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Mobles [fr. meubles, Fr. and mobilia, Lat.], movable goods; furniture. Obsolete word....
Insimul computasset
Insimul computasset (he accounted together), a writ of action of account which lay for things uncertain. Obsolete....
Heraldry
Heraldry: (1) The science of heralds; see last title. (2) An old and obsolete abuse of buying and selling precedence in the paper of causes for hearing, See North's Life of Lord-Keeper Guilford, 204....
Identitate, or idemptitate nominis
Identitate, or idemptitate nominis, an ancient and obsolete writ that lay for one taken and arrested in any personal action and committed to prison for another man of the same name, Fitz. NB 267....
Fine capiendo pro terris
Fine capiendo pro terris, etc., an obsolete writ which lay for a person who, upon conviction by a jury, had his lands and goods taken, and his body imprisoned, to be remitted his imprisonment, and have his land and goods redelivered to him on obtaining favour of a sum of money, etc., Reg. Brev. 142....
Devisavit vel non
Devisavit vel non, an issue sent from the Court of Chancery to a Court of law, to try the validity of a paper asserted to be a will disposing of real estate, to ascertain whether or not the testator did devise or whether or not the paper was his will. Obsolete....
Divine Service, Tenure by
Divine Service, Tenure by, an obsolete holding, in which the tenants were obliged to perform some special divine services, as to sing so many masses, etc., Litt. S. 137....
Edderbreche
Edderbreche [Sax.], the offence of hedge-breaking. Obsolete....
Escape
Escape [fr. echapper, Fr., to fly from], a violent or private evasion out of some lawful restraint; as where a man is arrested or imprisoned, and gets away before he is delivered by due course of law. Escapes are either in civil or criminal cases.(1) Civil. The abolition of imprisonment for debt has rendered this all but obsolete, and the sheriff is expressly discharged from any liability by s. 31 of the Prison Act, 1877, repealed and re-enacted by s. 16, sub-s. 2, and s. 39 of the (English) Sheriffs Act, 1887. Escapes are either voluntary, by the express consent of the keeper, after which he never can take his prisoner again (though the plaintiff may retake him at any time), but the sheriff had to answer for the debt, and he had no remedy over against the person escaping; or, negligent, where a prisoner escapes without his keeper's knowledge or consent, and then upon fresh pursuit the defendant may be retaken, even on a Sunday, and the sheriff was excused, if he had him again, before ...
Estoverlis habendis
Estoverlis habendis, a writ for a wife judicially separated to recover her alimony or estovers. Obsolete....
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