Category: Civil Law

  • Justiciarii Residentes

    English Law: Justiciarii Residentes in the Past They were justices or judges, who usually resided in Westminster; they were so called to distinguish them from justices in eyre. Co. Litt. 293. Vide Justiciarii Itinerantes. [1][rtbs name=”history-of-english-law”] Resources Notes and References […]

  • Division

    Definition of Division In accordance with the work A Dictionary of Law, this is a description of Division : The taking of a vote on any matter in either House of Parliament.

  • Division

    Definition of Division In accordance with the work A Dictionary of Law, this is a description of Division : The taking of a vote on any matter in either House of Parliament.

  • Jure, Writ Of

    English Law: Jure, Writ of in the Past The name of a writ commanding the defendant to show by what right he demands common of pasture in the land of the complainant, who claims to have a fee in the same. F. N. B. 299. [1][rtbs name=”history-of-english-law”] Resources Notes and References […]

  • Statute Merchant

    English Law: Statute Merchant in the Past A security entered before the mayor of London or some chief warden of a city, in pursuance of 13 Ed. 1. stat. 3, c. 1, wnow the lands of the debtor are conveyed to the creditor, till out of the rents and profits of them, his debt may…

  • Statute Merchant

    English Law: Statute Merchant in the Past A security entered before the mayor of London or some chief warden of a city, in pursuance of 13 Ed. 1. stat. 3, c. 1, wnow the lands of the debtor are conveyed to the creditor, till out of the rents and profits of them, his debt may…

  • Maile

    English Law: Maile in the Past A small piece of money; it also signified a rent, because the rent was paid with maile. [1][rtbs name=”history-of-english-law”] Resources Notes and References Partialy, this information about maile is based on the Bouvier´s Law Dictionary, 1848 edition. There […]

  • Maile

    English Law: Maile in the Past A small piece of money; it also signified a rent, because the rent was paid with maile. [1][rtbs name=”history-of-english-law”] Resources Notes and References Partialy, this information about maile is based on the Bouvier´s Law Dictionary, 1848 edition. There […]

  • Rectory

    English Law: Rectory in the Past Corporeal real property (see more about this popular legal topic in the U.K. encyclopedia), consisting of a church, glebe lands and tithes. 1 Chit. Pr. 163. [1][rtbs name=”history-of-english-law”] Resources Notes and References Partialy, this information […]

  • Charter-land

    English Law: Charter-land in the Past Land formerly held by deed under certain rents and free services and it differed in nothing from free socage land. It was also called bookland. 2 Bl. Com. 90. [1][rtbs name=”history-of-english-law”] Resources Notes and References Partialy, […]

  • Charter-land

    English Law: Charter-land in the Past Land formerly held by deed under certain rents and free services and it differed in nothing from free socage land. It was also called bookland. 2 Bl. Com. 90. [1][rtbs name=”history-of-english-law”] Resources Notes and References Partialy, […]

  • Sovereign

    English Law: Sovereign in the Past The name of a gold coin of Great Britain (the countries of England, Scotland and Wales) (see more about the British legal system here) of the value of one pound sterling. [1][rtbs name=”history-of-english-law”] Resources Notes and References Partialy, this […]

  • Sovereign

    English Law: Sovereign in the Past The name of a gold coin of Great Britain (the countries of England, Scotland and Wales) (see more about the British legal system here) of the value of one pound sterling. [1][rtbs name=”history-of-english-law”] Resources Notes and References Partialy, this […]

  • Primer Seisin

    History of Primer Seisin Primer Seisin, which is usually regarded as a separate incident, and figures as such in Blackstone’s list, is perhaps better understood, not as an incident at all, but as a special procedure—effective and summary—whereby the Crown could enforce the four incidents […]

  • Rules

    English Law: Rules in the Past The rules of the King’s Bench and Fleet are certain limits without the actual walls of the prisons, where the prisoner, on proper security earlierly given to the marshal of the king’s bench or warden of the fleet, may reside; those limits are considered, for all […]