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218. _ “Fact” is very frequently used in opposition or contrast to “law.” Thus, questions of fact are for the jury ; questions of law for the court. So an attorney ai lav is an officer of the courts of justice; an attorney in fact is appointe...
CITACION. In Spanish law. Citation; summons; an order of a court requiring a person against whom a suit has been brought to appear and defend within a given time.
Lat. A citation or summons
96, 109 Alabama ;—Walker’s Pennsylvania Reports.
(or Proo.). Code of Civil Procedure.
lLovinier v. Pearce, 70 N. C. 171. :
English law. A writ to a justice of the common pleas, or other, who has power to take a tine, who, having taken the fine, defers to certify it, commanding him to certify it.
pany or society of men, having certain privfleges, and endowed with certain revenues, founded by royal license. An assemblage of several of these colleges is called a “univer-
49, 59 Pac. 954. 377, .60 Pac. 186; Evans’ Appeal,
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Lat. Comity, courtesy, civility. Comittas inter communitates; or comt tas inter gentes; comity between communi- . ties or nations; comity of nations. 2 Kent,
A writ by which the charge of a county, together with the keeping of a castle, is conmitted to the sheriff.
OCOMITY. Courtesy; complaisance; respect; a willingness to grant a privilege, not as a matter of right, but out of deference and good will.
fiicers appointed by and attached to the circuit courts of the United States, performing functions partly ministerial and partly judicial. To a certain extent they represent the judge in his absense. In the examination of persons arrested for violati...
duties with the lord’s court.
696. COURT OF INQUIRY. In English
A comparison by the juxtaposition of two writings, in order, by such comparison, to ascertain whether both were written by the same person.
1-4 New York Court of Appeals.
Lat. <A confession. Confessto in judicio, a confession made in or before a court.
ancient name for what is now known as “constructive” contempt of court. Bx parte
Lat. An association, fellowship, or partnership. Applied by some of the older writers to a corporation, and even to a nation considered as a body politic.
FICIUM. A writ directed to those who had thrust a bailiwick or other office upon ‘one in holy orders, charging them to release ‘nim. Reg. Orig. 143.
Lat. A custom; an established usage or practice. Co. Litt. 58.
old English law. A writ that lay where tenants in common were bound to do some act, and one of them was put to the whole burthen, to compel the rest to make contribution. Reg. Orig. 175; Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 162.
0.& P:R. Cooper’s Chancery and Practice Reporter, Upper Canada. t. Br. Cooper's Oases tempore Brougham. , t. Cott. Cooper’s Cases tempore Cottenham, English Chancery. - t. Eld. Cooper’s Cases tempore EBdon, Bnglish Chancery.
old English law. A clerk belonging to the staple, to write and record the bargains of merchants there made.
purpose of advising as to the points of law involved, or preparing the case on its legal side, or arguing questions of law to the court, or preparing or conducting the case on its appearance before an appellate tribuhal, are said to be. “of counsel...
rect the special pleadings, to manage the cause on trial, and, during the whole course of the suit, to apply established principles of law to the exigencies of the case. 1 (Fr.
COUNTER-ROLLS. In English law. The rolls which sheriffs have with the coroners, containing particulars of their .proceedings, as well of appeals as of inquests, etc. 8 Edw. Lc. 10.
sel to present and manage the business, clerks to record and attest its acts and decisions, and ministerial officers to execute its commands, and secure due order in its pea ca Ex parte L. Fr. From time whereof memory runneth not; time out of memory...