Beadle - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: beadleBeadle, or Bedel
Beadle, or Bedel [fr. beodan, bydel, A. S., to bid], a church-servant who is chosen by the vestry, and whose business is to attend the vestry, to give notice of its meetings, to execute its orders, to attend upon inquests, and to assist the constables. A crier or messenger of a Court, who cites men to appear and answer; an inferior officer of a parish or liberty. Many other kinds of subordinate officers are socalled....
Beadle
A messenger or crier of a court a servitor one who cites or bids persons to appear and answer called also an apparitor or summoner...
Beadlery
Office or jurisdiction of a beadle...
Beadleship
The state of being or the personality of a beadle...
Bedel
Same as Beadle...
Bluecoat
One dressed in blue as a soldier a sailor a beadle etc...
Kirk-officer
Kirk-officer, the beadle of a church in Scotland....
Paritor
Paritor [fr. apparitor, Lat.], a beadle; a summoner to the Courts of civil law....
Quod clerici non eligantur inofficio ballivi, etc
Quod clerici non eligantur inofficio ballivi, etc., a writ which lay for a clerk, who, by reason of some land he had, was made, or was about to be made, bailiff, beadle, reeve, or some such officer, to obtain exemption from serving the office, Reg. Brev. 187....
Surrender of copyholds
Surrender of copyholds. The following note affects the title to copyholds, as it existed before their abolition by the (English) Law of Property Act, 1922. Copyholds were not, as a general rule, alien-able by any of the Common Law assurances. A surrender (which is vocabulum artis) is the yielding up of a legal tenancy in a copyhold estate, either by express words or operation of law, by the tenant after admittance, or by his lawful appointed attorney, either in or out of Court, to the lord of the manor in person, his chief steward, or under-steward; or, by special custom, to the bailiff, beadle, or reeve, or to certain tenants of the manor, either as a relinquishment or resignation of such estate, or as the medium of conveying or transferring it to another. Surrenders were made in various forms-in some manors by a rod, in others by a straw, in others by a glove, or some other symbol, which is delivered by the surrenderor to the steward or other person taking the surrender in the name o...
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