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Arrestando ipsum qui pecuniam recepit
Arrestando ipsum qui pecuniam recepit, a writ which issued for apprehending a person who had taken the king's prest money to serve in the wars, and then hid himself in order to avoid going, Ibid. 24.
Heir
who must by the course of the Common Law be heir to his father on his death, 3 Prest. Abst. 5. Especially the eldest son of the Sovereign as heir to the Crown; or the eldest son
Original and derivative estates
derivative estate; and a derivative estate is a particular interest carved out of another estate of larger extent, Prest. On Est. 125.
Particular estate
carved out of a larger estate, which then becomes an expectancy either in reversion or remainder. See 3 Prest. Conv. 169.
Precedence or precedency
' by ancient usage and established custom, Camden's Brit., tit. 'Ordines'; Milles's Cat. of Hon. 1610; and Chamberlayne's Prest. St. of Eng., b. 3, c. iii; see 1 Bl. Com. 404. * The King's children and grandchildren.
Quod meum est sine facto meo vel defectu meo amitti vel in alium transferri non potest
Quod meum est sine facto meo vel defectu meo amitti vel in alium transferri non potest (Prest. Abs. 147), what is mine cannot be lost or transferred to another without alienation or forfeiture.
Scintilla juris et tituli
St. Leonards (1 Powers, c. 1, s. 3, and note 10 to Gilb. Uses, p. 296), and Mr. Preston (1 Prest. Est., p. 170), and 1 Hayes' Conv., p. 61) opposed it; and Lord St. Leonards contends
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