P. 260, c. 1.—“Inhibition,” ĭn-he-bĭshˈun. Restraint, hinderance.
“Judicature,” jūˈdi-ca-tūre. The administration of justice.
P. 260, c. 2.—“Common-law.” According to the _American Cyclopædia_,
common-law in the United States means the entire English law, including
even the foreign elements intermingled with it, in distinction from the
civil law generally received among European nations, and from the canon
law, except so far as adopted in the ecclesiastical courts of England.
Burrill defines it as “the unwritten law, or that body of customs, rules
and maxims which have acquired their binding power and the force of law,
in consequence of long usage, recognized by judicial decisions, and not
by reason of statutes now extant.” Of its origin, Sir Matthew Hale says
it is as “undiscoverable as the head of the Nile.”
“Norman-French.” The language of Normandy, a former northwestern province
of France. By the Norman conquest (1066) Norman French became the
language of the court and of equity in England.