(387) Shep. Touch. 10. Co. Litt. 56 b. Cottage. See acres of land laid to it. See 2 Show. 279. (388) (389) taking the degree of serjeant at law. Lord Raymond, describing a call of serjeants to the bar, observes that after being sworn, "they came to Gray's Inn Hall, where they rehearsed their counts, and were coifed, and then they walked to Westminster, and counted at the Common Pleas, according to custom," &c. 1 Ld. Raym. 604. So, on another occasion, he says of the serjeants, that being robed, "they were brought to the bar and counted," &c. 2 Id. 769. See T. Raym. 430, 478. Sir George Croke, describing the same ceremony, observes of the serjeants, that "every of them, after they came to the bar, had several writs and counts, which counts they recited, and after their counts recited and writs read by the prothonotary, one of the ancient serjeants imparled thereto," &c. Cro. Jac. 2. The same reporter, describing Sir Edward Coke's creation as a serjeant, on his being made Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, has recorded that "he was sworn in chancery as serjeant, and afterwards went presently into the treasury of the Common Pleas, and there, by Popham, Chief Justice, his party robes were put on, and he forthwith, the same day, was brought to the bar as serjeant; and presently after his writ read and count made, he was created Chief Justice," &c. Cro. Jac. 125. But the most minute description of this and other ceremonies attending the creation of serjeants, is given by the same reporter in the introduction to the third volume of his reports. Cro. Car. Introd. See T. Jon. 42. This characteristic ceremony of counting is still retained in the Court of Common Pleas, in cases where serjeants are created by writ issued in term. 18 C. B. (9 J. Scott,) 402. Trin. T. 1856. See Serjeant at law. (390) This term was formerly applied to wills, COUNTIE. L. Fr. leases, &c. in the sense of revocation. 5 Edw. III. 28. Termes de la Ley. 4 Co. 60, 61. Cowell. (391) pais.] In pleading and practice. The inhabitants of a district from which a jury is summoned in a cause.* "To make a certain jury of the country," were words of the old writ of venire facias. A jury, summoned, or to be summoned. In pleading, a defendant "puts himself upon the country," (ponit se super patriam,) i. e. refers the trial of his cause to a jury. A "conclusion to the country" is an offer of trial by jury. 3 Bl. Com. 315. 3 Steph. Com. 589. Steph. Pl. 73, 78, 230, 237. (392) William Blackstone, that in every court there must be at least three constituent parts, the actor, reus, and judex; the actor, or plaintiff, who complains of an injury done; the reus, or defendant, who is called upon to make satisfaction for it; and the judex, or judicial power, which is to examine the truth of the fact, to determine the law arising upon that fact, and if any injury appears to have been done, to ascertain and by its officers to apply the remedy. 3 Bl. Com. 25. A court may be more particularly described as an organized body with defined powers, meeting at certain times and places for the hearing and decision of causes and other matters brought before it, and aided in this its proper business, by its proper officers, viz. attorneys and counsel, to present and manage the business, clerks to record and attest its acts and decisions, and ministerial officers to execute its commands, and secure due order in its proceedings.* See Skene de Verb. Signif. voc. Curia. Com. 421, 422. 3 Bl. Com. 57. See Assize, Nisi Prius, Justices of assize. (393) York had their courts baron and courts leet. See Charters in Bolton's Hist. of Westchester. (394) . (395)