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Court-leet. [Coke says leet is a Saxon word, and comes from the verb gelathian, or gelethian (g being added euphoni' gratia), i.e., convenire, to assemble together, unde conventus, 4 Inst. 261. For other opinions as to the derivation of the word, see Lex Man. 131; Ritson on Courts-leet; and Scriv. On Copyholds.] This court is expressly kept up by s. 40 of the Sheriffs Act, 1887, though for all but formal purposes it has long since fallen into desuetude, and there is still an annual Court-leet of the Manor and Liberty of Savoy which meets at St. Clement Danes Vestry Hall, the High Steward of the Manor presiding, a jury being empannelled one month aftr Easter and serving for a year from that date, the court being held 'for the purpose of preventing small offences in the nature of a common nuisance,' and still having 'power to impose fines for certain offenes, such the stopping up of ways': Solicitor's Journal,Vol. 49, p. 493.The Court-leet is a court of record appointed to be held once a...
Foreclosure
Foreclosure. A mortgagee, or any person claiming an interest in the mortgage under him, can compel the mortgagor, after breach of the condition, to elect either to redeem the pledge or that his equity of redemption be extinguished by an order of the Court. The foreclosure of mortgages is one of the matters assigned to the Chancery Division of the High Court. [Jud. Act, 1925, s. 56(1)]A legal proceeding to terminate a mortgagor's interest in property, instituted by lender either to gain title or to force a sale in order to satisfy the unpaid debt secured by property, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.Law of Property Act, 1925 (English) s. 91, replacing the Conveyancing Act, 1881 (44 & 45 Vict. c. 41), s. 25, replacing the (English) Chancery Procedure Act, 1852 (15 & 16 Vict. c. 86), s. 48, empowers either mortgagor or mortgagee to obtain an order for sale instead of redemption or foreclosure.See ss. 88 and 89 of the (English) L.P. Act, 1925, in regard to the estate acquired by the mortgag...
Freeborough-men
Freeborough-men, such great men as did not engage like the frank-pledge men for their decennier, Jac. Law dict....
Friborough, or frithburgh
Friborough, or frithburgh, the Norman term for frank-pledge....
Gage
Gage [fr. gage,Fr.], a pledge, pawn, or caution; anything given in security.Gage is an older form of wage, and often approved as a phrase, gager deliverance, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 686....
Frith-borg
Frith-borg, frank-pledge, Cowel....
Frithsoke, frithsoken
Frithsoke, frithsoken, the right of liberty of frank-pledge, Fleta....
Fieri feci
Fiducia. If a man transferred his property to another, on condition that it should be restored to him, this contract was called fiducia, and the person to whom the property was so transferred was said fiduciam accipere, Cic. Top. 10. A man might transfer his property to another for greater security in time of danger, or for other sufficient reasons, Gaius, ii. 60.An early form of mortgage or pledge in which debtor passed title to property to creditors by a formal act of sale, yet with express or implied agreement that the creditor would reconvey property once debt was paid, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 640....
Gager de deliverance
Gager de deliverance, when he who has distrained, being sued, has not delivered the cattle distrained; then he shall not only avow the distress, but gager deliverance, i.e., put in surety or pledge that he will deliver them, Fitz. NB 67...
Gemot
Gemot, a mote or moote, meeting, public assembly. The various kinds were-(1) The folc-gemot, or general assembly of the people, whether it was held in a city or town or consisted of the whole shire. It was sometimes summoned by the ringing of the mootbell. Its regular meetings were annual. (2) the shire-gemot, or county Court, which met twice during the year. (3) The burg-gemot, which met thrice in the year. (4) The hundred-gemot, or hundred Court, which met twelve times a year in the Saxon ages; but afterwards a full, perhaps an extraordinary, meeting of every hundred was ordered to be held twice a year. This was the sheriff's tourn or view of franc-pledge. (5) The halle-gemot, or the Court-baron. (6) The wardemotus, Anc. Inst. Eng....
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