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Curt

Characterized by excessive brevity short rudely concise as curt limits a curt answer...

Husting [fr. hus-thing, A.-S.]. council, curt, tribunal; apparently so called from being held within a building at a time when other courts were held in the open air. It was a local curt. The county curt in the city of London bore this name. There were hustings at York, Winchester, Lincoln, and in other places, similar to the London hustings, Madox, Hist. Excheq., c. xx. Also the raised wooden platform from which candidates for seats in Parliament, prior to the (English) Ballot Act, 1872, addressed the constituency on the occasion of their public oral nomination, and from which a show of hands was taken by the returning officer.A deliberative assembly, esp. one called by kingor other loader, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 746...

Curtal

Curt brief laconic...

Curtes

Courteous...

Short spoken

Speaking in a quick or short manner hence gruff curt...

Ale-conner, or Ale-founder, or Ale-kenner

Ale-conner, or Ale-founder, or Ale-kenner [gustator, cerevisi' Lat.], one who kens or knows what good ale is; an officer appointed at a curt-leet, who is sworn to look at the assize and goodness of ale and beer within the precincts of the lordship, Kitch. 46. Thee were at one time four ale-conners, chosen by the liverymen of the City of London, in Common hall, on Midsummer-day, whose office it was to inspect the measures used in public-houses....

Land

Land, in its restrained sense, means soil, but in its legal acceptation it is a generic term, comprehend-ing every species of ground, soil or earth, whatso-ever, as meadows, pastures, woods, moors, waters, marshes, furze and heath; it includes also houses, mills, castles, and other buildings; for with the conveyance of the land the structures upon it pass also. And besides an indefinite extent upwards, it extends downwards to the globe's centre, hence the maxim, Cujus est solum ejus est usque ad c'lum et ad inferos; or, more curtly expressed, Cujus est solum ejus est altum. See Co. Litt. 4 a.In an (English) Act of Parliament passed after 1850 'land' includes messuages, tenements and hereditaments, houses, and buildings of any tenure, Interpretation Act, 1889, s. 3. By the Law of Property Act,1925, s. 205(1)(ix.), 'land' for the purposes of the Act includes land of any tenure, and mines and minerals, whether or not held apart from the surface, buildings or parts of buildings (whether th...

Sessions of the peace

Sessions of the peace, sittings of justices of the peace for the execution of those powers which are confided to them by their commission, or by charter, and by numerous statutes. They are of three descriptions:-I. Petty Sessions.--Metropolitan Police magistrates can act alone (see that title), with that exception, every meeting of two or more justices in the same place, for the execution of some power vested in them by law, whether had on their own mere motion, or on the requisition of any party entitled to require their attendance in discharge of some duty, is a petty or petit session. The occasions for holding petty sessions are very numerous, amongst the most important of which is the bailing persons accused of felony, which may be done after a full hearing of evidence on both sides, where the presumption of guilt shall either be weak in itself, or weakened by the proofs adduced on behalf of the prisoner. See PETTY SESSIONS.As to right of the public to attend petty sessions, see OP...

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