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Lawless Court

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

Lawless Court [quia dicta sine lege, Lat.], 'a tribunal held on King's Hill, at Rochford, in Essex, on Wednesday morning next after Michaelmas Day, yearly, at cock-crowing, at which Court they whisper, and have no candle, nor any pen nor ink, but a coal; and he that owes suit or service there, and appears not, forfeits double his rent.'-Cam. Brit. Obsolete.

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