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Long stop
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Cheval de frise
piece of timber or an iron barrel traversed with iron pointed spikes or spears five or six feet long used to defend a passage stop a breach or impede the advance of cavalry etc
Stoppage in transit
right of stopping them in transitu; that is to say, he may resume possession of the goods as long as they are in course of transit, and may retain them until payment or tender of the price.'-Sale … Stoppage in transit. 'When the buyer of goods becomes insolvent, the unpaid seller who has parted with the possession
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Court-leet
kept up by s. 40 of the Sheriffs Act, 1887, though for all but formal purposes it has long since fallen into desuetude, and there is still an annual Court-leet of the Manor and Liberty of Savoy … the nature of a common nuisance,' and still having 'power to impose fines for certain offenes, such the stopping up of ways': Solicitor's Journal,Vol. 49, p. 493. The Court-leet is a court of record appointed to be
Civil Law
empire, the Saxon, Danish, and Norman laws superseded a great portion of the Roman Law; but not very long afterwards it began again to manifest its influence, and entered largely into the composition of the Common Law. … the sixth king, enacted many wise and good laws to maintain the cause of the poor, and to stop the oppressions of the rich. He also revived many of the obsolete laws of Romulus and Numa Pompilius.
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