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Corsned bread [fr. Corsian, to curse, and snaed, a morsel, A.S.; panis conjuratus, or offa execrata, Lat., the morsel of execration, or ordeal bread]. It was a kind of superstitious trial or ordeal used among the Saxons, to purge themselves of any accusation, by taking a piece of barley bread and eating it with solemn oaths, curses, and excrations, that it might prove poison, or their last morsel, if what they asserted , or denied, were not true. 4 Bl. Com. 345, 414; and see Norton's City of London, 34d Edn. 36, 265....
Lada
Lada [fr. lathian, Sax.], a lath, or inferior Court of justice; also a course of water, or a broadway.Means purgation, exculpation. There were three kinds: (1) That wherein the accused cleared himself by his own oath, supported by the oaths of his consacramentals (compurgators), according to the number of which the lada was said to be either simple or three-fold; (2) Ordeal; (3) Corsned. See CORSNED BREAD.Means also, a service which consisted in supplying the lord with beasts of burden; or, as defined by Roquefort: Service qu'un vassal devoit a son seigneur, et qui consistoit a faire quelques voyages par ses betes de somme, Anc. Inst. Eng....
Corsned
The morsel of execration a species of ordeal consisting in the eating of a piece of bread consecrated by imprecation If the suspected person ate it freely he was pronounced innocent but if it stuck in his throat it was considered as a proof of his guilt...
Bread
Bread. The Acts (see Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Bread') relating to the sale of bread are the London Bread Act, 1822 (3 Geo. 4, c. cvi.) (metropolis), now repealed; and the Bread Act, 1836 (6 & 7 Wm. 4, c. 37), which, by s. 4 (as to which see Cox v. Blaines, (1902) 1 KB 670, explained in Mattinson v. Binley, (1908) 2 KB 534), prescribes that bread, 'except French, or fancy bread (as to which see Bailey v. Barsby, (1909) 2 KB 610) or rolls,' must be sold by weightm etc.; but the Weights and Measures Act, 1889 (52 & 53 Vict. c. 21), s. 32, makes a request by the purchaser an essence of the offence of refusal to weigh in the case of bread carried out in a cart, See Evans v. Jones, (1909) 99 LT 799; Lyons & Co. v. Houghton, (1915) 1 KB 489.S. 8 of the Act of 1836 enacts that the names, addresses and offences of bakers and others convicted of adulterating bread may be directed by the convicting justices to be published in some newspaper. S. 14 prohibits Sunday baking, and the consents for pro...
Assise of bread
Assise of bread, the fixed rate for the sale of bread. Long obsolete....
bread bin
a container used to store breads or cake to keep them fresh...
corn bread
a bread made from corn meal...
Graham bread
Bread made of unbolted wheat flour...
Soda bread
a bread made with buttermilk and leavened with baking soda...
Adulteration
Adulteration, the corrupt production of any article, especially food: indictable at common law, see R. v. Dixon, (1814) 3 M&S 11. The adulteration of bread, corn, meal, or flour is made a statutory offence by the Bread Act, 1836, and the (English) Bread Acts (Amendment) Act, 1922 (12 & 13 Geo. 5, c. 28), and that of food, including drink, generally by the (English) Food and Drugs (Adulteration) Act, 1928 (18 & 19 Geo. 5, c. 31).By the act the mixing, colouring, staining or powdering of any article so as to render it injurious to health, as to affect injuriously the quality of the drugs or lettering any article in such estate, in punishable for a first offence by a fine not exceeding 50l.; for a second offence by imprison-ment not exceeding six months. The sale to the prejudice of the purchaser of articles of food and drugs not of the nature, substance or quality demanded by the purchaser, is prohibited. Where however, the article is properly labelled as mixed, no liability arises. Prov...
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