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Fleta, seu Commentarius Juris Anglicani, a treatise upon the whole law, as it stood at the time this author wrote, which serves as an appendix, and often as a commentary, to Bracton. The author was wholly an imitator.The book was written after the thirteenth year of Edward I., and not much later. The occasion of the title of it is given by the author himself, who says it was written during his confinement in the Fleet prison. From that circumstance it has been conjectured that he might be one of those lawyers who, for malpractice in their office as judges, were punished with imprisonment and pecuniary penalties, 2 Reeves, p. 279....
Exilium
Exilium, spoiling. The author of Fleta distinguishes between vastum, destructio, and exilium; for he tells us that vastum and destructio are almost the same, and are properly applied to houses, gardens, or woods; but exilium is where servants are enfranchised, and afterwards unlawfully turned out of their tenements, Fleta, 1. 1, c. xi....
Accapitare, Acapitare, Accaptare, or Acaptare
Accapitare, Acapitare, Accaptare, or Acaptare, the act of becoming vassal to a lord, or yielding homage to him, Encyc. Londin. Capitali domino acapitare, i.e., to pay relief, homage, or obedience to the chief lord on becoming his vassal, Fleta, lib. 2, c. 50, s. 6....
Ad feodi firmam
Ad feodi firmam. To fee farm, Fleta, lib. ii. c. 50, s. 30....
Advowee, or Avowee
Advowee, or Avowee, the person or patron who has a right to present to a benefice, Fleta, lib. v. c. 14....
Almner, or Almoner
Almner, or Almoner, an officer of the Royal household, whose business it is to distribute the royal arms. The lord almoner, who is usually now a bishop, had the disposition of the sovereign's dish of meat, after it came from the table, which he might give to whom he pleased. The Marquis of Exeter is hereditary Grand Almoner, Fleta, lib. ii. c. 22; Co. Litt. 94 a. A collector or treasurer of a benevolent institution....
Aloverium
Aloverium, a purse, Fleta, lib. ii. c. 82, p. 2....
Apprenticii ad legem
Apprenticii ad legem, Apprentices to the law-i.e., not servientes ad legem (serjeants-at-law)-barristers. See Fleta, lib. ii. c. 37....
Arma moluta
Arma moluta (arma emolita), sharp weapons that cut, in contradistinction to such as are blunt, which only break or bruise, Fleta, lib. 1, c. 31, para 6...
Assisa cadere
Assisa cadere, to be nonsuited, as when there is such a plain and legal insufficiency in an action that the plaintiff cannot successfully proceed any further in it, Fleta, lib. 4, c. 15; Bracton, lib. 2, c. vii....
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