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Home Dictionary Name: baronCustomary Court-baron
Customary Court-baron, a court which should be kept within the man or for which it is held. It may be held anywhere within the manor, at the pleasure of the person holding it, unless some ancient custom require it to be held in a certain place.The court-baron was to be held from three weeks to three weeks, or, as some think, as often as thelord chose. And it should seem clear, tht the lord may hold a customary court as frequently as he pleases, and compe the attendance of his tenants who hold by villein or base services, 2 Wat.Cop., c. i. p. 9; and see Elton or Scriven on Copyholds.It is to be observed that although there should be no freeholders of the manor, by which the Court-baron or freeholders' court is lost, yet still there mabe a customary court; for as these two courts are distinct (though frequently held at the same time, the same roll serving to record the proceedings of both), the want of freeholders does not preclude the lord from holding a customary court for his copyhold...
Court-baron
Court-baron, a court which, before 1926 (see COPYHOLDS), although not one of record, was incident to every manor, and could not be severed therefrom. It was ordained for the maintenance of the services and duties stipulated for by lords of manors, and for the purpose of determining actions of a personal nature, where the debt or damage was under forty shillings.This court might be held at any place within the manor, giving fifteen days' notice, including three Sundays. Of the day when the court will be held; but three or four days' notice have been deemed sufficient. It was frequently held together with the court-leet, and generally assembled but once a year.The freehold tenants alone were suitors to the Court-baron; and it was essential to the existence of the court that there should be two suitors at the least; for since freemen can only be tried by their peers or equals, should there be but one freeman, he could then have no peer or judge, and consequently he had to appeal to the co...
Baron and feme
Baron and feme [fr.], husband and wife. A wife being under the protection and influence of her Baron, lord, or husband, is styled a feme-covert (f'mina viro cooperta), and her state of marriage is called her coverture. See HUSBAND AND WIFE....
Baron Court
Baron Court. See Court BARON....
Chief Baron of the Exchequer
Chief Baron of the Exchequer, the presiding judge in the court of Exchequer, and afterwards in the Exchequer Division of the High Court of Justice. In 1881, after the death of Lord Chief Baron Kelly, the office was abolished by Order in Council under s. 31 of the Jud. Act, 1873, and merged in that of Lord Chief Justice of England....
Baron
Baron [fr. beorn, Sax., noble], the fifth and lowest degree of nobility, next to a viscount, and above that of a knight or baronet. In the Salic Law it signifies free-born. The present barons are-(1) By prescription; for that they and their ancestors have immemorially sat in the Upper House.(2) Barons by patent, having obtained a patent of this dignity to them and their heirs, male or otherwise. (3) Barons by tenure, holding the title as annexed to land; it is said that it is the possession of their ancient landed territories which imparts the barony to the bishops, there by giving them a place in the Upper House, although they hold by succession, not by inheritance; but it is rather thought that they sit in the Upper House by immemorial usage....
Covert-baron
Covert-baron, said of a wife who is under the protection of her husband....
Cursitor Baron of the Exchequer
Cursitor Baron of the Exchequer, an officer whose business it was to pass the accounts of the sheriffs, etc. See Manning;s Exchequer Practice, p. 322 and note. The office was abolished by 19 & 20 Vict. c. 86....
Exoneratione secta ad curiam baron
Exoneratione secta ad curiam baron, a writ of the same nature, issued by the guardian of the Crown's ward, and addressed to the sheriff or stewards of the Court, forbidding them to distrain him, etc., for not doing suit of Court, etc., Ibid....
Prender de baron
Prender de baron (to take a husband)....
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