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  • JAMUNLINGI, JAMUNDILINGI
    Freemen who delivered themselves and property to the protection of a more powerful person, in order to avoid military service and other burdens. Spelman. Also a species of serfs among the Germans. Du Cange. The same as cowmen dati*
  • JANITOR
    In old English law. A door-keeper. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 24. In modern law. A janitor is understood to be a person employed to take charge of rooms or buildings, to see that they are kept clean and in order, to lock and unlock them, and generally to care for More...
  • JAQUES
    In old English law. Small money.
  • JAVELIN-MEN
    Yeomen retained by the sheriff to escort the judge of assize.
  • JAVELOUR
    In Scotch law. Jailer or gaoler. 1 Pltc. Crim. Tr. pt. 1, p. 33.
  • JEDBURGH JUSTICE
    Summary justice inflicted upon a marauder or felon without a regular trial, equivalent to "lynch law." So called from a Scotch town, near the English border, where raiders and cattle lifters were often summarily hung. Also written "Jeddart" or "Jedwood" Justice.
  • JEMAN
    In old records. Yeoman. Cowell ; Blount
  • JEOFAILE
    L. Fr. I have failed; I am in error. An error or oversight in pleading. Certain statutes are called "statutes of amendments and jeofailes" because, where a pleader perceives any slip in the form of his proceedings, and acknowledges the error, (jeofatle,) he is at liberty, by those statutes, to More...
  • JEOPARDY
    Danger; hazard; peril. Jeopardy is the danger of conviction and ' punishment which the defendant in a criminal action incurs when a valid indictment has been found, and a petit jury has been impaneled and sworn to try the case and give a verdict. State v. Nelson, 26 Ind. 368; More...
  • JERGUER
    In English law. An officer of the custom-house who oversees the wait-era. Techn. Diet
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