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ing the ftated fees, an original or originat writ, from the 
court of chancery, in which all the king’s writs are framed. 
This is a mandatory letter from the king in parchment, 
fealed with his great feal, and directed to the fheriff of the 
to the determination of the caufe. In {mall adtions, 
wever, below the value of ae which are brought i in the 
court-baron, or county-court, n writ is neceflary ; 
but the foundation of fuch faite. continues to be, as in the 
that is, by a privats memorial ten en court to 
the judge, wherein the party injured et f forth, his caufe of 
ation, and the judge is bou right to a 
minifter juftice ae einen any fpecial mandate from 
e ow, indeed, the royal writs are held to be de- 
mandable of common right, on payisg the ufual fees; for 
any delay in the granting of them, or fetting an unufual or 
exorbitant be upon them, would bea breach of Magna 
Carta, c. 29. “© nolli ee nulli negabimus, aut dif- 
feremus “juititiam vel certum,’”” 
Original writs are either optional or peremptory § s or, in the 
ie age of our law Wyers, they are either a ‘* precipe’’ or 
‘fi té fecerit fecurum ;” ae ee. Both f{pecies of writs 
‘ witnefs 
See Si. 
ALIA, in the Exchequer, are records or tran- 
{cripts font to the remembrancer’s office out of chancery. 
They differ from recorda, which sae the judgments 
and ee a in fuit tried before the bar 
RY, OricginaRi, amo e Romans, an 
appellation ae to pe ue in their me fer? s houfes, who 
were otherwife called ver 
ORIHUELA, in Ceegraph ry, called hese by the Ro- 
mans, Orzuella by t oths, Orguella by the Moors, and 
Orihuela by the Aragonele a and the acd is a tolerably 
large town of Spain, in the province of Valencia, soe ebly 
fituated at the foot of the mountain of the fame name, on 
both banks of te ae which runs through it, and 
whieh, on the confines = a be per Nagi forms the 
continuation of the Huerta of Mur This town was 
taken from the Contetans the Cantera, from them 
by the Romans, and from thefe by the Goths; it was con- 
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mountain, its ate is contiderable. It is tolerably well 
built; the ftreets are in general airy, ftraight, and broad, 
but not paved. The eleven principal ftreets are handfome, 
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and the broadeft of them have pavements on each fide. It 
has many regular edifices, and houfes of good appearance. 
It has two bridges over the Segura, feven gates, and five 
{quares. It has no fountains, fo that the inhabitants drink 
the water of the Segura. he population is about 20,000 
perfons. In 15 ope Leo X. eftablifhed a bifhop’s fee 
di 
urches, nine 
colleges, one of which 
A {mall hee was 
es Ww e roots: = at terebinthus, called in 
fh ** Cornicabra,”’ e fo mired on ac- 
count of their beautifal fhedes: poole ae landfcapes, &c. 
The inhabitants are commended of their 
manners, and for the 
adjacent lands. 
tiful, and forms a fucceffion of gardens, producing aeetdiie nce 
and variety of fruits, fuch as oranges and lemons, almonds 
The fertility of the foil has occafioned 
pr there is wheat in Orihuela. 
Here are raifed filk-worms in great number; which furnith 
the inhabitants with a new fource of wealth. N. lat. 38° 9!, 
. one 1° 5! 
-ORIHUELA, a town of 2 ae in the province of Aragon ; 
18 mile N.W. of Albarra 
ORIHVASI, a town oF Sweden, in Tavaftland; 40 
miles N. of Tavafthus 
ORIJAVA, a town of Spain, in the province of Gra- 
nada; 12 miles N. of Motril. 
ORI of 
LAH, a town of Bengal; feven miles W. 
Ramgur. 
ORILLO 
rane with a wall; raifed. o 
N, in Forti ification, a {mall rounding of earth, 
on the fhoulder of thofe baftions 
that have cafemates, to cover the cannon in the retired flank, 
and prevent their being difmounted by the enemy. The 
method of ie ae ee and retired flanks, according 
to M. Vauban’s firft method, is ftated under the article 
Military ConsTRUC 
OR ATELA, i in Ge ography, a town of Pe aee in 
the province of Tavaftland ; 45 miles E.S.E. of Tavafthus. 
ORING, a lake of Thi bet, 63 ame in Eee ines 
ie} fe} 
N. lat. 34 E. long. 97° 29’. 
ORINGA, a fea-port of Japan, in the ifland of Niphon. 
ORINIACOORA, a town of Bengal; 15 miles N. of 
Nuldingah. 
ORINOKO. See Onoonox 
KO. 
NZA, a town of Perfia, in the province of Irak ; 
41 miles E. . Ifpahan. 
OR RIA, a town of Spain, in Guipufcoa, on 
the ane at the mouth of a river of the fame name, 
urrounded by walls ; ou miles W. of St. Sebaftian. 
ORIOLUS, the Oriole, in Ornithology, a genus of birds 
of the order — of whic eric chafacter is: a 
conical, convex, very fharp poi i 
upper ma andible is a little ne ia 
{curely emarginated ; the tongue is bifid oa fharp ; and 
feet are formed for walking. There are 51 {pecies Buca a 
in Gmelin’s Linnéus; the birds-are generally —— 
gregar 
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