Precincts - Law Dictionary Search Results

Capitula ruralia, assemblies or chapters, held by rural deans and parochial clergy, within the precinct of every deanery; which at first were every three weeks, afterwards, once a month, and subsequently once a

Cognizance, or conusance

granted by the Crown to a town or place, to hold pleas of all contracts, etc., within the precinct of the franchise; and when a person is impleaded for such matters in the King's Court at Westminster,

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Forest

forest, chase, park, and warren (which means all animals pursued in field sports), in a certain teritory or precinct of woody ground and pasture set apart for the purpose, with laws and officers of its own, established

Law of marque

been wronged but cannot obtain justice to take the goods of the wrongdoer found within the wronged person's precinct, in satisfaction of the wrong, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 893. Law of Marque. See LETTERS OF

Marque, law of

receive ordinary justice to take the goods of the wrongdoer (if they can be found within one's own precinct) in satisfaction for the wrong, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 986.

Ordels

Ordels, the right of administering oaths and adjudging trials by ordeal within a precinct or liberty.

Piedpoudre, Court of

fair continues longer. The court had cognizance of all matters of contract that could possibly arise within the precinct of that fair or market, and the plaintiff must make oath that the cause of action arose there.

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