Hereditaments

Things capable of being inherited, be it corporeal or incorporeal, real, personal,
or mixed, and including not only lands and everything thereon, but also heirlooms
and certain furniture which, by custom, may descend to the heir together with the
land. Things which may be directly inherited, as contrasted with things which go
to the personal representative of a deceased. (Black's Law Dictionary, Henry
Campbell Black, 6^th ed., p. 726, West Pub. Co., St. Paul, MN, 1990)

Hue and Cry

In old English law, a loud outcry with which felons (such as robbers, burglars,
and murderers) were anciently pursued, and which all who heard it were bound to
take up, and join in the pursuit, until the malefactor was taken. (Black's Law
Dictionary, Henry Campbell Black, 6^th ed., p. 740, West Pub. Co., St. Paul, MN,
1990)

Ignoramus

Lat. "We are ignorant." "We ignore it." Formally the grand jury wrote this word
on bills of indictment when, after having hear the evidence, they thought the
accusation against the prisoner was groundless, intimating that, though the facts
might possibly be true, the truth did not appear to them;but now they usually
write in English the words "No Bill", Not a true bill, or "Not found," if that is
their verdict. But they are still said to ignore the bill. (Black's Law Dictionary,
Henry Campbell Black, 6^th. ed., p. 746, West Pub. Co., St. Paul, MN, 1990)

Imprimis

: in the first place - used to introduce a list of items or considerations (Webster's
Third New International Dictionary, p. 1137, G. & C. Merriam Co., Pub.,
Springfield, KM, 1967)

In propria persona

In one's own proper person. It was formerly a rule in pleading that pleas to
the jurisdiction of the court must be plead in propria persona, because if pleaded
by attorney they admit the jurisdiction, as an attorney is an officer of the court,
and he is presumed to plead after having obtained leave, which admits the
jurisdiction. (Black's Law Dictionary, Henry Campbell Black, 6^th ed, p. 792,
West Pub. Co., St. Paul, MN, 1990)

Made Known

Where a process or other legal paper has been actually served upon a
defendant, the proper return is that its contents have been "made known" to him.
A crime is "made known" to an officer when facts which come to knowledge of
the officer are such as to indicate to him that it is his official duty to act or to see
that an investigation of the alleged crime is instituted within his jurisdiction.
(Black's Law Dictionary, Henry Campbell Black, 6^th ed., p. 950, West Pub. Co.,
St. Paul, MN, 1990)

Messuage

Dwelling-house with the adjacent buildings and curtilage. Term formally
had a more extended signification. (Black's Law Dictionary, Henry Campbell
Black, 6^th ed. p. 990, West Pub. Co., St. Paul, MN, 1990)