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Falcatura

Falcatura, one day's mowing of grass, a customary service to the lord by his inferior tenants. Falcata, the fresh grass mowed and laid in swathes. Falcator, the tenant-mower, Ken Glos.

Operatio

Operatio, one day's work performed by a tenant for his lord.

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marriage in England as regards dower, heirship, and bigamy, is so doubtful that in 1843 the House of Lords and the Court appealed from were equally divided on the point in Reg. v. Millis, (1844) 10 Cl&F … P. 217. Previous to 1753 the validity of marriage was regulated by ecclesiastical law, not touched by any statutory nullity but modified by the Common law Courts, which sometimes interfered with the Ecclesiastical Courts, by prohibition, sometimes … either party. In case of license, the Act of 1823 requires fifteen days' residence, Tuckniss v. Alexander, 32 LJ Ch 794. It is only if

Sunday

Sunday [fr. sunnan daeg, Sax., the day of the sun], the first day of the week, the Lord's Day, termed in the Sunday Observance Act, 1677 (29 Car. 2, c. 7, infra), 'the Lord's Day, commonly

Tenure

or estate, and feo, wages, pay), over which the owner had but a conditional dominion, acknowledging a superior lord, upon whose pleasure the tenure precariously depended, and without whose consent nothing could be done. And this is … lord to the wars on horseback, armed as a knight, for forty days in every year, if called upon, and this attendance was his rent … Tenure, cannot be equated with 'terms and con-ditions of services' or payment of gravity or pension. Tenure when followed by words of office, means term of office, Punjab

Offices of the Supreme Court

humiliation, or thanksgiving, the day appointed to be kept as the King's birthday, and such days as the Lord Chancellor, with the concurrence of the Lord Chief Justice, the Master of the Rolls and the President of

Theatre

7 Vict. c. 68), such a place may not be had or kept without a licence from the Lord Chanberlain of the Household of the sovereign in the metropolis, and from the justices of the peace elsewhere, … by whom he shall be convicted, not exceeding twenty pounds for every day on which such house or place shall have been so kept open … Theatre, a place kept for the public performance of stage-plays (see STAGE-PLAY), which expression includes 'every tragedy, comedy, farce, opera, burletta, interlude, pantomine, or other entertain-ment of the

Reading-in

perpetual curacy will be divested unless be publicly read in the church of the benefice, on the first Lord's-day on which he officiates, the Thirty-nine Articles, with a declaration of his assent thereto, and to the Book

Quarantine, or Quarentaine

she choose to live without a husband, but she shall not, however, marry against the consent of the Lord; and nothing shall be taken for assignment of her dower, but she shall remain in her husband's capital … be taken for assignment of her dower, but she shall remain in her husband's capital mansion-house for forty days after his death, during which time her dower shall be assigned. These forty days are called the widow's

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