr. Madox thinks it was written by Richard Fitz-Nigel, Bishop of London, who succeeded his father in the office of treasurer, in the reign of Richard I., and was therefore qualified for

VerbarSchema

the mind as five dots in a line are a schema of the number five a preceding and succeeding event are a schema of cause and effect

alternate

alternate 1 : occurring or succeeding by turns 2 : being an alternative [ juror] n 1 : alternative 2 : one that substitutes

court of claims

Virginia) that has jurisdiction primarily over cases involving claims against the state 2 cap : a former court succeeded by the United States Claims Court see also united states court of federal claims

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