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The iterative sound of beating a drum or of a galloping horse...
Repetition
The act of repeating a doing or saying again iteration...
Eire, or eyre
Eire, or eyre [fr. iter, Lat.], the Court of justices itinerant, justiciarii itinerantes, justices in eyre. They were anciently sent with a general commission into divers counties to hear such causes as are termed Pleas of the Crown; and this was done for the east of the people, who must else have been brought to the King's Bench, if the cause were too high for the County Court: it is said they were sent but once in seven years. the eyre of the forest is the justice-seat, which, by an ancient custom, was held every three years by the justices of the forest journeying up and down for that purpose, Bract. 1 3, c. xi.A journey, route, circuit, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 534...
Eyre, justices in
Eyre, justices in [fr. eyre, Fr.; iter, Lat.], the Court of justices itinerant, whom Bracton in many places calls justiciarios itinerantes; called in modern times the judges of assize, who have travelled on their several circuits since their first appointment by the statute of nisi prius, 13 Edw. 1, st. 1, c. 30. The eyre of the forest is nothing but the justice-seat, which is, or should by ancient custom be, held every three years by the justices of the forest, journeying up and down for such purpose....
Tautology
Tautology, describing the same thing twice in one sentence in equivalent terms; a fault in rhetoric. It differs from repetition or iteration, which is repeating the same sentence in the same or equivalent terms: the latter is sometimes either excusable or necessary in an argument or address; the former (tautology) never....
Way
Way [fr. w'g, Sax.; weigh, Dut.; vig or wig, M. Goth.], road made for passengers.1. A passage or pat 2. A right to travel over another's property, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1587.There are three kinds of ways:-1st, a footway (iter); 2nd, a footway and horseway (actus, vulgarly called packe and prime way; 3rd, via or aditus, which contains the other two, and also a cartway, etc.; and this is two-fold, viz., regia via, the king's highway for all men, and communis strata, belonging to a city or town or between neighbours and neighbours. This is called in our books chimin, Co. Litt. 56 a.All ways are divided into highways and private ways. A right of way strictly means a private way, i.e. a privilege which an individual or a particular description of persons may have of going over another's ground. Such a right is an incorporeal hereditament.A highway is a public passage for the sovereign and all his subjects, and it is commonly called the king's public highway; and the turnpike ...
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