pleading and in practice. In all cases where a suit may be brought in any court of record for the recovery of any debt founded on a verbal promise, book account, note, bond, penal or single bill, or all or any of them, and which from the amount thereof may not be cognizable before a justice of the peace, it shall be the duty of the plaintiff, either by himself, his agent or … [Read more...]

The act of appearing before a tribunal, either as plaintiff or defendant. Vide Ester en judgment. … [Read more...]

The old term for contract or obligation among the Jews, being a corruption from the Hebrew word "shetar," a covenant By an ordinance of Richard I., no starr was allowed to be valid, unless deposited in one of certain repositories established by law, the most considerable of which was in the king's exchequer at Westminster ; and Blackstone conjectures that the room in which … [Read more...]

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(A) To make known specifically; to explain particularly; as, to state an account, or to show the different items of an account; to state the cause of action in a declaration. (B) government. This word is used in various senses. In its most enlarged sense, it signifies a self-sufficient body of persons united together in one community for the defence of their rights, and to do … [Read more...]