Nobility - Law Dictionary Search Results
Civil Law
the administration of the law, great encouragement was given to the adoption of the Civil Law, till the nobility and laity became so jealous of its prosperity, and alarmed t its progress, that a long and fierce
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Of or pertaining to the nobility or aristocracy
Ragmans roll
The rolls of deeds on parchment in which the Scottish nobility and gentry subscribed allegiance to Edward I of England A D 1296
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class or a member of the class of military retainers of the daimios constituting the gentry or lesser nobility They possessed power of life and death over the commoners and wore two swords as their distinguishing mark
Baron
Baron [fr. beorn, Sax., noble], the fifth and lowest degree of nobility, next to a viscount, and above that of a knight or baronet. In the Salic Law it signifies
Honorary feuds
Honorary feuds, titles of nobility, descendible to the eldest son, in exclusion of all the rest.
Clerk
man of letters, whence the term is appropriated to churchmen who were called clerks and now clergymen, the nobility and gentry being bred to the exercise of arms, and none left to cultivate the sciences but ecclesiastics.
False news, spreading
False news, spreading, to make discord between the sovereign and nobility, or concerning any great man of the realm, was a misdemeanour, punish-able at Common Law by fine and
Nobley
The body of nobles the nobility
Honour
seigniory of several manors held under one baron or lord paramount; also those dignities or privileges, degrees of nobility, knighthood, and other titles which flow from the Crown, the fountain of honour, and see the Honours (Prevention
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Nobility - Law Dictionary Search Results
Civil Law
the administration of the law, great encouragement was given to the adoption of the Civil Law, till the nobility and laity became so jealous of its prosperity, and alarmed t its progress, that a long and fierce
Optimate
Of or pertaining to the nobility or aristocracy
Ragmans roll
The rolls of deeds on parchment in which the Scottish nobility and gentry subscribed allegiance to Edward I of England A D 1296
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VerbarSamurai
class or a member of the class of military retainers of the daimios constituting the gentry or lesser nobility They possessed power of life and death over the commoners and wore two swords as their distinguishing mark
Baron
Baron [fr. beorn, Sax., noble], the fifth and lowest degree of nobility, next to a viscount, and above that of a knight or baronet. In the Salic Law it signifies
Honorary feuds
Honorary feuds, titles of nobility, descendible to the eldest son, in exclusion of all the rest.
Clerk
man of letters, whence the term is appropriated to churchmen who were called clerks and now clergymen, the nobility and gentry being bred to the exercise of arms, and none left to cultivate the sciences but ecclesiastics.
False news, spreading
False news, spreading, to make discord between the sovereign and nobility, or concerning any great man of the realm, was a misdemeanour, punish-able at Common Law by fine and
Nobley
The body of nobles the nobility
Honour
seigniory of several manors held under one baron or lord paramount; also those dignities or privileges, degrees of nobility, knighthood, and other titles which flow from the Crown, the fountain of honour, and see the Honours (Prevention
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