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Definition (1910 Edition)
245.—8Straw bail. Nominal or worthless bail. Irresponsible persons, or men of no property, who make a practice of going bail for any one who will pay them a fee therefor.
16. He also has similar duties under the bankruptcy jurisdiction of the county courts. —Special bailiff. A deputy sheriff. appointed at the request of a party to a suit. for the special purpose of serving or executing some writ or process in such suit.
596-600; 2 Archb. Pr. 221; Ferguson v.
238.—Clerk of the peace. In English law. An officer whose duties are to officiate at sessions of the peace, to prepare indictments, and to record the proceedings of the justices, and to perform a number of special duties in connection with the affairs of the county. Clerk of the petty bag. See Petry Baa. —Olerk of the privy seal. There are four of these officers, who attend the lord privy seal, or. in the absence of the lord privy seal, the principal secretary of state. Their duty is to write and make out all things that are sent by warrant from the signet to the privy seal, and which are to be passed to the great seal; and also to make out privy seals (as they are termpa upon any special occasion of his majesty’s affairs, as for the loan of money and such like purposes. Cowell.—Clerk of the signet. An officer, in England, whose duty ‘it is to attend on the king’s principal secretary, who al-
460; Archb. New Pr. 639.
(6th Ed.) 48. Brown.
127. In trespass, where there was no recital, the expression used was, “For that.”
492; 8 Chit. Commer. Law, 633; 2 Hagg.
156.
834.—Notice to quit. <A written notice given by a landlord to his tenant. stating that the former desires to repossess himself of the demised premises, and that the latter ig requir ed to quit and remove from the same at a time designated, either at the expiration of the term, if the tenant is in under a lease, or immediately, if the tenancy is at will or by sufferance. The term is also sometimes applied to a written notice given by the tenant to the landlord, to the effect that he intends to quit the demised premises and deliver possession of the same on a day named. Garner vy. Hannah, 6 Duer (N. Y.) 270;
847; Chattanooga v. Neely, 97 Tenn. 527, 37 8. W. 281; Waterbury v. McMillan, 46 Miss. 640; Woods v. White, 97 Pa. 227.
396; Brown.
212.
290. And see McNulty v. Wiesen (D. C.) 130 Fed. 1013; Kelley v. Boettcher, 85 Fed.
1284.
848.
240, 241.—Term to conelude. In English ecclesiastical. practice. An appointment by the judge of a time at which both parties are underst to renounce all further exhibits and allegations.—Term to propess* all ° In English ecclesiastical practice. An appointment by the jvdge of a time at which both par ties are to exhibit all the acts and instruments which make for their respective causes.
280.
1427. WRIT OF FORMEDON. A writ which
16. He also has similar duties under the bankruptcy jurisdiction of the county courts. —Special bailiff. A deputy sheriff. appointed at the request of a party to a suit. for the special purpose of serving or executing some writ or process in such suit.
596-600; 2 Archb. Pr. 221; Ferguson v.
238.—Clerk of the peace. In English law. An officer whose duties are to officiate at sessions of the peace, to prepare indictments, and to record the proceedings of the justices, and to perform a number of special duties in connection with the affairs of the county. Clerk of the petty bag. See Petry Baa. —Olerk of the privy seal. There are four of these officers, who attend the lord privy seal, or. in the absence of the lord privy seal, the principal secretary of state. Their duty is to write and make out all things that are sent by warrant from the signet to the privy seal, and which are to be passed to the great seal; and also to make out privy seals (as they are termpa upon any special occasion of his majesty’s affairs, as for the loan of money and such like purposes. Cowell.—Clerk of the signet. An officer, in England, whose duty ‘it is to attend on the king’s principal secretary, who al-
460; Archb. New Pr. 639.
(6th Ed.) 48. Brown.
127. In trespass, where there was no recital, the expression used was, “For that.”
492; 8 Chit. Commer. Law, 633; 2 Hagg.
156.
834.—Notice to quit. <A written notice given by a landlord to his tenant. stating that the former desires to repossess himself of the demised premises, and that the latter ig requir ed to quit and remove from the same at a time designated, either at the expiration of the term, if the tenant is in under a lease, or immediately, if the tenancy is at will or by sufferance. The term is also sometimes applied to a written notice given by the tenant to the landlord, to the effect that he intends to quit the demised premises and deliver possession of the same on a day named. Garner vy. Hannah, 6 Duer (N. Y.) 270;
847; Chattanooga v. Neely, 97 Tenn. 527, 37 8. W. 281; Waterbury v. McMillan, 46 Miss. 640; Woods v. White, 97 Pa. 227.
396; Brown.
212.
290. And see McNulty v. Wiesen (D. C.) 130 Fed. 1013; Kelley v. Boettcher, 85 Fed.
1284.
848.
240, 241.—Term to conelude. In English ecclesiastical. practice. An appointment by the judge of a time at which both parties are underst to renounce all further exhibits and allegations.—Term to propess* all ° In English ecclesiastical practice. An appointment by the jvdge of a time at which both par ties are to exhibit all the acts and instruments which make for their respective causes.
280.
1427. WRIT OF FORMEDON. A writ which
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