In English law. A writ which lay against a bishop who, within six months after the vacation of a benefice, conferred it on his clerk, while two others were contending at law for the right of presentation, calling upon him to show cause why he had incumbered the church. Reg. Orig. 32. Abolished by 3 A 4 Wm. IV. c 27. … [Read more...]

money. A gold coin of the United States of the value of two dollars and a half. 2. It weighs sixty-four and one-half grains. Of one thousand parts, nine hundred are of pure gold, and one hundred of alloy. … [Read more...]

pleading, practice. When they may happen. When a defendant, executor, or administrator pleads plene administravit, the plaintiff may pray to have judgment of assets quando acciderint. Bull. N. P. 169; Bac. Ab. Executor, M. 2. By taking a judgment in this form the plaintiff admits that the defendant has fully administered to that time. … [Read more...]

Lat. When they shall come in. The name of a judgment sometimes given against an executor, especially on a plea of plene administravit, which empowers the plaintiff to have the benefit of assets which may at any time thereafter come to the hands of the executor. Quando aliquid mandatur, mandatur et omne per quod pervenitur ad illud. 5 Coke, 116. When anything is commanded, … [Read more...]

Lat. The name of an action in the civil law, (and in Louisiana,) brought by the purchaser of an article, for a reduction of the agreed price on account of defects in the thing which diminish its value … [Read more...]