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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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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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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

Keep your definitions linked to case research

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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