Crowing - Law Dictionary Search Results
Lawless Court
Lawless Court [quia dicta sine lege, Lat.], 'a tribunal held on King's Hill, at Rochford, in Essex, on Wednesday morning next after Michaelmas Day, yearly, at cock-crowing, at which Court they whisper, and have no candle,...
Chanticleer
A cock so called from the clearness or loudness of his voice in crowing
Scarecrow
Anything set up to frighten crows or other birds from cornfields hence anything terifying without danger
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Garrulinae
A subfamily of the crow family including the jays
Jay
of birds belonging to Garrulus Cyanocitta and allied genera of the family Corvidae They are allied to the crows but are smaller more graceful in form often handsomely colored and usually have a crest
Raven
A large black passerine bird Corvus corax similar to the crow but larger and has a harsh loud call It is native of the northern parts of Europe Asia
Tenure
which separated the dominium directum (the dominion of the soil), which it placed mediately, or immediately, in the Crown, from the dominium utile (the possessory title), the right to use the profits in the soil, designated by
King's keys
King's keys. The King's keys are, in law phrase, the crow-bars and hammers used to force doors and locks in execution of the King's warrant, Scott's Antiquary.
Re-entry
covenant has been denounced by a judge of the greatest eminence as 'a most odious stipulation', Hodgkinson v. Crowe, (1875) LR 10 Ch 626, per Sir Wm. James, L.J., but in practice is certainly common enough. A
Route
vehicle between one terminus and another. The point is that it is not a notional line 'as the crow files' but the actual highway as a motor vehicle travels from one terminus to another, K. Venkamma v.
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