(To whom before divorce.) A writ for a woman divorced from her husband to recover her lands and tenements which she had in fee- simple or in tail, or for life, from him to whom her husband alienated them during the marriage, when she could not gainsay it Reg. Orig. 233.
2 Inst. 493. An accessory matter is subject to the same jurisdiction as its principal.
For whose good; for whose use or benefit “Cui bono is ever of great weight in all agreements.” Parker, C. J., 10 Mod. 135. Sometimes translated, for what good, for what useful purpose. Cuicunque aliquis quid concedit con- cedere videtur et id, sine quo res ipsa esse non potuit. 11 Coke, 52. Whoever grants anything to another is supposed to grant that also without which the thing itself would be of no effect
He who gives a thing by mistake has a right to recover it back; but, if he gives designedly, it is a gift Dig. 50, 17, 53.
The criminal side of the court of king’s bench. The king’s attorney in this court is called “master of the crown office.” 4 Bl. Comm. 308.
A chapel or oratory underground, or under a church or cathedral. Du Cange.
One of the offices of the English high court of chancery, now transferred to the high court of justice. The principal official, the clerk of the crown, is an officer of parliament, and of the lord chancellor, in his nonjudicial capacity, rather than an officer of the courts of law.
In the civil and old common law. Kept for cutting; intended or used to be cut. A term applied to wood.
A paper containing the list of criminal cases which await the hearing or decision of the court, and particularly of the court of king’s bench; and it then includes all cases arising from informations quo warranto, criminal informations, criminal cases brought up from inferior courts by writ of certiorari, and cases from the sessions. Brown.
In old English law. A kind of trial, as appears from Bract lib. 4, tract 3, ca. 18, and tract 4, ca. 2, where it seems to mean, one by the ordinary jury.