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Suit
Suit, a following. It is used in divers senses:- (1) An action in the Supreme Court, or a proceeding by petition in the Divorce branch of
Secta unica tantum facienda pro pluribus h'reitatibus
than one, that he should be allowed to do one suit only in respect of the land of divers heirs descended to him.
Recto de dote unde nihil habet
habet, a writ of right of dower whereof she had nothing, which lay where her deceased husband, having divers lands or tenements, had assured no dower to his wife, and she thereby was driven to sue for
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Rationabilibus divisis
Rationabilibus divisis, an abolished writ, which lay where two lords, in divers towns, had seigniories adjoining, for him who found his waste by little and little to have been encroached
Provincial Constitutions
Provincial Constitutions, the decrees of provincial synods held under divers archbishops of Canterbury, from Stephen Langton, in the reign of Henry III., to Henry Chichele, in the reign
Ipso facto
Ipso facto (by the very act itself). A censure of excommunication in the Ecclesiastical Court, immediately incurred for divers offences, after lawful trial.
Habere facias visum
Habere facias visum (that you cause to have view), a writ that lay in divers cases in real actions, as informed on, etc., where a view was required to be taken of the
Summoneas
Summoneas, [Law Lat. you are to summon'] a writ-judicial of great diversity, according to the divers cases wherein it was used. Obsolete.
Emblers de gentz
de gentz [Fr.], a stealing from the people. The phrase occurs in our old rolls of Parliament, 'Whereas divers murders, emblers de gentz, and robberies are committed,' etc., Rot. Parl., 21 Edw. 3, n. 62.
Dole-meadow
Dole-meadow, one wherein the shares of divers persons are marked by doles or landmarks.
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