Category: Legislation

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • Monstrans de Droit

    English Law: Monstrans de Droit in the Past Literally showing of right, in the English law, is a process by which a subject claim from the crown a restitution of a right. Bac. Ab. Prerogative, E; 3 Bl. 256; 1 And. 181; 5 Leigh’s Reports 512. [1][rtbs name=”history-of-english-law”] Resources […]

  • Monstrans de Droit

    English Law: Monstrans de Droit in the Past Literally showing of right, in the English law, is a process by which a subject claim from the crown a restitution of a right. Bac. Ab. Prerogative, E; 3 Bl. 256; 1 And. 181; 5 Leigh’s Reports 512. [1][rtbs name=”history-of-english-law”] Resources […]

  • Writ Of Monstraverunt

    English Law: Writ of Monstraverunt in the Past A writ which lies for the tenants of ancient demesne who hold by free charter and not for those tenants who hold by copy of court roll or by the rod, according to the custom of the manor. F. N. B. 31. [1][rtbs name=”history-of-english-law”] […]

  • Marches

    English Law: Marches in the Past This word signifies the limits or confines or borders. Bac. Law Tracts, tit. Jurisdiction of the Marches, p. 246. It was applied to the limits between England (see more about this legal system) and Wales or Scotland (see more about this legal system). In […]