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Assises de Jerusalem

Assises de Jerusalem, a monument of feudal jurisprudence, compiled by Gottfried of Godfrey of Bouillon, for the government of the Holy City after its conquest by the Crusaders. It was revised in the 13th and 14th centuries for the use of the Latin Kingdom of Cyprus, 1 Colq. R. C. L. s. 80, p. 86...

Assise de utrum

Assise de utrum, an obsolete writ, which lay for the parson of a church whose predecessor had alienated the land and rents of it, Fitz. N. B. 48....

Assise of darrein presentment

Assise of darrein presentment, or last presentation; it lay when a person, or his ancestors, under whom he claims, had presented a clerk to a benefice who was duly instituted, and afterwards, upon the next avoidance, a stranger presents a clerk, thus disturbing the right of the lawful patron; upon this, the patron issued this writ, directed to the sheriff to summon an assize or jury, to inquire who was the last patron that presented to the church now vacant, of which the plaintiff complains that he is deforced by the defendant, Termes de la Lay. It was, however, abolished, and recourse had to the action of quare impedit (3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 27). But since the (English) C. L. P. Act, 1860, s. 26, quare impedit cannot be brought, an action in the King's Bench (formerly Common Pleas) Division of the High Court of Justice being substituted for it....

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