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Sayer

Sayer, means all sorts of imports in addition to land revenue and does not include minerals, Secretary of State of India v.

or knighting the son, and all tenures of the king in capite, be likewise taken away; and that all sorts of tenures held o the king or others be turned into free and common socage, save only tenures

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Copyhold

and with the lord's licence he may lease for any number of years. (8) Copyholds are liable to all sorts of debts, by 3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 104, and the (English) Judgments Act, 1838 (1 &

Rent

of a manor, which cannot be departed from. Those of the freeholders are frequently called chief-rents, and both sorts are indifferently denominated quit-rents, because thereby the tenant goes quit and free of all services. (6) Rack-rent, a

Game

Game [fr. gaman, Sax.], all sorts of birds and beasts that are objects of the chase. The term is defined by the Game Act,

Executory devise

to another, may be adduced as an instance of the latter part o this description. (3) The third sort of executory devises, comprising all that relates to chattels, is where a term or any personal estate is

Pr'dial tithes

Pr'dial tithes [fr. pr'dium, Lat., ground], such as arise merely and immediately from the ground 'as grain of all sorts, hops, hay, wood, fruit, herbs, 2 Steph. Com.

Drapery

is used as a head in our old statute books, and extended to the making and manufacturing of all sorts of woollen cloths.

Firearms

Firearms. This word comprises all sorts of guns, fowling-pieces, blunderbusses, pistols, etc. Their discharge in a street is penal. A weapon that expels a

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