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ich a summary of accounts is laid up or preserved; the final book of record in business transactions, in which all debits and credits from the journal, etc., are placed under appropriate heads. [Written also leger.]

Of or pertaining to the making of laws; suitable to legislation; as, the transaction of legislative business; the legislative style.

igence, the insurance, classification, registration, and certifying of vessels, and the transaction of business of various kinds connected with shipping.

ial use of the assembly; hence, the persons, collectively, who frequent such a place to transact business with the legislators; any persons, not members of a legislative body, who strive to influence its proceedings by personal agency. [U.S.]

nder; to carry off as plunder or a prize lawfully obtained by war. Looting parties . . . ransacking the houses. L.O

Formerly, among Teutonic nations, a meeting of the notables of a state for the transaction of public business, such meeting being a modification of the ancient popular assembly. Hence:

memorial account; a history composed from personal experience and memory; an account of transactions or events (usually written in familiar style) as they are remembered by the writer. See History, 2.

A brief or informal note in writing of some transaction, or an outline of an intended instrument; an instrument drawn up in a brief and compendious form. Memorandum check, a check given as an acknowledgment of indebtedness, but with the understanding that it will not be presented at bank unless the maker fails to take…

Belonging to the table; transacted at table; as, mensa conversation.

ative of a government, sent to the court, or seat of government, of a foreign nation to transact diplomatic business.

he state of being sent; a being sent or delegated by authority, with certain powers for transacting business; comission. Whose glorious deeds, but in these fields of late, Made emulous missions' mongst the gods themselves. Shak.

or stamped, and issued by the sovereign authority as a medium of exchange in financial transactions between citizens and with government; also, any number of such pieces; coin. To prevent such abuses, ... it has been found necessary ... to affix a public stamp upon certain quantities of such particular metals, as were…

asily sustained. Mustard grape (Bot.), a species of grape (Vitis candicans), native in Arkansas and Texas. The berries are small, light-colored, with an acid skin and a sweet pulp.

a story; to relate the particulars of; to go through with in detail, as an incident or transaction; to give an account of.

That which is related; the relation in words or writing of the particulars of any transaction or event, or of any series of transactions or events; story; history.

Of or pertaining to narration; relating to the particulars of an event or transaction.

One who narrates; one who relates a series of events or transactions.

To transact business; to carry on trade. [Obs.] Hammond.

The transaction of business between nations; the mutual intercourse of governments by diplomatic agents, in making treaties, composing difference, etc.; as, the negotiations at Ghent. An important negotiation with foreign powers. Macaulay.

ially in foreign countries. His duties chiefly relate to instruments used in commercial transactions, such as protests of negotiable paper, ship's papers in cases of loss, damage, etc. He is generally called a notary public.