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Home Dictionary Name: ancientsAncient demesne
Ancient demesne, a tenure now abolished by s. 128 of the (English) L. P. Act, 1922 (12 & 13 Geo. 5, c. 16), see COPYHOLDS, but formerly existing in certain manors, which, though now granted to private persons, were in the actual possession of the Crown in the times of Edward the Confessor and William the Conqueror, and appear to have been so by the great survey in the Exchequer called Domesday Book, and, therefore, whether lands are ancient demesne or not, is to be tried only by this book, called in consequence Liber Judicatorius; but the question must be tried by a jury whether lands be parcel of a manor which is ancient demesne, being a question of fact. There is great confusion in the books respecting this tenure. It is only the freeholders of the manor who are truly tenants in ancient demesne, and land held in ancient demesne, passes by common law conveyance without the instrumentality of the lord. The copyholders is an ancient demesne manor are merely to be considered as occupying...
Ancient monument
Ancient monument, means any structure, erection or monument, or nay tumulus or place of interment, or any cave, rock sculpture, inscription or monolith, which is of historical, archaeological or artistic interest and which has been in existence for not less than one hundred years, and includes-(i) the remains of an ancient monument,(ii) the site of an ancient monument,(iii) such portion of land adjoining the site of an ancient monument as may be required for fencing or covering in or otherwise preserving such monument, and(iv) the means of access to, and convenient inspection of an ancient monument. [Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains Act, 1958 (24 of 1958), s. 2(a)]...
Ancients
Ancients, gentlemen of the Inns of Court and Chancery. In Gray's Inn the Society consists of benchers, ancients, barristers, and students under the bar; and here the ancients are of the oldest barristers. In the Middle Temple, those who had passed their readings used to be termed ancients. The Inns of Chancery consisted of ancients and students or clerks; from the ancients a principal or treasurer was chosen yearly....
Ancient law
Ancient law, uniformly refuse to dispense with a single gesture, however, grotesque, with a single syllable, however its meaning may have been forgotton; with a single witness, however superfluous may be his testimony. The entire soleminises must be scrupulously completed by persons legally entitled to take part in them, or else the conveyance is null, and the seller is re-established in the rights of which he had vainly attempted to divest himself. Henry S. Maine, Ancient Law, 225-26 (17th Edn. 1901).Ancient law, is the law of antiquity, considered esp. either from an anthropological standpoint or from the standpoint of tracing procedure to modern law, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 85....
Ancient Monuments
Ancient Monuments. See (English) Ancient Monu-ments Consolidation and Amendment Act, 1913 (3 & 4 Geo. 5, c. 32), and (English) Advertisements Regulation Act, 1925 (15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 52); (English) Ancient Monuments (Ireland) Act, 1892; and post, MONUMENTS....
ancient
ancient : existing from a long past date ;specif : having had an uninterrupted existence of 20 to 30 or more years NOTE: Things and esp. documents that are ancient benefit from a presumption that they are valid even though proof of their validity may be unavailable due to lapse of memory, absence of witnesses, or loss of documents. ...
Ancient lights
Ancient lights, windows, glazed or unglazed, through which the access of light has been enjoyed otherwise than by consent or permission for twenty years and upwards, See LIGHT; Gale or Goddard on Easements; and Prescription Act, 1832 (2 & 3 Wm. 4, c. 71)....
Ancient Serjeant
Ancient Serjeant, the eldest of the Queen's Serjeants, See Manning's Serviens ad legem, 19-20, and SERJEANT....
Ancient writings
Ancient writings, documents upwards of 30 years old. These are presumed to be genuine without express proof, when coming from the proper custody. The judge decides in each case whether the custody is proper, Taylor on Evidence...
Tenure
Tenure, cannot be equated with 'terms and con-ditions of services' or payment of gravity or pension. Tenure when followed by words of office, means term of office, Punjab University v. Khalsa College, Amritsar, AIR 1971 P&H 479: 1971 Cur LJ 334.Means a right, term, or mode of holding lands or tenements in subordination to a superior; in fendal times, real property was held predominantly as part of a tenure system, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1481.Tenure, the mode of holding property. The only tenures in land now existing with a few unimpor-tant exceptions are (1) free and common socage in fee-simple, including enfranchised copyhold, which is subject to paramount incidents; and (2) a term of years absolute (see LAND). The idea of tenure or holding is said to derive from feudalism, which separated the dominium directum (the dominion of the soil), which it placed mediately, or immediately, in the Crown, from the dominium utile (the possessory title), the right to use the profits ...
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