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 '''Continued''' ("the cause is continued to this day" (HCA 3/47 f. 6r, Wed. 7th June 1656))
 '''Contumacie''' (HCA 3/47 f. 10ar, Wed. 7th June 1656))
 '''Correspondent''' ("during the yeares 1653 and 1654 and alsoe in the yeare 1655 lived at Sivill with one M:r Anthony Upton & Company who were the Agents and correspondents of the aclate Christopher Boone" (HCA 13/71 f.382r))
 '''Cort day''' ("the next Cort day")
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 '''Possession''' ("quiet and peaceful possession [of property, such as a ship]")
 '''Posic(c)ons''' (alias Position) ("he doth not beleeve y:e sd posicons to be true")
 '''Precedent''' ("his p:rcedent answeres" (HCA 13/19))
 '''Precontest''' als. p:rcontest ("his precontest")
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 '''Session''' ("the Second session of Trinitie Term being Wednesday the seaventh day of June 1656" (HCA 3/47 f. 5v, Wed. 7th June 1656))
 '''Sign seale and deliver''' [a legal document, such as a will or contract] ("this deponent saw the sayd Samuel Travis sign seale and deliver the same as and for his Act and deed")
 '''Stayed''' ("the sd vessell did sett saile from Naples with ?some goods that shee there tooke in, and in her course towards London was stayed & taken by some vessell of warre belonging to the ffrench as he hath heard & beleeveth & was carryed to S:t Margaretta, and was there detained for some tyme in which tyme he beleeved the S:t Massagrene used meanes to gett of y:e s:d shipp & goods" (HCA 13/128)
 '''Summoned'''  ("the Judges at his peticon did decree the said ffredericke de Vincke and William Bussey to bee summoned to appeare personallie in the Hall in the Doctors Commons in the 8:th day after if x:r and to bringe with them the said Cobbwebb lawnes and to deliver them into Court that they may remaine under the said seizure untill  it shall be decided  by the rules of lawe and Justice  to whom they shall belong and to shewe cause if any they have why they should not be decreed to bee delivered to the said Balthazar Marke and John Salmons" (HCA 3/47, f. 1v, Tues., 3rd June 1656))

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 MarineLives project members are encouraged to add to the terms listed and to add short illustrative snippets from sample transcriptions available at [[MRP: Admiralty court cases|Admiralty Court Cases]].  The appropriate HCA reference, together with folio number, if available, should be noted in brackets after the snippet.
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 '''Accompt''' ("this deponents sole accompt" (HCA 13/68); ("transported to Dunkirke for the accompt and adventure of this deponents")
 '''Account'''
 '''Actuary''' ("one of the Actuaries of the Admiralty Court of Bridges")
 '''Advise''' ("lres of advise" (HCA 13/68))
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 '''Certificate''' ("the certificate is continued untill this day" (HCA 3/47 f. 6r, Wed. 7th June 1656))
 '''Charge''' ("they did freight and imploy their sayd five eighth parts upon their owne charge and Adventure as Owners & freighters of them" (HCA 13/73))
 '''Colourable'''
 '''Common Hall'''  ("the wor:ll Charles George Cocke Esq:r one of the Judges in the Common Hall" (HCA 3/47, f. 1v, Wed., 4th June 1656))
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 '''Denison''' ("he is a subiect of this Commonwealth and a denison of England")
 '''Deponent'''
 '''Designe''' ("The p:rmisses hee deposeth, being made privy to the said Designe and Voyage" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
 '''Dismissed''' ("the cause is dismissed with expences in case Cheeke shall not give a Libell and Baile this Day" (HCA 3/47 f. 8r, 7th June 1656))
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 '''Warrant''' ("made himselfe partie for them and  p:rsented to the Judge a warrant from his highnes the Lord Protector and his Councell for the issuinge forth of letters of Reprisall to the said Coxiter and Chadwick for the satisfaction of such summe" (HCA 3/47 f. 5r, 7th June 1656))

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 MarineLives project members are encouraged to add to the terms listed and to add short illustrative snippets from sample transcriptions available at [[MRP: Admiralty court cases|Admiralty Court Cases]].  The appropriate HCA reference, together with folio number, if available, should be noted in brackets after the snippet.
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 '''Actuary''' ("one of the Actuaries of the Admiralty Court of Bridges")
 '''Advise''' ("lres of advise" (HCA 13/68))
 '''Allegation''' ("an allegation given against him on that behalfe of..."); ("['Maior Crusoe' is the heading] for a copy of the Allegation 0: 3: 4" (HCA 2/75, no. fol.))
