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Charter-land
Charter-land, otherwise called bookland, property held by deed under certain rents and free-services. It in effect difers nothing from the free socage lands, and hence have arisen most of the freehold tenants, who hold of particular...
Canonical obedience
Canonical obedience, that duty which a clergyman owes to the bishop who ordained him, to the bishop in whose diocese he is beneficed, and also to the metropolitan of such bishop.
Moral turpitude
Moral turpitude, 'Moral turpitude' is an expression which is used in legal as also societal parlance to describe conduct which is inherently base, vile, depraved or having any connection showing depravity, Pawan Kumar v. State of...
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Bock-land, Boc-land, or Book-land
Bock-land, Boc-land, or Book-land, one of the original modes of tenure of manor-land, also called charter-land or deep-land, which was held by a short and simple deed under certain rents and free services, and in effect...
Lawless Court
Lawless Court [quia dicta sine lege, Lat.], 'a tribunal held on King's Hill, at Rochford, in Essex, on Wednesday morning next after Michaelmas Day, yearly, at cock-crowing, at which Court they whisper, and have no candle,...
Servitiis acquietandis
Servitiis acquietandis, a judicial writ for a man distrained for service to one, when he owes and performs them to another, for the acquittal of such services, Reg. Judic. 27.
Net wealth
Net wealth, 'net wealth' means the amount by which the aggregate value computed in accordance with the provisions of this Act of all the assets wherever located, belonging to the assessee on the valuation date, including...
Reeve
Reeve [fr. gerefa, Sax.], a steward or bailiff. See DYKE-REEVE; FIELD-REEVE. A ministerial officer of high rank having local jurisdiction, the chief magistrate of a hundred, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1284. Reeve, means a...
Attornato faciendo vel recipiendo
Attornato faciendo vel recipiendo, an obsolete writ, which commanded a sheriff or steward of a county court or hundred court to receive and admit an attorney to appear for the person who owed suit of court,...
Trustee
Trustee, is the legal owner of the property the actual owner thereof having lost title thereto by the creation of a trust. The equitable ownership in the trust property vests in the beneficiaries. The trust is...
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