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Queen's proctor

Queen's proctor, means a solicitor that represents the crown in domestic-relations, probate, and admiralty cases. For example, in a suit for divorce or nullity of marriage, the Queen's proctor might intervene to prove collusion between the...

Regicide

Regicide, means the killing or murder of a king, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1286. Regicide, the murder of a sovereign; also the murderer. The killing or murder of a king, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th...

Reveland

Reveland, the land which in Domesday is said to have been thane-land, and afterwards converted into reveland. It seems to have been land which, having reverted to the king after the death of the thane, who...

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Rex non debet esse sub homine sed sub Deo et lege quia lex facit regem

Rex non debet esse sub homine sed sub Deo et lege quia lex facit regem (Bract. lib. i.5), the king ought not to be under any man, but under God and under the law, for the...

Rolls Office of the Chancery

Rolls Office of the Chancery, an office in Chancery Lane, London, which contained rolls and records of the High Court of Chancery. This house or office was anciently called Domus Conversorum, as being appointed by King...

Royal Title

Royal Title, '[George VI.] by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of all the British dominions beyond the seas, King, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India.' The...

Sheriff, Shire-reeve, or Shiriff

Sheriff, Shire-reeve, or Shiriff [fr. scire, Sax., fr. scyran, to divide, and gerefa, a guardian (vicecomes)], the chief officer of the Crown in every county. The judges, together with the other great officers and privy councillors,...

Sign-manual

Sign-manual. 1. The royal signature. Sometimes required by statute as evidence of the authority of the sovereign, e.g., by the Jud. Act, 1925, s. 4 (2), replacing Jud. Act, 1873, s. 31, interference to the transfer...

Super statuto

Super statuto (1 Edw. 3, c. 12), a writ that lay against the king's tenant holding in chief, who aliened the king's land without his licence.

Thelonio irrationabili habendo

Thelonio irrationabili habendo, a writ that formerly lay for him that had any part of the king's demesne in fee-farm, to recover reasonable toll of the king's tenants there, if his demesne had been accustomed to...

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Queen's proctor

Queen's proctor, means a solicitor that represents the crown in domestic-relations, probate, and admiralty cases. For example, in a suit for divorce or nullity of marriage, the Queen's proctor might intervene to prove collusion between the...

Regicide

Regicide, means the killing or murder of a king, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1286. Regicide, the murder of a sovereign; also the murderer. The killing or murder of a king, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th...

Reveland

Reveland, the land which in Domesday is said to have been thane-land, and afterwards converted into reveland. It seems to have been land which, having reverted to the king after the death of the thane, who...

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Rex non debet esse sub homine sed sub Deo et lege quia lex facit regem

Rex non debet esse sub homine sed sub Deo et lege quia lex facit regem (Bract. lib. i.5), the king ought not to be under any man, but under God and under the law, for the...

Rolls Office of the Chancery

Rolls Office of the Chancery, an office in Chancery Lane, London, which contained rolls and records of the High Court of Chancery. This house or office was anciently called Domus Conversorum, as being appointed by King...

Royal Title

Royal Title, '[George VI.] by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of all the British dominions beyond the seas, King, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India.' The...

Sheriff, Shire-reeve, or Shiriff

Sheriff, Shire-reeve, or Shiriff [fr. scire, Sax., fr. scyran, to divide, and gerefa, a guardian (vicecomes)], the chief officer of the Crown in every county. The judges, together with the other great officers and privy councillors,...

Sign-manual

Sign-manual. 1. The royal signature. Sometimes required by statute as evidence of the authority of the sovereign, e.g., by the Jud. Act, 1925, s. 4 (2), replacing Jud. Act, 1873, s. 31, interference to the transfer...

Super statuto

Super statuto (1 Edw. 3, c. 12), a writ that lay against the king's tenant holding in chief, who aliened the king's land without his licence.

Thelonio irrationabili habendo

Thelonio irrationabili habendo, a writ that formerly lay for him that had any part of the king's demesne in fee-farm, to recover reasonable toll of the king's tenants there, if his demesne had been accustomed to...

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