 '''Ancient''' ("a shipp of about a hundred & fifty tonnes birthen & having a white Ancient in her poope" (HCA 13/73)
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 '''Arlate''' ("onely one of the fowre English ships arlate" (HCA 13/19))
 '''Assigne''' ("Which day the Judges at Smiths peticon did assigne this cause to sentence upon Thursday the tenth day of this month of June in the afternoone" (HCA 3/47, f. 2r, Wed., 4th June 1656))
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 '''Barter'''
 '''Books of accounts''' ("hee hath perused the bookes of Accompts both of the sayd Anthony Upton the sayd Boones Agent at Sivill, and alsoe the books of Accompts of the sayd Boone, by both which hee doth finde that thes sayd Adrian Goldsmith did transfferre and ?sett over unto the sayd Christopher Boone severall parcells of silver in barrs, and Ryalls, and certayne quantities of Cotcheneale laden aboard the ''Sampson'' ''Salvador'' ''St George'' and ''Morning Starr'' aclate in consideration of the severall summes of two hundred thousand Realls" (HCA 13/71 f.372v))
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 '''Continued''' ("the cause is continued to this day" (HCA 3/47 f. 6r, Wed. 7th June 1656))
 '''Contumacie''' (HCA 3/47 f. 10ar, Wed. 7th June 1656))
 '''Cort day''' ("the next Cort day")
 '''Cost''' ("at their owne Cost charge & adventure" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
 '''Credibly''' ("hath bin Credibly informed that the said Cowling was borne at or neere Rippon in Yorkeshire" (HCA 13/73))
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 '''Interrogate'''
 '''Interrogatory (ies)''' ("Crosse Interries")
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 '''Reall and true''' ("the sayd bill of sale is reall and the Contents thereof true")
 '''Referreth''' ("he referreth himselfe to the Acts & Registry of this Court" (HCA 13/19): "To the 3.:d. hee cannot depose; saving hee referreth himselfe to his answer to the first Interrie, on y:e other part" (HCA 13/73))
 '''Reladeing''' ("the ladeing unladeing & reladeing of the sayd shipp" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
 '''Rendent(s)'''
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 '''Schedulate''' ("this rendent being M:r & Comander of the ship the ''Peter'' arlate did hyer y:e respective marriners schedulate to serve in the sd ship y:e ''Peter''for the monethly wayges therein menconed" (HCA 137128))
 '''Schedulated''' ("the said severall persons Schedulated" (HCA 13/125))
 '''Schedule''' ("hee was not prsent att y:e forming and figuring the said two schedules arlate"; "the schedule in this article mentioned" (HCA 13/73))
 '''Sentence''' ("To heare sentence at Cheeks peticon saving the examinacon of Suckleys witnesses in case hee shall procure them to bee examined before this day" (HCA 3/47 f. 6r, Wed. 7th June 1656))
 '''Session''' ("the Second session of Trinitie Term being Wednesday the seaventh day of June 1656" (HCA 3/47 f. 5v, Wed. 7th June 1656))

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 '''Interrogate'''
 '''Interrogatory (ies)''' ("Crosse Interries")
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 This page provides a dictionary of legal terms taken from mid-C17th High Court of Admiralty documents.
-MarineLives project members are encouraged to add to the terms listed and to add short illustrative snippets from sample transcriptions available at [[MRP: Admiralty court cases|Admiralty Court Cases]]
+MarineLives project members are encouraged to add to the terms listed and to add short illustrative snippets from sample transcriptions available at [[MRP: Admiralty court cases|Admiralty Court Cases]].  The appropriate HCA reference, together with folio number, if available, should be noted in brackets after the snippet.
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-'''Accompt''' ("this deponents sole accompt" (HCA 13/68))
+'''Accompt''' ("this deponents sole accompt" (HCA 13/68); ("transported to Dunkirke for the accompt and adventure of this deponents")
-'''Advise''' ("lres of advise" (HCA 13/68))
+'''Account'''
-'''Account''' ("transported to Dunkirke for the accompt and adventure of this deponents")
-'''Accounted''' ("commonly accounted reputed and taken")
 '''Actuary''' ("one of the Actuaries of the Admiralty Court of Bridges")
 '''Allegation''' ("an allegation given against him on that behalfe of..."); ("['Maior Crusoe' is the heading] for a copy of the Allegation 0: 3: 4" (HCA 2/75, no. fol.))
