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Bride ale

A rustic wedding feast a bridal See Ale...


Ale-conner, or Ale-founder, or Ale-kenner

Ale-conner, or Ale-founder, or Ale-kenner [gustator, cerevisi' Lat.], one who kens or knows what good ale is; an officer appointed at a curt-leet, who is sworn to look at the assize and goodness of ale and beer within the precincts of the lordship, Kitch. 46. Thee were at one time four ale-conners, chosen by the liverymen of the City of London, in Common hall, on Midsummer-day, whose office it was to inspect the measures used in public-houses....


Fild-ale, or Filk-ale

Fild-ale, or Filk-ale [fr. fillen, sax., to fill, and ale], an ale-feast. A term applied to an extortionate practice of officers of the forest, and of bailiffs of hundreds, of compelling persons to contribute to the supplying them with drink etc., Prohibited by the Carta de Foresta, 4 Inst. 307....


Ale

Ale, See ALE-HOUSE, and see LICENSE....


Ale silver

Ale silver, a rent or tribute paid annually to the Lord Mayor of London, by those who sold ale within the liberty of the City, Blount's Law Dict....


Ale-house

Ale-house, a place where ale with other intoxicating liquors as deemed proper by the keeper, is sold by retail to be drunk on the premises where sold. Such a house, commonly called also a public-house, has for a long time, by a series of Acts consolidated in 1828 by 9 Geo. 4, c. 61 (styled 'The (English) Alehouse Act, 1828,' by the Short Titles Act, 1896, but [and more correctly 'The (English) Intoxicating Liquors Licensing Act, 1828,' by the Licensing Act, 1872], required a license from justices of the peace as well as an excise license; whereas the houses called beer-houses, first established in 1830 by 11 Geo. 4 & 1 Wm. 4, c. 64, required an excise license only until the passing of the Wine and Beerhouse Act, 1869. See INTOXICATING LIQUORS....


Ale-stake

Ale-stake, a maypole or long stake driven into the ground, with a sign on it for the sale of ale, Blount....


Ale-taster

Ale-taster, See ALE-CONNER....


Church ale

A church or parish festival as in commemoration of the dedication of a church at which much ale was used...


Asura marriage

Asura marriage, 'asura marriage' is a marriage where the bride's father or any other person entitled to give away the bride takes Sulka or price for giving the bride in marriage. The test is two-fold: there shall not only be benefit to the father, but that benefit shall form a consideration for the sale of the bride. When this element of consideration is absent, such a marriage cannot be described as Asura Marriage, Veerappa Chettiar v. S. Michael, AIR 1963 SC 933 (943): 1963 Supp (2) SCR 244....


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