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Third-night-awn-hinde
Third-night-awn-hinde [trium noctium hospes, Lat.]. By the laws of St. Edward the Confessor, if any man lay a third night in an inn, he was called a third-night-awn-hinde, and his host was answerable for him if...
Twanight geste
Twanight geste, a guest at an inn a second night. See THIRD-NIGHT-AWN-HINDE.
Westminster
Westminster, a city by express creation of Henry VIII. it was dissolved as a see and restored to the bishopric of London by Edward VI., and turned into a collegiate church, subject to a dean, by...
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Common law practitioner
Common law practitioner, practitioners in other common law jurisdictions who have for a period of not less than three years regularly exercised rights of audience in superior courts which administer law which is substantially equivalent to...
Cy-pres
Cy-pres (near to it). The principle of this doctrine of construction is, that where a testator hs two objects,one primary or general and the other secondary or particular, which are incompatible, the particular must be sacrificed...
Bencher
One of the senior and governing members of an Inn of Court
Common Law
Common Law [lex communis, Lat.]. 'The phrase 'common law' is used in two very different senses. It is cometimes contrasted with equity; it then denotes the law which, prior to the Judicature Act, was administered in...
Innyard
The yard adjoining an inn
Caravansary
A kind of inn in the East where caravans rest at night being a large rude unfurnished building surrounding a court
check in
To register as a guest at a hotel inn motel etc Converse of check out
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