English practice. An exchequer process, formerly much used, and now liable to be abused. … [Read more...]

civil law. By this term is understood the person who alone becomes bound for the debt of another, whether the latter were obligated or not. He differs from a surety, who is bound together with his principal. … [Read more...]

English practice. An execution issuing out of the exchequer at the suit 'of the crown. It is a mere fiscal writ. 2. When land was extended at a valuation too low, there was no remedy at common law but to pay the money. 15 H. VII. Nor yet in chancery, unless there was fraud, because the extent was made by the oath of a jury, and deemed reasonable according to the writ of extent … [Read more...]

This word properly denotes a voluntary surrender of rights or claims; the act of divesting oneself of that which was previously claimed as one's own, or renouncing. It In this sense it to the opposite of "appropriation." But a meaning has been attached to the term, imported from its use in foreign jurisprudence, which makes it synonymous with the exercise of the power of … [Read more...]

In old records. The rents and profits of an estate. … [Read more...]