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Intention and knowledge

state in which mental faculties are aroused into activity and summoned into action for the purpose of achieving a conceived end.

Last Court

the twenty four jurats in the marshes of Kent, and summoned by the bailiffs, whereby orders are made to lay and

Latitat

(he lies hid), a writ whereby all persons were originally summoned to answer in personal actions in the King's Bench; so

Recorder of London

and aldermen, and attends the business of the city when summoned by the lord mayor, etc.; but by the Local Government

Nisi prius

as the general course of proceedings, writs of venire for summoning juries to the superior courts are in the following terms:-P'cipius

Ouster le Mer

the sea; a cause of excuse, if a person, being summoned, did not appear in court. see SEAS, BEYOND.

Paritor

Paritor [fr. apparitor, Lat.], a beadle; a summoner to the Courts of civil law.

Privy

indefinite, and is dependent upon the royal will. It is summoned on a warning of forty-four hours, and never held without

Ragman's-roll, or Ragimund's-roll

from one Ragimund, or Ragimont, a legate in Scotland, who, summoning all the beneficed clergymen in that kingdom, caused them on

Risk Note

LR 10 HL 473, in which it was held, after summoning the judges, that the contracts must be both reasonable and

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