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Deputy steward, a steward of a manor may depute or authorize another to hold a Court; and the acts done in a Court so holden will be as legal as if the Court had been holden by the chief steward in person. so an under-steward or deputy may authorize another as sub-deputy, pro hac vice, to hold a Court for him; such limited authority not being inconsistent with the rule delegatus non potest delegare. By the Copyhold Act, 1894, s. 94, and the Law of Property Act, 1922, 'deputy steward' included in the statutory meaning of 'steward.'This deputy or under-steward may be appointed either in writing or by parol, although the appointment of the chief steward should not contain an express authority for that purpose....
Steward of manor
Steward of manor, the lord's deputy, who transacts all the legal and other business connected with the estate, and takes care of the Court-rolls. The office is usually held by the lord's solicitor. The office has been deprived of much of its importance in consequence of the abolition of copyhold tenure by the (English) Law of Property Act, 1922 (see COPYHOLDS). The scale of compensation to the steward of the manor if he was appointed before the 29th June, 1922, is provided for by the 14th Sch. of the (English) Law of Property Act, 1922, and see the (English) L.P. (Amendment) Act, 1924. See also the (English) L.P. Act, 1922, and the (English) Enfranchised Land (Stewards' Fees) Regulations, S.R. & O., 1926, No. 3, as to fees payable to stewards upon extinguishment of manorial incidents and upon the compulsory production of assurance of former copyholds to him. Upon a vacancy for three months in the office and on other occasions the Lord Chancellor may upon default of the lord of the mano...
Court-leet
Court-leet. [Coke says leet is a Saxon word, and comes from the verb gelathian, or gelethian (g being added euphoni' gratia), i.e., convenire, to assemble together, unde conventus, 4 Inst. 261. For other opinions as to the derivation of the word, see Lex Man. 131; Ritson on Courts-leet; and Scriv. On Copyholds.] This court is expressly kept up by s. 40 of the Sheriffs Act, 1887, though for all but formal purposes it has long since fallen into desuetude, and there is still an annual Court-leet of the Manor and Liberty of Savoy which meets at St. Clement Danes Vestry Hall, the High Steward of the Manor presiding, a jury being empannelled one month aftr Easter and serving for a year from that date, the court being held 'for the purpose of preventing small offences in the nature of a common nuisance,' and still having 'power to impose fines for certain offenes, such the stopping up of ways': Solicitor's Journal,Vol. 49, p. 493.The Court-leet is a court of record appointed to be held once a...
High Steward of the Universities, Court of the Lord
High Steward of the Universities, Court of the Lord. By the charter of 7th June, 2 Hen. 4, confirmed by 13 Eliz. c. 29, conusance was granted to the University of Oxford of all indictments of treasons, insurrections, felonies, and mayhem, which should be found in any of the king's courts against a scholar or privileged person; they were to be tried before the Lord High Steward or his deputy, who is nominated by the Chancellor of the University, and approved of by the Lord High Chancellor of England. See CHANCELLORS OF THE UNIVERSITIES....
Marshalsea, Court of the
Marshalsea, Court of the, originally held before the steward and marshal of the royal house of administer justice between the sovereign's domestic servants, that they might not be drawn into other courts, and their service become lost. It held pleas of all trespasses committed within the verge of the Court (twelve miles round the sovereign's residence), where only one of the parties was in the royal service (in which case the inquest was taken by a jury of the country); and if all debts, contracts, and covenants where both of the contracting parties belonged to the royal household, and then the inquest was composed of men of the household only. But this Court being ambulatory, Charles I. erected a new Court of record, called the curia palatii, or Palace Court, to be held before the steward of the household and knight marshal, and the steward of the Court or his deputy, with jurisdiction to hold plea of all manner of personal actions whatsoever which should arise between any parties wit...
Reeve
Reeve [fr. gerefa, Sax.], a steward or bailiff. See DYKE-REEVE; FIELD-REEVE.A ministerial officer of high rank having local jurisdiction, the chief magistrate of a hundred, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1284.Reeve, means a ministerial officer of high rank having local jurisdiction; the Chief Magistrate of a hundred. The reeve executed process, kept the peace and enforced the law by holding court within the hundred. - 'All the freeholders, unless relieved by special exemption 'owed suit' at the hundred-moot and the reeve of the hundred presided over it. In Anglo-Saxon times, the reeve was an indepen-dent official, and the hundred-moot was not a preliminary stage to the shire-moot at all.....But after the conquest the hundred assembly, now called a court as all the others were, lost its importance very quickly. Pleas of land were taken from it, and its criminal jurisdiction limited to one of holding suspects in temporary detention. The reeve of the hundred became the deputy of the...
Serjeant
Serjeant [fr. serviens, Lat.], used in several senses:-A feudal tenure by knight service due only to king, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.(1) Serjeants-at-law, or of the coif (servientes ad legem), otherwise called serjeants counter, the highest degree in the Common Law, as doctors in the Civil Law; but, according to Spelman, a doctor of law is superior to a serjeant, for the very name of a doctor is magisterial, but that of a serjeant is only ministerial. Serjeants-at-law were made by the sovereign's writ, addressed unto such as are called, commanding them to take upon them that degree by a certain day, Fortescue, c. 50; 3 Cro. 1; Dyer, 72; 2 Inst. 213.The monopoly of exclusive audience enjoyed by the serjeants in the Court of Common Pleas, during term time, ineffectually attempted to be abolished by Royal Warrant in 1834 [see In the Matter of the Serjeants-at-law, (1840) 6 Bing NC 235], was abolished in 1846 by 9 & 10 Vict. c. 54.The judges of the Common Law Courts were formerly req...
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