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Home Dictionary Name: land reeveLand-reeve
Land-reeve, a person whose business is to overlook certain parts of a farm or estate; to attend not only to the woods and hedge-timber, but also to the state of the fences, gates, buildings, private roads, drift-ways, and water-courses; and likewise to the stocking of commons, and encroachment of every kind, as well as to prevent or detect waste, and spoil in general, whether by the tenants or others; and to report the same to the manager or land-steward.Means a person charged with (1) overseeing certain parts of a farm or estate (2) attending to the timber, fences, gates, buildings, private roads, and water-courses, (3) stocking the commons, (4) watering for encroachments of all kinds, (5) preventing and detecting waste and spoliation by tenants and others, and (6) reporting on findings to the manger or land steward, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 884....
Telligraphum
Telligraphum [fr. tellus, Lat., land; and, Gk., to write], an Anglo-Saxon charter of land, 1 Reeves' Hist. Eng. Law, c. 1, p. 10....
Forisfamiliation
Forisfamiliation. 'A son was said to be forisfamilated '(says Reeves, i. 110), 'if his father assigned him part of his land and gave him seisin thereof . . . and the son expressed himself satisfied with such portion.'...
Gavelet
Gavelet [fr. gaveletum, Lat.], an ancient and special kind of cessavit used in Kent and London for the recovery of rent. Obsolete. The statute of Gavelet is 10 Edw. 2, 2 Reeves, c. xii., p. 298.A writ used in kent and London to recover rent from land held in gavelkind, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 690....
Quod clerici non eligantur inofficio ballivi, etc
Quod clerici non eligantur inofficio ballivi, etc., a writ which lay for a clerk, who, by reason of some land he had, was made, or was about to be made, bailiff, beadle, reeve, or some such officer, to obtain exemption from serving the office, Reg. Brev. 187....
Re-disseisin
Re-disseisin, a disseisin made by him who once before was bound and adjudged to have disseised the same person of his lands or tenements, Fitz. N.B. 188; 1 Reeves, 263.Means depriving by one who has already dis-possessed the same person of the same estate, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1283....
Reeve
Reeve [fr. gerefa, Sax.], a steward or bailiff. See DYKE-REEVE; FIELD-REEVE.A ministerial officer of high rank having local jurisdiction, the chief magistrate of a hundred, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1284.Reeve, means a ministerial officer of high rank having local jurisdiction; the Chief Magistrate of a hundred. The reeve executed process, kept the peace and enforced the law by holding court within the hundred. - 'All the freeholders, unless relieved by special exemption 'owed suit' at the hundred-moot and the reeve of the hundred presided over it. In Anglo-Saxon times, the reeve was an indepen-dent official, and the hundred-moot was not a preliminary stage to the shire-moot at all.....But after the conquest the hundred assembly, now called a court as all the others were, lost its importance very quickly. Pleas of land were taken from it, and its criminal jurisdiction limited to one of holding suspects in temporary detention. The reeve of the hundred became the deputy of 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, meet in the Exchequer on the morrow (November 12th) of St. Martin, yearly; and then and there the judges propose three persons from each county, to be reported, if approved of, to the King, who afterwards appoints one of them to be sheriff, and such appointment generally takes place about the end of the following Hilary Term. If a sheriff die in office, the appointment of another is the mere act of the Crown.The Sheriffs Act, 1887, repeals and, so far as they were not obsolete, re-enacts the very numerous enactments as to sheriffs from 3 Edw. 1, c. 9, to s. 16 of the (English) Judicature Act, 1881, inclusive. By s. 3 of this Act a sheriff is annually appointed, having (s. 4) sufficient land within the county to answer the King and his people; by s. 23 every ...
Mortmain
Mortmain [fr. mort, Fr., dead, and main hand], such a state of possession of land as makes it inalienable; whence it is said to be in dead hand--in a hand that cannot shift away the property. It takes place upon alienation to any corporation, sole or aggregate, ecclesiastical or temporal, 2 Bl. Com. 268.By several old statutes, alienation of lands and tenements in mortmain, i.e., to religious and other corporations, which were supposed to hold them in a dead or unserviceable hand, were prohibited under pain of forfeiture to the lord, the fruits of whose feudal seigniory (the great hinge of government in those days) were thus impaired. But either with or without the consent of the immediate lords (for this is doubtful), this forfeiture might be dispensed with by a licence in mortmain from the Crown, which licence was made sufficient without any such consent by 7 & 8 Wm. 3, c. 37, repealed and reenacted by the consolidating mortmain and (English) Charitable Uses Act, 1888 (51 & 52 Vict. ...
Frauds, Statute of
Frauds, Statute of, 29 Car. 2, c. 3 (A.D. 1676). This famous statute is said to have been famed by Sir Matthew Hale, Lord Keeper Guilford, and Sir Leoline Jenkins, an eminent civilian. Lord Nottingham used to say of it, that 'every line was worth a subsidy,' and it has been said that at all events the explanation of every line has cost a subsidy, no statute having been the subject of so much litigation. The statute, though it does not apply or have any Act corresponding to it in Scotland, was practically copied by the Irish Parliament in 7 Wm. 3, c. 12, applies generally to the British colonies, and, remarks Mr. Chancellor Kent (2 Com. 494, n. (d), 'carries its influence through the whole body of American juris-prudence, and is in many respects the most comprehensive, salutary, and important legislative regulation on record affecting the security of private rights.'The main object of the statute was to take away the facilities for fraud and the temptation to perjury which arose in verb...
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