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Folc-right, or folk-right

Folc-right, or folk-right, the jus commune, or common Law, mentioned in the laws of King Edward the Elder, declaring the same equal right, law, or justice to be due to persons of all degrees.

Hierarchy

Hierarchy [fr. Iepos, Gk., sacred, and apxn, government], the body or persons who have the direction in religious concerns and things sacred. Of whatever denominations may be the persons who take the lead in conducting religious...

Husband and wife

Husband and wife. the Common Law treated them, for most purposes, as one person, giving, with exceptions comparatively unimportant, the whole of a woman's property to her husband for his absolute use, and a husband could...

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Huzoor

Huzoor, nothing much turns on the use of the word 'Huzoor' which is only a term of courtesy used to address either elders or high dignitaries, State of Bihar v. Radha Krishna Singh, AIR 1983 SC...

Presbyter

Presbyter, a priest, elder, or honourable person. 'New Presbyter is but old Priest writ large.'--Milton.

Lineal warranty

Lineal warranty, where the heir derived, or might by possibility have derived, his title to the land warranted, either from or through the ancestor who made the warranty; as where a father or an elder son...

Mulier puisne

Mulier puisne. When a man has a bastard son, and afterwards marries the mother, and by her has also a legitimate son, the elder son is bastard eigne and the younger son is mulier puisne. See...

Parage or Paragium

Parage or Paragium, an equality of blood or dignity; but more especially of land, in the partition of an inheritance between coheirs; more properly, however, an equality of condition among nobles, or persons holding by a...

Presentation

Presentation, the offering by the patron of a benefice to the ordinary of a person to be instituted to the benefice. It must be in writing (29 Car. 2, c. 3), and is in the nature...

Secta facienda per illam qu' habt eniciam partem

Secta facienda per illam qu' habt eniciam partem, a writ to compel the heir, who has the elder's part of the co-heirs, to perform suit and services for all the coparcenrs.--e.g. Brev. 177.

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