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Monstrans de droit
Monstrans de droit (manifestation or plea of right), one of the two Common Law methods of obtaining possession or restitution from the Crown of either real or personal property, Bl. Com. 256. It was preferred either...
Sheriff-geld
Sheriff-geld, a rent formerly paid by a sheriff, and it is prayed that the sheriff in his account may be discharged thereof, Rot. Parl. 50 Edw. 3.
Passing off
Passing off, in action for passing off pray of actual deception is not necessary two marks bear an ovrall similarity as would be likely to mislead a person usually dealing with one to accept the other...
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Petition
Petition, a supplication made by an inferior to a superior, having jurisdiction to grant redress. The subject has a right to petition the sovereign, or the two Houses of Parliament, and all commit-ments and prosecutions for...
Prayer for the Dead
Prayer for the Dead. A bequest of personal estate for masses for the dead is not void as a gift to superstitious uses, Bourne v. Keane, 119 AC 815; overruling West v. Shuttleworth, (1835) 2 My&K...
Precatory words
Precatory words, expressions in a will, praying or recommending that a thing be done; e.g., that property bequeathed to a legatee be disposed of by him for the benefit of other persons ,the question then arising...
Procedendo on aid prayer
Procedendo on aid prayer. If one pray in aid of the Crown in real action, and aid be granted, it shall be awarded that he sue to the sovereign in Chancery, and the justices in the...
Bidding Prayer
Bidding Prayer, an old form of prayer used before sermon, exhorting the people to pray for men of all conditions. A similar prayer for the University is used in the University Churches of Oxford and Cambridge.
Short-ford
Short-ford. The ancient custom of the city of Exeter is, when the lord of the fee cannot be answered rent due to him out of his tenement, and no distress can be levied for the same,...
Similiter
Similiter [Lat.] (in like manner). Formerely when an issue of fact was tendered, the words were as follows: 'and of this the defendant puts himself upon the country'; or thus, 'and this the plaintiff prays may...
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