An oral will that is usually made when a person is facing imminent death. Valid only under limited circumstances and in some states. A will Which depends merely upon oral evidence, having been declared or dictated by the testator in his last sickness before a sufficient number of witnesses, and afterwards reduced to writing. … [Read more...]

Traffic at fairs and markets; any buying and selling. Nunquam crescit ex postfacto prae teriti delicti sestimatio. The character Of a past offense is never aggravated by a subsequent act or matter. Dig 50, 17, 139, 1; Bac. Max. p. 38, reg. 8; Broom, Max. 42. Nunquam decurritur ad extraordina ritun sed nei deficit ordinarium. We are never to resort to what is extraordinary! but … [Read more...]

Lat. In the civil and old English law. A fair. In nundinis et mercatis, in fairs and markets. Bract. fol. 56. … [Read more...]

pleading. A plea to an action of indebitatus assumpsit, by which the defendant asserts that he is not indebted to the plaintiff. … [Read more...]

In old English practice. A messenger. One who was sent to make an excuse for a party summoned, or one who explained as for a friend the reason of a party's absence. Bract fol. 345. An officer of a court; a summoner, apparitor, or beadle. Cowell. … [Read more...]