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Graveyard

no direct evidence of dedication to the public, it may be presumed to be a public graveyard by immemorial user i.e. where corpses of the members of the Mahomedan community have been buried in a particular graveyard

Custom

(1952) SCR 825. A custom is a particular rule which has obtained either actually or presumptively from time immemorial in a particular locality and obtained the force of law in the locality, although contrary to, or not

Court-baron

the like, to bind such tenants as assented thereto, unless they were made by prescription or under an immemorial custom. These laws could never bind strangers. The penalty for the breach of a bye-law was in the

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County palatine

Lat., a court]. There were three of these counties--Chester, Durham, and Lancaster. The two former were such by immemorial custom; the last was created by Edward III. The Bishop of Durham and the Duke of Lancaster had

Copyholders

Copyholders, are in truth no other but villains who, by a long series of immemorial encroachments on the lord, have at last established a customary right to those estates which before were held

Common Law

case with Acts of Parliament; but that it receives its binding powers, as a law, from long and immemorial usage, and universal reception throughout the realm. The authenticity of these customs, rules, and maxims rests entirely upon

Baron

Salic Law it signifies free-born. The present barons are-(1) By prescription; for that they and their ancestors have immemorially sat in the Upper House.(2) Barons by patent, having obtained a patent of this dignity to them and

Prescriptive

Consisting in or acquired by immemorial or long continued use and enjoyment as a prescriptive right of title pleading the continuance and authority of

Advowson

is a right of patronage annexed to the possession of some corporeal hereditament. Thus, where an advowson has immemorially passed together with a manor or reputed manor by a simple grant of such manor, without particularly referring

Chambers of the King

over the in closed parts of the sea long the coasts of the island of Great Britain has immemorially extended to those bays called the King's chambers: that is, portions of the sea cut off by lines

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