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Disfranchise

To deprive of a franchise or chartered right to dispossess of the rights of a citizen or of a particular privilege as of

County Courts

actions iin which the title to any corporeal or incorporeal hereditaents, or to any toll, fair, market, or franchise shall come in question' (ss. 40, 48). Also all actions by creditors or legtees for administration of the

Fairs

the hurt of another fair or market; but this clause, if omitted, would be implied; for if the franchise occasion damage, either to the Crown or a subject, in any respect, it will be revoked; and a

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Frank chase

The liberty or franchise of having a chase free chase

Durham, County palatine of

4, c. 19, which is amended by 21 & 22 Vict. c. 45, and vested as a separate franchise and royalty in the Crown. As to the jurisdiction of the Durham Court of Chancery, see these Acts;

Disturbance

incorporeal hereditament in its exercise or enjoyment. There are five sorts of this injury, viz., disturbance of (1) franchise, (2) common, (3) ways, (4) tenure, and (5) patronage, 3 Steph. Com. As to compensation for disturbance under

Ely

the county of Cambridge. The Isle of Ely was never a county palatine, but it was a royal franchise, which, however, by 6 & 7 Wm. 4, c. 87, was taken away from the bishop, whose secular

Compound householder

Compound householder. The payment of rates was formerly one of the ingredients in the qualification for the parliamentary franchise; but modern statutes have enabled the owners of small houses to pay the rates for the occupiers and

Cognizance, or conusance

Crown to a town or place, to hold pleas of all contracts, etc., within the precinct of the franchise; and when a person is impleaded for such matters in the King's Court at Westminster, the mayor, etc.,

Bailiwick

liberty exempted from a sheriff, over which a bailiff is appointed by the lord of the liberty or franchise, with such powers within his precinct as an under-sheriff exercises under a sheriff.

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