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Naqdirazan
Naqdirazan, naqdirazan is money commutation for the obligation of maintaining a specified number of horses. This is clearly a grant for military service,
Redemption
to the mortgagor on the latter paying the mortgage debt. See EQUITY OF REDEMPTION; PROVISO FOR REDEMPTION. 2. Commutation or the substitution of one lump payment for a succession of annual ones: e.g., see the Land Tax
Salt silver
one penny paid at the feast day of St. Martin, by the tenants of some manors, as a commutation for the service of carrying their lord's salt from market to his larder, Paroch. Antiq. 496.
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Thirlage
flour or meal, varying from a thirtieth to a twelfth part, which was termed 'multitude.' This servitude was commuted for an annual payment in grain by 39 Geo. 3, c. 55. See Bell's Scots Law Dict.
Lammas lands
(English) Repealed Act, 1839 (2 & 3 Vict. C. 62), s. 13; Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Tithe,' as to commutation of tithe thereon, and see Baylis v. Tyssen Amherst, (1877) 6 Ch D 500.
Lardingmoney
masts of the lord's wood, the fat of a hog being called lard; or it may be a commutation for some customary service of carrying salt or meat to the lord's larder, Dugd. Mon., t. 1, p.
lesion
receive a threshold amount or value (as one-half market value) for immovable property conveyed or transferred by a commutative contract (as a sale or exchange) [a new partition may be demanded for the least "Louisiana Civil Code"]
Kerhere
Kerhere, a customary cart-way; also a commutation for a customary carriage duty.
Justifiable homicide
to feed upon his body. The prisoners in this case were sentenced to death, but the sentence was commuted to six months' imprisonment.
Justice
man what is his due, opposed to injury or wrong. It is either distributive, belonging to magistrates, or commutative, respecting common transactions among men. See JUSTITIA.
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