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Eyre

A journey in circuit of certain judges called justices in eyre or in itinere

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Eire, or eyre

Eire, or eyre [fr. iter, Lat.], the Court of justices itinerant, justiciarii itinerantes, justices in eyre. They were anciently sent with

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Eyre, justices in

Eyre, justices in [fr. eyre, Fr.; iter, Lat.], the Court of justices itinerant, whom Bracton in many places calls

Justice in eyre

Justice in eyre, means one of the itinerant judges who, in medieval times, investigated allegations of wrongdoing, tried cases, and levied

Martial law

(10 & 11 Geo. 5, c. 31), in Ireland. It was proclaimed in Jamaica without authority by Governor Eyre in 1865, but followed by a Jamaica Actof Indemnity which was held good in Phillips v. Eyre, (1870)

Nonintromittendo, quando breve pr'cipe in capite subdole impetratur

quando breve pr'cipe in capite subdole impetratur, a writ addressed to the justices of the bench, or in eyre, commanding them not to give one who, under colour of entitling the king of land, etc., as holding

Transcripto pedis finis levati mittendo in cancellariam

finis levati mittendo in cancellariam, a writ which certified the foot of a fine levied before justices in eyre, etc., into the Chancery, Rev. Brev. 169, 4th Edn.

Proconsules

Proconsules, justices in eyre.

Primogeniture

property of their parents; and in continental coun-tries exists in a modified form only, if at all. See Eyre Lloyd's 'Rights of Primogeniture and Succession.' In England the customs of gavelkind and Borough-English were almost the only

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