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Arma libera (free arms). When a servant was set free, a sword and lance were usually given to him. Cowel; Blount....
Justitia debet esse LIBERA, quia nihil iniquius venali justitia; PLENA, quia justitia non debet claudicare; et CELER, quita dilatio qu'dam negatio
Justitia debet esse LIBERA, quia nihil iniquius venali justitia; PLENA, quia justitia non debet claudicare; et CELER, quita dilatio qu'dam negatio. 2 Inst. 56.-(Justice ought to be unbought, because nothing is more hateful than venal justice; full, for justice ought not to halt; and quick, for delay is a kind of denial.) compare the 29th chapter of Magna Charta, post, MAGNA CHARTA....
Justitia debet esse libera, quia nihil iniquius venali justitia; plena, quia justitia non debet claudicare; et celeris, quia dilatio est quaedam negatio
Justitia debet esse libera, quia nihil iniquius venali justitia; plena, quia justitia non debet claudicare; et celeris, quia dilatio est quaedam negatio [Lat.], Justice ought to be unbought, because nothing is more hateful than venal justice; full, for justice ought to be defective; and quick, for delay is a certain denial....
Libera
Libera, a livery or delivery of so much corn or grass to a customary tenant, who cut down or prepared the said grass or corn, and received some part or small portion of it as a reward or gratuity...
Libera batella
Libera batella, a free boat, a right of fishing....
Libera chasea habenda
Libera chasea habenda, a judicial writ granted to a person for a free chase belonging to his manor, after proof made by inquiry of a jury that the same of right belongs to him, Reg. Brev. 36....
Libera piscaria
Libera piscaria, a free fishery....
Libera wara
Libera wara, a free measure of ground....
Molitura libera
Molitura libera, a fee grinding or liberty of a mill without paying toll. Paroch. Antiq. 236....
Free-bench
Free-bench [sedes libera, Lat.], a widow's dower out of copyholds to which she was entitled by the custom of some manors. It is regarded as an excrescence growing out of the husband's interest, and is indeed a continuance of his estate.The term free-bench is equally applicable to the estate which, by the custom of some manors, a husband takes in his wife's copyhold lands after her death, and anciently it was indiscriminately applied to that and to the widow's dower, but now the estate of the husband is called his curtesy, while the term free-bench is confined to the widow.Since free-bench is only claimable by special custom, the estate which a widow is to take, both as to its quantity, quality, and duration, must be such as the custom prescribes. It is generally a third for her life, as at Common Law, but it is sometimes a fourth part only, and sometimes but a portion of the rent. In many manors the wife takes the whole for her life, in others she takes the inheritance.Frequently the c...
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