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) A writ by which the king formerly exempted a person from arrest; -- now disused. [Eng.] Blackstone. (b) A judicial writ issued to a person required to attend court, as party, juror, etc., intended to secure him from arrest in coming, staying, and returning.

to a benefice before it became vacant, depriving the patron of his right of presentation. Blackstone.

peer . . . may make another lord of parliament his proxy, to vote for him in his absence. Blackstone.

uisne justices of the Court of Common Pleas; the puisne barons of the Court of Exchequer. Blackstone.

onstitutes battery. By the Cornelian law, pulsation as well as verberation is prohibited. Blackstone.

To acquire by any means except descent or inheritance. Blackstone.

villenage (Feudal Law), a tenure of lands by uncertain services at the will of the lord. Blackstone.

unt in an action to recover of the defendant, for goods sold, as much as they were worth. Blackstone.

To abate, annul, overthrow, or make void; as, to quash an indictment. Blackstone.

ameo). It is much used for making cameos. -- Queen consort, the wife of a reigning king. Blackstone. -- Queen dowager, the widow of a king. -- Queen gold, formerly a revenue of the queen consort of England, arising from gifts, fines, etc. -- Queen mother, a queen dowager who is also mother of the reigning king or q…

ion; specifically, a judicial or official investigation; also, examination under torture. Blackstone. He that was in question for the robbery. Shak. The Scottish privy council had power to put state prisoners to the question. Macaulay.

eserved in grants of land, by the payment of which the tenant is quit from other service. Blackstone.

, to inquire by what warrant a person or a corporation acts, or exercises certain powers. Blackstone.

he full annual value of the tenement, or near it; an excessive or unreasonably high rent. Blackstone.

ense and the discharge of the offender; also, a fine paid in lieu of corporal punishment. Blackstone. Ransom bill (Law), a war contract, valid by the law of nations, for the ransom of property captured at sea and its safe conduct into port. Kent.

children from their parents, or a ward from his guardian, or of a wife from her husband. Blackstone.

equence of other land or recompense given to the parson in lieu and satisfaction thereof. Blackstone. -- Real estate or property, lands, tenements, and hereditaments; freehold interests in landed property; property in houses and land. Kent. Burrill. -- Real presence (R. C. Ch.), the actual presence of the body and bl…

Real estate; a piece of real property. Blackstone.

oinder. The plaintiff may answer the rejoinder by a surrejoinder; on which the defendant. Blackstone.

, without force or violence, from one who has taken them and who wrongfully detains them. Blackstone. Writ of recaption (Law), a writ to recover damages for him whose goods, being distrained for rent or service, are distrained again for the same cause.Wharton.