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enfranchisement 1 : the act of enfranchising 2 : the state of being enfranchised ...
enfranchise
enfranchise -chised -chis·ing : to grant franchise to ;esp : to admit to the privileges of a citizen and esp. to voting rights [the Twenty-sixth Amendment enfranchised all citizens over 18 years of age] compare emancipate ...
Enfranchiser
One who enfranchises...
Enfranchisement
Enfranchisement, making free; used (1) of the newly conferring, as by the Reform Act, 1832, a right of constituency to return a member to Parliament, or of a person to vote at a Parliamentary election; and (2) of the turning copyholds into freeholds, as to which see COPYHOLD.The granting of voting rights or other right of citizenship to class or person, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 549....
Copyhold
Copyhold. Tenure in copyhold has been abolished under the (English) L.P. Acts, 1922 and 1925, and the Amending Acts of 1924 and 1926, but the greater part of the former title on this subject has been retained verbatim in view of the importance of the subject in examining titles. In the previous edition of this work, copyhold was described as a base tenure founded upon immemorial custom and usage; its origin is undiscoverable, but it is said to be the ancient villeinage modified and changed by the commutation of base services into specified rents, either in money or money's worth.A copyhold estate is a parcel of the demesnes of a manor held at the lord's will, and according to the custom of such manor. The tenant may have the same quantities of interest in this tenure as he may enjoy in freeholds, as an estate in fee-simple or (by particular custom) fee-tail, or for life, and he may have only a chattel interest of an estate for years in it. By the custom of some manors, the estate devol...
Emancipation
Emancipation. A solemn act by which a pater-familias divests himself of his power over his filius-familias, so that the filus-familias may become sui juris. There are three forms of emancipatio: (1) The old emancipation, which was by several man-cipationes, followed by several enfranchisements. The man-icipatio, or solemn sale, destroyed the patria potestas and put the filius familias in mancipio, which was a kind of slavery. The enfranchisement by the purchaser made the filius-familias sui juris. As the enfranchiser acquired all rights of patronage, the father, on occasion of the last mancipatio, added the trust-clause (fiducia contracta), i.e., an express condition that the purchaser should remancipate the filius-familias to the pater-familias, so that having ceased to be a pater-familias, and being only an ordinary purchaser, he might enfranchise his child, and so acquire the rights of patronage.(2) The Anastasian emancipation, introduced by Anastasius. It consisted in obtaining an ...
Common
Common, a profit which a man has in the land of another; it derives its name from the community of interest which thence arises between the claimant and the owner of the soil, or between the claimant and other commoners entitled to the same right; all which parties are entitled to bring actions for injuries done to their respective interests, and that both as against strangers and against each other. It is called an incorporeal right, which lies in grant, as if originally commencing in some agreement between lords and tenants, for some valuable consideration which, by lapse of time, being formed into a prescription, continues, although there be no deed or instrument in writing which proves the original contract or agreement. It differs from a rent, principally in freedom of enjoyment on the one hand, and in freedom from obligation on the other; which the law expresses by the quaint antithesis that it lies not in render but in prender. It is also incidentally distinguished by its fruits...
Extinguishment
Extinguishment, the annihilation of a collateral interest, or the supersedure of one interest by another and greater interest in that out of which it is derived. It is of various natures as applied to various rights.The cessation or cancellation of some right on interest, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 604.(1) Extinguishment of common. It he who is entitled to common appurtenant purchase any part of the land which is subject to his right of common, that right is extinguished for the whole; and so, if he release his right over any part of the land. But it has been justly doubted whether in any case, and especially if all persons who have common appurtenant in the same land concur in discharg-ing some part of it, this legal trap should be allowed to operate, Burton's Comp., 8th Edn. 352. If one of the tenants of a manor purchase any part of the land over which he has a right of common appendant, his right over the rest will continue. So, on the alienation of any part of land to whi...
Fees
Fees, perquisites allowed to officers in the administration of justice, as a recompense for their labour and trouble, ascertained either by Acts of Parlia-ment, by rule or order of Court, or by ancient usage; in modern times frequently commuted for a salary, e.g., by the (English) Justices Clerks Act, 1877.Although, however, the officers of a court may be paid by salary instead of by fees, the obligation of suitors to pay fees usually remains, these fees being paid into the fund out of which the salaries of the officers are defrayed. In the Supreme Court they are collected by means of stamps under s. 26 of the (English) Judicature Act, 1875, and a Treasury Order of July, 1884, a judicial Order of the same year fixing the amount, and see Supreme Court Fees Rules, 1930.The mode of collecting fees in a public office is under the (English) Public Office Fees Act, 1879 (42 & 43 Vict. c. 58) (repealing and replacing the (English) Public Office Fees Act, 1866), by stamps or money, as the Trea...
Fines in copyholds
Fines in copyholds. A fine which is preserved by 12 Car. 2, c. 24, s. 6, is a sum of money payable by custom to the lord. There are three classes of fines:- (1) those due on the change of the lord; (2) those on the change of the tenant; and (3) those for a licence to the tenant to do certain acts.When the fine is due on the change of the lord, such change must be by the act of God, and not in consequence of any act of the party. It can therefore be only claimed on the death of the lord.When it is due on the change of the tenant, it matters not whether that change is effected by the act of God, or by the tenant's own act. Whenever the tenancy is changed, a fine is payable.Those fines which are due to licenses by the lord, to empower the tenant to do certain acts, as to demise, etc., are rare. There must be a special custom to support such fine, for, by general custom, fines are due only on admissions.The admission fine is prima facie uncertain and arbitrary, or rather arbitrable, unless...
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