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  • Outer Bar

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

  • Legitim

    Note: the meaning is different from Legitimation. Legitim, or Bairn’s Part, in Scots law, the legal share of the movable property of a father due on his death to his children. If a father dies leaving a widow and children, the movable property is divided into three equal parts; one-third […]

  • Chancery

    History Chancery, in English law, the court of the lord chancellor of England, consolidated in 1873 along with the other superior courts in the Supreme Court of Judicature. Its origin is noticed under the head of Chancellor. It has been customary to say that the court of chancery consists […]

  • Chancery

    History Chancery, in English law, the court of the lord chancellor of England, consolidated in 1873 along with the other superior courts in the Supreme Court of Judicature. Its origin is noticed under the head of Chancellor. It has been customary to say that the court of chancery consists […]

  • Chancellor

    History The chancellor in England In England the office of chancellor dates back to the reign of Edward the Confessor, the first English king to use the Norman practice of sealing instead of signing documents; and from the Norman Conquest onwards the succession of chancellors is […]

  • Heresy

    Note: see also heresy in the European legal Encyclopedia and click here about heresy in the world. Heresy according to the Law of England: History The highest point reached by the ecclesiastical power in England was in the Act De Haeretico comburendo (2 Henry IV. c. 15). Some have […]

  • Petition of Right

    The Petition of Right, 1628 The difficulties of the administration were augmented not only by this arbitrary treatment of Parliament but also by the miserable failure of an English fleet sent against Cadiz, and by the humiliating result of an attempt to relieve the French Huguenots. […]

  • Leet

    Leet Court Leet Leet was an East Anglian term for a territorial and jurisdiction area, and court leet was a court held by right of franchise in which a private lord exercised the jurisdiction of the sheriff’s tourn. In the fourteenth century it spread over England. Leet jurisdiction was frequently exercised by lords of manors…

  • County Boroughs

    County Boroughs Those boroughs which from 1888 to 1974 were administrative counties in themselves for local government purposes and practically exempt from the jurisdiction of the council of the county in which they were situated. Source: The Oxford Companion to Law, 1980, p. 300.

  • County Boroughs

    County Boroughs Those boroughs which from 1888 to 1974 were administrative counties in themselves for local government purposes and practically exempt from the jurisdiction of the council of the county in which they were situated. Source: The Oxford Companion to Law, 1980, p. 300.

  • Comyn’s Digest

    Comyn’s Digest Details: Comyn’s Digest, Hammond, London, 1822 LONG TITLE: A digest of the laws of England (Volume 8 of 8). A Continuation of Comyns’ Digest of the Laws of England, brought down to the present time by a gentleman of the Inner Temple. fol. London. 1776. 2d ed. of Comyns’ Digest, with the continuation…

  • Court of Chivalry

    Court of Chivalry A judicial body dealing with military disputes and questions of the law of arms. In most countries courts-martial regulating the conduct of persons involved in war came first. They were presided over by monarchs or great officers of state such as earls marshal. In time heralds became the principal officers of and…

  • Gorris v Smith

    Gorris v Smith Gorris v Smith, April 23, 1874 Statute law can only be applied to do what Parliament passed it to do. In this case, a ship owner agreed to take the claimant’s sheep from Hamburg to Newcastle, but some of them were washed overboard. The owner of the sheep sued. He argued that…

  • Gorris v Smith

    Gorris v Smith Gorris v Smith, April 23, 1874 Statute law can only be applied to do what Parliament passed it to do. In this case, a ship owner agreed to take the claimant’s sheep from Hamburg to Newcastle, but some of them were washed overboard. The owner of the sheep sued. He argued that…

  • USA: How to Read Statutes, tambien Chapter 6

    How to Read Statutes Most legal research projects involve finding out what the law “is” in a particular circumstance. this usually involves finding a statute and then deciding how a court would interpret it given the facts in your situation. Courts consider it their responsibility to carry out the legislature’s will as expressed in its…