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Lex deraisnia

it to be against reason or probability; this was used among the old Romans as well as the Normans, Cowel.

Oyez

given by the public criers both in England and Scotland. It is pronounced oh ! yes ! See NORMAN FRENCH. Means the utterance oyez, oyez. Oyez is usually used in court by the public crier to call

Houses are read, and the king's or queen's answer is declared by the Clerk of the Parliaments in Norman-French. To a bill of supply, the assent is given in the following words: 'Le roy (or, la reyne)

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Primogeniture

Primogeniture and Succession.' In England the customs of gavelkind and Borough-English were almost the only exceptions to this Norman rule of inheritance. The right, which was a corner-stone of the social structure in England, has been swept

Que estate

estate he has, this is called a prescription in a que estate. The phrase is taken from the Norman French: that he, and all those whose estate he has, have from time immemorial enjoyed the right-tous ceus

Deed

after 1925 must be signed. [(English) Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 73] (b) Sealing, which is a Norman usage, and makes the assurance a specialty. It is, however, but a simple formality, but see CORPORATION, and

Seisin

See Leach v. Jay, (1878) 9 Ch D 42; Copestake v. Hoper, (1908) 2 Ch 10; Thackray v. Norman, 1914 WN 303; and consult Williams onSeisin; Co. Litt. 266 b and 330 b (notes. See also addenda,

Subject to suitable agreement being arranged between your solicitor and mine

a form approved by the solicitors on both sides is a condition of any concluded bargain, Lockett v. Norman Wright, 1925 Ch 56.

Terra normanorum

Terra normanorum, land held by a Norman, Paroch. Antiq. 197.

Testa de nevil

of the king, and in whose hands they were; (5) of escheats, as well of the lands of Normans as others, in whose hands the same were, and by what services holden; (6) of the amount of

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