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Reconquest

A second conquest

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among European nations that planted settlements in parts beyond Europe. But by her own colonization, and by the conquests of the settlements of other nations, she was now acquired a more extensive dominion of colonies and dependencies

Tenure

of the feudal system, which displaced the laws obtaining in this country at the time of the Norman Conquest. Out of feudalism arose the maxim, that all lands in this kingdom were originally granted by our kings,

Norman-French

proceedings of state are still carried on. The language, having remained the same since the date of the Conquest, at which it was introduced into England, is very different from the French of this day, retaining all

Civil Law

of the Common Law. Under the influence of the foreign ecclesiastics, who, pouring into this country after the Conquest, long monopolized the administration of the law, great encouragement was given to the adoption of the Civil Law,

Count, or Countee

Count, or Countee [fr. Comte, Fr.; comes, Lat.], the most eminent dignity of a subject before the Conquest. He was pr'fectus or pr'positus comitatus, and had the charge and custody of the county; but this authority

Customs

their importation into, or exportation out of, a country. They seem to have existed in England before the Conquest, but the king's claim to them was first established by grant of Parliament in the reign of Edward

Mirror des justices

has raised much doubt and difference of opinion concerning its antiquity. Some have pronounced it older than the Conquest, others have ascribed it to the time of Edward II. This book, which bears the name of Andrew

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