Category: Legislation

  • 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 […]

  • Outlaw

    Concept of Outlaw; Outlawry The following is an old definition of Outlaw; Outlawry [1], a term which has several meanings:1. Outlawry is putting a man out of the protection of the law, so that he is incapable of bringing an action to redress an injury, and forfeits his goods and chattels to […]

  • Petit, Treason

    English Law: Petit, Treason in the Past The killing of a master by his servant; a hushand by his wife; a superior by a secular or religious man. In the United States of America this is like any other murder. See High, Treason; Treason. [1][rtbs name=”history-of-english-law”] Resources Notes […]

  • Plaint

    English Law: Plaint in the Past The exhibiting of any action, real or personal, in writing; the party making his plaint is called the plaintiff. [1][rtbs name=”history-of-english-law”] Resources Notes and References Partialy, this information about plaint is based on the Bouvier´s Law […]

  • Sergeant Or Serjeant

    English Law: Sergeant or Serjeant in the Past An officer in the courts of the highest grade among the practitioners of the law. [1][rtbs name=”history-of-english-law”] Resources Notes and References Partialy, this information about sergeant or serjeant is based on the Bouvier´s Law […]

  • Mise

    English Law: Mise in the Past In a writ of right which is intended to be tried by the grand assize, the general issue is called the mise. Lawes, Civ. Pl. 111; 7 Cowen, 51. This word also signifies expenses and it is so commonly used in the entries of judgments in personal actions; as…

  • Mandavi Ballivo

    English Law: Mandavi Ballivo in the Past The return made by a sheriff (see law enforcement in the U.K. encyclopedia), when he has committed the execution of a writ to a bailiff of a liberty, who has the right to execute the writ. [1][rtbs name=”history-of-english-law”] Resources Notes and […]

  • Mandavi Ballivo

    English Law: Mandavi Ballivo in the Past The return made by a sheriff (see law enforcement in the U.K. encyclopedia), when he has committed the execution of a writ to a bailiff of a liberty, who has the right to execute the writ. [1][rtbs name=”history-of-english-law”] Resources Notes and […]

  • Vaccaria

    English Law: Vaccaria in the Past A word which is derived from vacca, a cow and signifies a dairy-house. Co. Litt. 5 b. [1][rtbs name=”history-of-english-law”] Resources Notes and References Partialy, this information about vaccaria is based on the Bouvier´s Law Dictionary, 1848 edition. […]

  • Outer Bar

    Outer Bar (utter Bar) Junior barristers, collectively, who sit outside the bar of the court, as opposed to Queen’s Counsel.

  • Tithing

    English Law: Tithing in the Past Formerly a district containing ten men with their fam-ilies. In each tithing there was a tithing man whose duty it was to keep the peace, as a constable now is bound to do. St. Armand, in his Historical Essay on the Legislative Power of England (see more about […]

  • Tithing

    English Law: Tithing in the Past Formerly a district containing ten men with their fam-ilies. In each tithing there was a tithing man whose duty it was to keep the peace, as a constable now is bound to do. St. Armand, in his Historical Essay on the Legislative Power of England (see more about […]

  • Wager Of Law

    English Law: Wager of Law in the Past When an action of debt is brought against a man upon a simple contract and the defendant pleads nil debit and concludes his plea with this formula, “And this he is ready to defend against him the said A B and his suit, as the court of…

  • To Make

    English Law: To Make in the Past To perform or execute; as to make his law, is to per- form that law which a man had bound himself to do; that is, to clear himself of an action commenced against him, by his oath and the oaths of his neighbors. Old Nat. Br. 161. To…

  • To Make

    English Law: To Make in the Past To perform or execute; as to make his law, is to per- form that law which a man had bound himself to do; that is, to clear himself of an action commenced against him, by his oath and the oaths of his neighbors. Old Nat. Br. 161. To…