Conqueror - Law Dictionary Search Results

1 ft 8 in wide by 213 ft long covered with embroidery representing the incidents of William the Conquerors expedition to England preserved in the town museum of Bayeux in Normandy It is probably of the 11th

Lineally

In a lineal manner as the prince is lineally descended from the Conqueror

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Justiciar or Justiciary, Chief

Justiciar or Justiciary, Chief, an officer instituted by William the Conqueror, of high importance in our early history, a lord chief justice. He presided in the King's Court and

Tenure

actually in the possession of the Crow in in the reign of Edward the Confessor or William the Conqueror. These tenants were esteemed highly privileged, for they could not be compelled to relinquish their lands at the

Subjugation

the modes of acquiring title, not the de facto but also the de jure title passes to the conqueror. After subjugation the inhabitants must obey the law such as are made and not resist them, R. Monteiro

Shilling

the English Saxons passed for 5d.; afterwards it represented 16d. and often 20d. In the reign of the Conqueror it was of the same denominative value as at this day, Domesday

Ornest

trial by battle, which does not seem to have been used in England before the time of the Conqueror, though originating in the kingdoms of the North, where it was practised under the name of holmgang, from

New forest

New forest, a royal forest in Hampshire, created by William the Conqueror. See 41 Geo. 3, c. 108; 48 Geo. 3, c. 72; 50 Geo. 3, c. 116; 51 Geo.

Manumission

when the master, by his will, gave his slave freedom. A Mong us, in the time of the Conqueror, villeins were manumitted by their master delivering them by the right hand to the viscount or sheriff in

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