given bis deposition, reads the same over and scrutinizes it, with a view to affirming his satisfaction with it as it stands, or to making such changes in it as his better recollectlon may suggest té him as necessary to the truth. This ig necessary to the validity of the deposition. See Poth. Proc. Crim. § 4, art. 4.

A method of converting allodial land into feudal property. The owner of the allod surrendered it to the king or a lord, doing homage, and received it back: as a benefice or feud, to hold to himself and such of his heirs as he had previously nominated to the superior.