A fund created by a charter of Queen Anne, (confirmed by St 2 Ann. c. 11,) for the augmentation of poor livings, consisting of all the revenue of first fruits and tenths, which was vested in trustees forever. 1 Bl. Comm. 286. … [Read more...]

Latin: In Roman law. Certain officers, two in number, who were deputed by the comitia, as a kind of commission, to search out and try all cases of parricide and murder. They were proba-. bly appointed annually. Maine, Anc. Law, 370. … [Read more...]

The English court of king's bench is so called during the reign of a queen. 8 Steph. Comm. 403. See KING'S BENCH. … [Read more...]

Lat. A writ of nuisance, which, by 15 Edw. I., lay against him to whom a house or other thing that caused a nuisance descended or was alienated ; whereas, before that statute the action lay only against him who first levied or caused the nuisance to the damage of his neighbor. Cowell. Qui abjurat regnnm amittit regnum, ?ed non regent; patriam, sed non patrem patriae. 7 Coke, 9. … [Read more...]

A jail which used to be appropriated to the debtors and criminals confined under process or by authority of the superior courts at Westminster, the high court of admiralty, and also to persons imprisoned under the bankrupt law. … [Read more...]