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Obsolete, invalid by virtue of discontinuance, said of a law or practice which has ceased to be enforced or be in use by reason of change of manners and circumstances, as 'wager or battel' (see BATTEL, WAGER OF), the punishment of the stocks (see STOCKS), the provision of the Gaming Act of Henry VIII. (33 Hen. 8, c. 9) (Revised Statutes, 2nd Edn., vol. i. p. 378, published in 1888; Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Games and Gaming'), by which labourers and others are forbidden to play cards or other specified games 'out of Christmas,' but allowed to play them in Christmas in their masters' houses and in their masters' presence; and that of 1285 in the Stat. Westm. Sec., 13 Edw. 1, c. 34, by which elopement with a nun from her convent, although the nun consent, is punishable by three years' imprisonment and fine. For further instances, see the (English) Statute Law Revision Act, 1908 (8 Edw. 7, c. 49); and see also STATUTE LAW REVISION. But however absurd and, in common language, obsolete an En...
Obsolete
No longer in use gone into disuse disused neglected as an obsolete word an obsolete statute applied chiefly to words writings or observances...
Obsoletely
In an obsolete manner...
Obsoleteness
The state of being obsolete or no longer used a state of desuetude...
Hundred Court
Hundred Court, a larger Court-baron, being held for all the inhabitants of a particular hundred instead of a manor. The free suitors were here also the judges, and the steward the registrar, as in the case of court-baron. It was not a Court of record; it resembled a court-baron in all points except that in point of territory it was of a greater jurisdiction. It was denominated h'reda in the in the Gothic constitution. Causes were removed by the same writ as from a Court-baron, and its proceedings might be reviewed by writ of false judgment. The court is become obsolete, but the County Courts Act, 1888, s. 6, re-enacting s. 14 of the County Courts Act, 1846, still treated it as existing, by providing for the surrender of the right of hold it. The Salford Hundred Court of Record still exists under special statutory provision. See County Courts (Amendment) Act, 1934 (24 & 35 Geo. 5, c. 17), s. 34, which repealed s. 6 as obsolete....
Nonmerchandizanda victualia
Nonmerchandizanda victualia, an ancient writ addressed to justices of assize, to inquire whether the magistrates of a town sold victuals in gross or by retail during the time of their being in office, which was contrary to an obsolete statute; and to punish them if they did, Reg. Brev. 184. Obsolete....
boot
boot [obsolete or dialect boot compensation, from Old English bōt advantage, compensation] : additional money or property received to make up the difference in an exchange of business or investment property that is of like kind but unequal in value NOTE: Under Internal Revenue Code section 1031, no tax liability results from an exchange solely of like-kind property used in a business or trade or held for investment. If the exchange includes boot, however, under section 1245 the boot will be treated as ordinary income. ...
kidnap
kidnap kid·napped or: kid·naped [-napt] kid·nap·ping or: kid·nap·ing [-na-pi] [probably back-formation from kidnapper, from kid child + obsolete napper thief] : to seize and confine or carry away by force or fraud and often with a demand for ransom kid·nap·per or kid·nap·er [-na-pər] n ...
malfeasance
malfeasance [mal- bad + obsolete English feasance doing, execution, from Old French faisance, from fais-, stem of faire to make, do, from Latin facere] : the commission (as by a public official) of a wrongful or unlawful act involving or affecting the performance of one's duties compare misfeasance, nonfeasance ...
nonfeasance
nonfeasance [non- + obsolete English feasance doing, execution, from Anglo-French fesance, from Old French faisance act, from fais-, stem of faire to do, from Latin facere] : the failure or omission to do something that should be done or esp. something that one is under a duty or obligation to do compare malfeasance, misfeasance ...
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