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hometown
the town or city where a person was born or grew up or has his principal residence as he never went back to his hometown again
Benefit of clergy
laymen if they could read, applying it to civil as well as criminal causes. These exemptions at length grew so burthensome and scandalous, that the legislature from time to time interfered, by making particular offences 'felony, without
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Charities, or Public Trusts
favour, and to be deemed privileged testaments. Lord Thurlow was clearly of opinion that the doctrine of charities grew up from the civil law; and Lord Eldon, in assenting to that opinion, has judiciously remarked, that at
Court-leet
behaviour of each other. It was anciently the custom to summon all the king's subjects, as they respectively grew to years of discretion and strength, to come to the Court-leet, and there take the oath of allegiance
Kings peace
areas subjected the offender to punishment in the King's Court. Overtime, the area subject to the King's peace grew, which in turn increased the jurisdiction of the royal courts. Also written King's Peace, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th
Uses
It was to avoid the divesting of the legal estate in the feoffee to uses that the practice grew up of a feoffment or grant by A. to B. and his heirs to the use of B.
Waste lands
these grass-lands on hilly tracts were not waste lands. They were productive lands in the sense that grass grew naturally and so they were not desolate, abandoned or barren waste lands with no vegetation. The expression 'waste
Wasteland
any use, grasslands or hilly tracks were not wastelands. They were productive lands in the sense that grass grew naturally and so they were not desolate, abandoned or barren wastelands with no vegetation, State of Gujarat v.
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