 '''Ancient''' ("a shipp of about a hundred & fifty tonnes birthen & having a white Ancient in her poope" (HCA 13/73)
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 '''Barter'''
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 '''Continued''' ("the cause is continued to this day" (HCA 3/47 f. 6r, Wed. 7th June 1656))
 '''Contumacie''' (HCA 3/47 f. 10ar, Wed. 7th June 1656))
-'''Cort day''' (“the next Cort day”
+'''Cort day''' ("the next Cort day")
 '''Cost''' ("at their owne Cost charge & adventure" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
 '''Credibly''' ("hath bin Credibly informed that the said Cowling was borne at or neere Rippon in Yorkeshire" (HCA 13/73))
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 '''Damnified''' ("the arlate Swift Parker & Harris & other her Owners were damnified" (HCA 13/73))
 '''Dead fraighted'''
-'''Decree'''  ("called by decree of this court" (HCA 3/47, f. 1v, Tues., 3rd June 1656))
+'''Decree''' ("called by decree of this court" (HCA 3/47, f. 1v, Tues., 3rd June 1656))
 '''Default''' ("the second default is granted" (HCA 3/47 f. 6v, Wed. 7th June 1656)); HCA documents describing court process refer to first, second and third defaults
 '''Denison''' ("he is a subiect of this Commonwealth and a denison of England")
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 '''Dismissed''' ("the cause is dismissed with expences in case Cheeke shall not give a Libell and Baile this Day" (HCA 3/47 f. 8r, 7th June 1656))
 '''Dispoiled''' ("surprized & tooke the sayd shipp ''Lady ffrigott'' and her ladeing of Currants & dispoiled the Owners thereof the same" (HCA 13/73))
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 '''Marshall'''
 '''Marshalsea'''
-'''Merits'''  ("the Court havinge made some entrance into the merits of this cause and finding that the same cannott according to the rules of justice bee determined without the p:rsence of William Thwaites the M:r of the said shipp whoe as was then made knowne to the Cort doth absent himselfe for feare of being arrested..." (HCA 3/47 f. 5r, 7th June 1656))
+'''Merits''' ("the Court havinge made some entrance into the merits of this cause and finding that the same cannott according to the rules of justice bee determined without the p:rsence of William Thwaites the M:r of the said shipp whoe as was then made knowne to the Cort doth absent himselfe for feare of being arrested..." (HCA 3/47 f. 5r, 7th June 1656))
 '''Monished''' (= ?admonished) (HCA 3/47 f. 5r, 7th June 1656))
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 '''Precontest''' als. p:rcontest ("his precontest")
 '''Predeposed'''
-'''Preparatory'''  ([In an undated list of charges] "ffor y:e deponns in y:e preparatory" (HCA 2/75, no. fol.)
+'''Preparatory''' ([In an undated list of charges] "ffor y:e deponns in y:e preparatory" (HCA 2/75, no. fol.)
 '''Pretended'''
 '''Pretensed''' ("To 4:th 5:th and 6:th pretensed posicons" (HCA 13/125))
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 '''Rendent(s)'''
 '''Registry''' (of the High Court of the Admiralty)
-'''Risque''' (" for his the said John Scrother the producents accompt and risque" (HCA 13/68))
+'''Risque''' ("for his the said John Scrother the producents accompt and risque" (HCA 13/68))
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-'''Schedulate''' (" this rendent being M:r & Comander of the ship the ''Peter'' arlate did hyer y:e respective marriners schedulate to serve in the sd ship y:e ''Peter''for the monethly wayges therein menconed" (HCA 137128))
+'''Schedulate''' ("this rendent being M:r & Comander of the ship the ''Peter'' arlate did hyer y:e respective marriners schedulate to serve in the sd ship y:e ''Peter''for the monethly wayges therein menconed" (HCA 137128))
 '''Schedulated''' ("the said severall persons Schedulated" (HCA 13/125))
-'''Schedule''' (" hee was not prsent att y:e forming and figuring the said two schedules arlate"; "the schedule in this article mentioned" (HCA 13/73))
+'''Schedule''' ("hee was not prsent att y:e forming and figuring the said two schedules arlate"; "the schedule in this article mentioned" (HCA 13/73))
 '''Sentence''' ("To heare sentence at Cheeks peticon saving the examinacon of Suckleys witnesses in case hee shall procure them to bee examined before this day" (HCA 3/47 f. 6r, Wed. 7th June 1656))
-'''Session'''  ("the Second session of  Trinitie Term being Wednesday the seaventh day of June 1656" (HCA 3/47 f. 5v, Wed. 7th June 1656))
+'''Session''' ("the Second session of Trinitie Term being Wednesday the seaventh day of June 1656" (HCA 3/47 f. 5v, Wed. 7th June 1656))
 '''Sign seale and deliver''' [a legal document, such as a will or contract] ("this deponent saw the sayd Samuel Travis sign seale and deliver the same as and for his Act and deed")
 '''Stayed''' ("the sd vessell did sett saile from Naples with ?some goods that shee there tooke in, and in her course towards London was stayed & taken by some vessell of warre belonging to the ffrench as he hath heard & beleeveth & was carryed to S:t Margaretta, and was there detained for some tyme in which tyme he beleeved the S:t Massagrene used meanes to gett of y:e s:d shipp & goods" (HCA 13/128)
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 ====W====
-'''Warrant'''  ("made himselfe partie for them and  p:rsented to the Judge a warrant  from his highnes the Lord Protector and his Councell for the issuinge forth of letters of Reprisall to the said Coxiter and Chadwick for the satisfaction of such summe" (HCA 3/47 f. 5r, 7th June 1656))
+'''Warrant''' ("made himselfe partie for them and  p:rsented to the Judge a warrant from his highnes the Lord Protector and his Councell for the issuinge forth of letters of Reprisall to the said Coxiter and Chadwick for the satisfaction of such summe" (HCA 3/47 f. 5r, 7th June 1656))

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 '''Pretended'''
 '''Pretensed''' ("To 4:th 5:th and 6:th pretensed posicons" (HCA 13/125))
-'''Producent'''
+'''Producent''' ("the said party pducent" (HCA 23/19 no f.))
 '''Prosecute the action''' (HCA 3/47 f. 4v, 7th June 1656))
 '''Protested''' ("the said Nortons bills being protested, the said ffactor had not moneyes to paye for the same and therefor could not nor would not lade them" (HCA 13/125))