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Mirror des justices
concerning its antiquity. Some have pronounced it older than the Conquest, others have ascribed it to the time of Edward II.
Customs
country. They seem to have existed in England before the Conquest, but the king's claim to them was first established by
Count, or Countee
Lat.], the most eminent dignity of a subject before the Conquest. He was pr'fectus or pr'positus comitatus, and had the charge
Civil Law
the foreign ecclesiastics, who, pouring into this country after the Conquest, long monopolized the administration of the law, great encouragement was
British settlement
British settlement, denotes a British possession, not acquired by conquest or cession, which is not for the time being within
Brehon Law
by which Ireland was governed at the time of its conquest by Henry II.; 'a rule of right, unwritten but delivered
Paternity
governments. It was the law in this country until the Conquest, Beck's Med. Jurisp. See ACCESS.
Agri limitati
Agri limitati, lands belonging to the state by right of conquest, and granted or sold in plots, Sand. Just.
Assises de Jerusalem
Bouillon, for the government of the Holy City after its conquest by the Crusaders. It was revised in the 13th and
Agraria lex
among the Roman people lands which they had gained by conquest, or to limit the quantity of such land possessed by
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