Creditors, 17 La
Categories: Property
Definition (1910 Edition)
206; Barkley-v. His Creditors, 11 Rob. (La.) 22—Law eourt of apeals. In American law. An appellate triunal. ommcry existing in the state of South Carolina, for hearing appeals from the courts of law.—Law day. See Day.—Law French. The Norman French language, introduced into England by William the Conqueror, and which. for several centuries. was, in an emphatic sense, the language of the English law, being that in which the proceedings of the courts and of parliament were carried on, and in which many of the ancient statutes, reports, abridgments, and treatises were written and printed. It is called by Blackstone a “barbarous dialect,’ and the later specimens of it
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