Razee - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: razeeDemolish
To throw or pull down to raze to destroy the fabric of to pull to pieces to ruin as to demolish an edifice or a wall...
Race
To raze...
Raze
A Shakespearean word used once supposed to mean the same as race a root...
Razed
Slashed or striped in patterns...
Razee
An armed ship having her upper deck cut away and thus reduced to the next inferior rate as a seventy four cut down to a frigate...
Liberam legem amittere
Liberam legem amittere, to lose one's free law (called the villanious judgment), to become discredited or disabled as juror and witness, to forfeit goods and chattels and lands for life, to have those lands wasted, houses razed, trees rooted up, and one's body committed to prison. It was anciently pronounced against conspirators, but is now disused, the punishment substituted being fine and imprisonment. Hawk. P.C. 61, c. lxxii. S. 9; 3 Inst. 221....
Villenous judgment
Villenous judgment [villanum judicium, Lat.], a judgment which deprived one of his libera lex, whereby he was discredited and disabled as a juror or witness; forfeited his goods and chattels, and lands for life; wasted the lands, razed the houses, rooted up the trees, and committed his body to prison. It has long become obsolete, 4 Bl. Com. 136; 4 Steph. Com.; and 4 Br. & Had. Com. 153....
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