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Danegelt, Danegeld, or Danegold

Danegelt, Danegeld, or Danegold [fr. danegeldum, dane and gelt, tribute], a tribute of 1s., and after-wards of 2s., upon every hide of land through the realm, levied by the Anglo-Saxons for maintaining forces sufficient to clear the British seas of Danish pirates, who greatly annoyed our coasts. It continued a tax until the time of Stephen, and was one of the rights of the Crown, Anc. Insts. Eng....

Demise

Demise, a grant; it is applied to an estate either in fee or for term of life or years, but most commonly to the latter; it is used in writs for any estate, 2 Inst. 483.The operative word 'demise' in a lease implies a covenant on the part of the lessor for the lessee's quiet enjoyment during the term, Hart v. Windsor, (1843) 12 M&W 85; Markham v. Paget, (1908) 1 Ch 697; but an express covenant for quiet enjoyment excludes any implied one, Line v. Stephenson, (1838) 4 Bing NC 678.Of the Crown. The death of the sovereign, demissio regis vel coron', an expression which signifies merely a transfer of property; for when we say the demise of the Crown, we mean only that in consequence of the disunion of the sovereign's natural body from his body politic, the kingdom is transferred or demised to his successor, and so the royal dignity remains perpetual, Plowd. 177. See (English) Succession to the Crown Act, 1707 (6 Anne, c. 41) (c. 7 as commonly printed), s. 8, as to continuance for six month...

Misericordia

Misericordia, an arbitrary amerciament or punishment imposed on any person for an offence. it is thus called, according to Fitzherbert, because it ought to be but small and less than that required by Magna Charta, Anc. Inst. Eng.Also, a discharge of all manner of amerciaments, which a person might incur in the forest. See CAPLAS PR FINE. See 1 Chit. Arch. Prac., 12th Edn. 527....

Parliament, the Imperial

Parliament, the Imperial. Formerly the Legislature of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, now, by the Royal and Parliamentary Titles Act, 1927 (17 Geo. 5, c. 4), s. 2, styled the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, (Southern Ireland or the Irish Free State having gotten the status of a 'Dominion,' see IRELAND), consisting of the King, and the three estates of the Realm, i.e., the lords spiritual and temporal (called the House of Lords or Upper House of Parliament), and the persons elected by the people (called the House of Commons, or Lower, or Nether House of Parlia-ment). Under the Government of Ireland Act, 1920 (10 & 11 Geo. 5, c. 67), s. 19 (a), and Sch. 5, Part II., as amended by 13 Geo. 5, sess. 2, c. 2, s. 1, 13 members are returned to the House of Commons in the Imperial Parliament by Northern Ireland, and the Irish Free State is excluded. Until the reign of Henry the Fourth both Houses sat together. See 4 Inst. P. 5.The word is...

Redubbers

Redubbers, persons who bought stolen cloth and turned it into some other colour or fashion, that it might not be known again, 3 Inst. 134....

Trailbaston, Court of

Trailbaston, Court of, erected by Edward I. by the statute of Ragman. This was a commission of oyer and terminer of an unusual kind, and was issued in the fulness of zeal for the correction of public disorders. The rigour, however, with which this was executed creating some discontent, it was thought expedient, in course of time, to discontinue it, 2 Reeves, p. 277; 4 Inst. 186....

Overseers of the poor

Overseers of the poor (now abolished by (English) Rating and Valuation Act, 1925 (c. 90), ss. 1, 64), formerly public officers created by the (English) Poor Relief Act, 1601 (43 Eliz. c. 2), to provide for the poor of every parish. There were two or more according to the extent of the parish. Church-wardens were, by (English) Poor Law Amendment Act, 1866 (c. 113), s. 12 (repealed) (except in rural parishes, in which case their jurisdiction ceased by virtue of the (English) Local Government Act, 1894), overseers of the poor, and they joined with the overseers in making poor rates; but the churchwardens, having distinct business of their own, usually left the care of the poor to the overseers, though anciently they were the sole overseers of the poor, Wood's Inst. 98. The overseers originally not only levied the poor rate, but also expended it. Their duties regarding rating were transferred to the rating authority by (English) Overseers Order, 1927, No. 55.Assistant overseers could be ap...

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