Euphony - Law Dictionary Search Results
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Pertaining to or exhibiting euphony agreeable in sound pleasing to the ear euphonious as a euphonic expression euphonical orthography...
Euphonious
Pleasing or sweet in sound euphonic smooth sounding...
Euphonism
An agreeable combination of sounds euphony...
Euphonous
Euphonious...
Euphony
A pleasing or sweet sound an easy smooth enunciation of sounds a pronunciation of letters and syllables which is pleasing to the ear...
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...
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