(481) (482) stallum, a stall.] In old Scotch law. Foreign have a capacity of standing in judgment, merchants, (Sc. "creamers or forraine merchandes,") who, in the time of fair or market, pay certain duty for their stall or stand, in which they sell their merchandize. Skene de Verb. Signif. (483) tenebatur. Ita quod idem Judæus nec ha- nounced shtar,) were kept. That the redes sui nihil exigere possint de prædicto principal repository of these starrs was in Ade, nec de hæredibus suis, ratione terræ the king's Exchequer at Westminster, is de Stanmore de prædictis debitis. Which clearly shown by an ordinance of Richard may be translated thus: "This star made I. preserved by Hoveden; and the first [was made by] Hagius the son of Mager, of London, to the Lord Adam de Stratton for an acquittance of Stanmore, of all the debts in which the Lord S. de Cheyndut was bound to him. So that neither the said Jew nor his heirs can demand any thing of the said Adam or his heirs, on account of the land of Stanmore for the aforesaid debts." Reference is made both time the star-chamber is mentioned in any record, it is expressly said to have been situated near the receipt of the exchequer at Westminster. Rot. Claus. 41 Edw. III. m. 13. It may be added, in confirmation of this opinion, that the old technical title of the Rolls Office of the Chancery, (Domus Conversorum,) originated in a very similar way, it being held in a house built by Cowell and Blount, to the Plea Rolls, by King Henry III. for Jews converted to Pasch. 9 Edw. I. Rot. 4, 5, 6, where many stars, as well of grant and release, as obligatory and by way of mortgage, are pleaded and recited at large. In Selden's Titles of Honour, (p. 798, et seq.) there is a copy of a Hebrew shetar, taken from the records the Christian faith, but which, on the expulsion of the Jews by Edward III. was assigned as a place for the custody of the rolls and records of the chancery. Cowell, voc. Rolls. The law Latin and law French titles of this court are of no value in an ing of starr or star was forgotten. of the exchequer. By an ordinance of etymological point of view, as they seem Richard I. preserved by Hoveden, these to have become established at a comparaJewish starrs were commanded to be entively modern date, when the true meanrolled and deposited in chests under three keys, in certain places; one, and the most considerable of which, was in the king's exchequer at Westminster. 4 Bl. Com. 266, note. See Arca chirographica Judæorum. (484) In a recent case in the New-York Court certain condition, (qui statutam et destinatam in tempus vel conditionem libertatem habet.) Dig. 40. 7.