MESSENGER

One who bears me ages or errands; 11. ministerial officer employed by e.xecutive officers, legislative bodies, and courts of justice, whose service consists principally in carrying verbal or written communications or executing other orders. In Scotland there 11.re officers attached to the courts, called "me engers at arms." An officer attached to a bankruptcy court, whose duty consists, among other things, in seizing and taking po e ion of the bankrupt's estate during the proceedings In 'bankruptcy. The me enger of the English court of chancery has the duty of attending on the great seal, eilher in person or by deputy, and must be ready to execute all such orders as he shall receive from the lord chancellor, lord keeper, or lords commi ioners. Brown. Me is 1ementem 1equitur, The crop belongs to [follows] the sower. A maxim in Scotch law. Where a person is in po e ion of land which he has reason to believe is his own, and sows that land, he will have a right to the crops, although before it is cut down it should be discovered that another has a preferable title to the land. Bell. [s. 782]