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Coke, Sir Edward

Institutes and The Reports (see those titles), and of an edition of Littleton's Treatise on Tenures. A famous text-writer and reporter among English lawyers, one of whose great characteristics, however, has been not unjustly said by Sir

Boni judicio est ampliare jurisdictionem

to be erroneous, and Lord Mansfield, in R. v. Philips, (1757) 1 Burr. 304, observes that the true text is 'justitiam,' and not 'jurisdictionem.'

Answers to questions

causes an answer to be printed in the official Report; in the event of a discrepancy between the texts of the answers sent to the member and the official Report, the text sent to the member is

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Authorities

Authorities, the citations which are made of laws, acts of the legislature, precedents, decided cases, and opinions of text writers. See PRECEDENT.

Ante

Ante, occurring in a report or a text-book, is used to refer the reader to a previous part of the book.

Adult

means systematic assessment of the adequacy of the management system to achieve the purpose set out in the text, carried out by persons who are sufficiently independent of the system to ensure that such assessment is objective,

Scholium

A marginal annotation an explanatory remark or comment specifically an explanatory comment on the text of a classic author by an early grammarian

Factory

lace warehouses, paper mills, flax scutch mills, rope works and hat works shall not be deemed to be textiles factories. 'Tenement factory' means a factory when mechanical power is supplied to different parts of the same building

Emendatio

the power of amending and correcting abuses, according to stated rules and measures. Correction or revision esp. of text, Black's Law Dictioanry, 7th Edn., p. 541.

Possibility on a possibility

par. 125 et seq; and Wolst. And Ch Conveyancing Acts. Post, after: occurring in a report or a text-book, is used to direct the reader to a subsequent part of the book. A conveyance for letters or

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