Abjure - Law Dictionary Search Results
abjure
Matched in: Term abjure
Abjure
Matched in: Term Abjure
Sanctuary
York, or in London to Whitefriars or the Savoy, within forty days, on confession and taking oath of abjuration of the realm (see ABJURATION), escape to a foreign country, under the disability of not being able to
Keep your definitions linked to case research
Abjuratio et Juramentum Latronum
Abjuratio et Juramentum Latronum, the oath which had to be taken by a thief who had claimed sanctuary and
Abjuration
Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 5. Abjuration [fr. abjuro, Lat.], a forswearing or renouncing by oath. To abjure is to retract, recant or abnegate a position on oath. 'Abjuration of the realm,' in the old law,
Nemo apatriam in qua natus est exuere nec ligenti' debitum ejurare possit
debitum ejurare possit. Co. Litt. 129, (No man can disclaim the country in which he was born, nor abjure the bond of allegiance.) But see EXPATRIATION and ALIEN.
Supremacy, Oath of
and is to this effect:- I, A.B., to swear that I do from my heart abhor, detest and abjure as impious and heretical this damnable doctrine and position, that Princes excommunicated or deprived by the Pope, or
Deportation
transportation sentences for less than fourteen years, and the latter Act abolished transportation entirely. See TRANSPORTATION. Exile, an abjuration, which is a deportation for ever into a oreign land, was anciently with us a civil death. Compare
H'retico comburendo, De
De, an ancient common law writ against a heretic, who having been convicted of heresy by the bishop, abjured it, and afterwards fell into the same again, or some other, and was thereupon delivered over to the
Parentela
was done for a just cause. We read of it in the laws of Henry I. After such abjuration, the person was incapable of inheriting anything from any of his relations, etc.
- ‹ Prev
- 2
- Next ›
- Last »
Try the research workspace - 7 days free