Gloucester

Concept of Gloucester

Traditional meaning of gloucester [1] in the English common law history: The statute of this name was made in the sixth year of the reign of Edward I. (1278), providing for costs in actions; giving a writ of cessavit ( (see this last concept in this legal reference) ) to lessors of tenants in fee-farm, and to the heir an immediate writ of entry in cases where a dowress alienated the land (in casu proviso); providing that no suit for trespass de bonis under 40s. should be brought in the superior courts, that an appeal of, murder should not abate for default of fresh suit, that no waste should be committed pending a suit about the lands, that a citizen of London, disseised of land, and suing therefor, should recover damages as well, etc.; etc. [rtbs name=”history-of-english-law”]

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Notes and References

1. Based on A concise law dictionary of words, phrases and maxims, “Gloucester”, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911, United States. This term and/or definition may be absolete. It is also called the Stimson’s Law dictionary, based on a glossary of terms, included Gloucester.

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