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Admittance

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Copyhold

applicable to the species of tenure. (6) Copyholds are alienated by surrender, according to general custom, followed by admittance at the hands of the lord or his steward, and they are devisable. (7) A copyholder by general

Customary freeholds

ii. pp. 572 et seq.) They are usually transferred by surrender into the hands of the lord and admittance of the new tenant. Their customs, incidents, and services are similar to those already noticed as relating to

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Income

A coming in entrance admittance ingress infusion

knocker

knocks specifically an instrument or kind of hammer fastened to a door to be used in seeking for admittance

Burglary

the forcing of a door or the opening of a window, or constructive, as where the offender obtains admittance by fraud, is a necessary part of the offence of burglary, although entry without a breaking in is

Collatione facta uni post mortem alterius

bishop's clerk is departed this life; for judgment once passed for the King's clerk, and he dying before admittance, the King may bestow his presentation to another, Cun. Law Dict.; reg. Brev. 31 b.

Fines in copyholds

If the fine be certain, the tenant should come prepared to pay it, but the lord cannot refuse admittance because the fine is not tendered to him. When the fine is uncertain, the practice is to fix

Hue and Cry

that he is innocent; and where he takes refuge in a house, may break open the door, if admittance be refused; and by the Sheriffs Act, 1887 (50 & 51 Vict. c. 55), re-enacting 3 Edw. 1,

Resceit, or Receit

his right in a cause already commenced between two others persons, 13 Rich. 2, c. 17. Means the admittance of an interested third party to plead in a case between two others; intervention, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th

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