Reve - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: reveDyke-reed, or Dyke-reve
Dyke-reed, or Dyke-reve, an officer who has the care and oversight of the dykes and drains in fenny countries....
Reve
Reve, means the bailiff of a franchise or manor, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1319....
Reve, or Greve
Reve, or Greve, the bailiff of a franchise or manor, an officer in parishes within forests, who marks the commonable cattle...
Reve
To reave...
Excambium
Excambium, an exchange; a place where merchants meet to transact their business; also an equivalent in recompense; a recompense in lieu of dower ad ostium ecclesi', 1 Reves, 101 and 103....
Greve
Greve [fr. gerefa, or rather, reve, Sax.]', a word of power or authority...
Reveland
Reveland, the land which in Domesday is said to have been thane-land, and afterwards converted into reveland. It seems to have been land which, having reverted to the king after the death of the thane, who had if for life, was not granted out to any by the king, but rested in charge upon the account of the reve or bailiff of the manor, Spelm. Feuds, c. 24....
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