Habiliment - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: habilimentBiliment
A womans ornament habiliment...
Dressing
Dress raiment especially ornamental habiliment or attire...
Equipage
Furniture or outfit whether useful or ornamental especially the furniture and supplies of a vessel fitting her for a voyage or for warlike purposes or the furniture and necessaries of an army a body of troops or a single soldier including whatever is necessary for efficient service equipments accouterments habiliments attire...
Habiliment
A garment an article of clothing...
Habilimented
Clothed...
Heriot
Heriot [supposed by some to be derived fr. here, Sax., an army, and geat, provision, Willis, 194. Coke derives it fr. here, lord, and geat, beste, i.e., the lord's beste, Co. Litt. 185 b], the right of the lord of a manor to the best beast of the deceased tenant of a manor, which beast may be seized by the lord, although it has never been within the manor, Western v. Bailey, (1897) 1 QB 86; but if a customary freehold tenement is mortgaged, and the mort-gagor being in possession dies, the heriot is not due because he had no legal seisin at the time of his death, Copestake v. Hoper, (1908) 2 Ch 10. Originally a tribute to the lord of the manor of the horse or habiliments of the deceased tenant, in order that the militi' apparatus might continue to be used for national defence by each succeeding tenant.A customary tribute of goods and chattels, payable to lord of the fee on tenant's death, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 732.The extinction of heriots was first attempted by the (Engl...
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