Croft - Law Dictionary Search Results
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Croft [A.S., fr. Creaft, Old Eng., handicraft, or croit, Gael., a hump], a little close adjoining to a dwelling house or homestead, and enclosed for pasture, or arable, or any particular use....
Carafe
A glass water bottle for the table or toilet called also croft...
Croft
A small inclosed field adjoining a house a small farm...
Crofting
Croftland...
Garth
A close a yard a croft a garden as a cloister garth...
Parrock
A croft or small field a paddock...
Pendicler
An inferior tenant one who rents a pendicle or croft...
Canon law
Canon law. When Christian communities formed themselves into congregations ('kklhoiai), certain resolutions were agreed upon for their government; these were termed rules kavoves, forma, disciplina); and the phrases canonica sanctio, lex canonica, and canonum jura, were not introduced until the ninth century, nor the phrase jus canonicum until the canon law began in the twelfth century to be treated as a science. The canon law, properly so called, denotes the ecclesiastical law, sanctioned by the Church of Rome. It borrows from the Roman Law many of its principles and rules of proceeding, though not servilely, nor without such variations as the independence of its tribunals and the different nature of its authorities might be expected to produce, See Hall. Lit. Hist.The canons made in England in 1603, and revised in 1866, are binding on the clergy only, see per Lord Hardwicke in Middleton v. Croft, (1737) 2 Str 1056, some of them being very archaic, as canon 72, by which it is unlawful...
Croiteir
Croiteir, a crofter, one holding a croft....
Hamma
Hamma, a close joining to a house; a croft; a little meadow....
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