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Gleaning, Leasing, or Lesing

Gleaning, Leasing, or Lesing. No right exists at Common Law for the poor to enter on a person's land and...

Hospitals, eleemosynary corporations. They are either aggregate, in which the master or warden and his brethren have the estate of...

Contra formam collationis, a writ that issued where lands given in perpetual alms to any late houses of religion, as...

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Certiorari (to be more fully informed of), an original writ issuing out of the Crown side of the King's Bench...

Client [fr. cliens, Lat., said to contain the same element as they verb clueo, to hear of obey, and accordingly...

Civil Law, that rule of action which every particular nation, commonwealth, or city has established peculiarly for itself, more properly...

Charity, the word 'charity' which in common parlance is a word denoting a giving to some one in necessitous circumstances...

Bounty of Queen Anne, given by royal charter, which was confirmed by Queen Anne (2 Anne, c. 11), whereby all...

Boundaries are the lines marking the division between two adjacent territories. The boundary may be (a) physical, or (b) national...

Board [fr. A. Sax. Bord, a plank or table], a body of persons having delegated to them certain powers of...

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