ree of office were more frequent in practice during’ the continuance of the military, tenures than at present; and were devised by law as an authentic means to. give the king his right by solemn matter of record. Id. 258, : 4 Steph.:Comm. 40, 41. Sometimés simply termed “office,” as in the phrase “office found,” (g. v.) See Atlantic & P. KR. Co. v. Mingus, 165