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Home Dictionary Name: saxon Page 1 of about 117 results (0.002 seconds)Semi Saxon
Half Saxon specifically applied to the language intermediate between Saxon and English belonging to the period 1150 1250...
Saxonic
Relating to the Saxons or Anglo Saxons...
West-Saxon-lage
West-Saxon-lage, the laws of the West Saxons....
Saxon-lage
Saxon-lage, the law of the West Saxons...
Tenure
Tenure, cannot be equated with 'terms and con-ditions of services' or payment of gravity or pension. Tenure when followed by words of office, means term of office, Punjab University v. Khalsa College, Amritsar, AIR 1971 P&H 479: 1971 Cur LJ 334.Means a right, term, or mode of holding lands or tenements in subordination to a superior; in fendal times, real property was held predominantly as part of a tenure system, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1481.Tenure, the mode of holding property. The only tenures in land now existing with a few unimpor-tant exceptions are (1) free and common socage in fee-simple, including enfranchised copyhold, which is subject to paramount incidents; and (2) a term of years absolute (see LAND). The idea of tenure or holding is said to derive from feudalism, which separated the dominium directum (the dominion of the soil), which it placed mediately, or immediately, in the Crown, from the dominium utile (the possessory title), the right to use the profits ...
Saxonism
An idiom of the Saxon or Anglo Saxon language...
Abbas
Abbas [fr. 'stuarium, Lat.] (Anglo-Saxon) singly or in conjunction, the site of an abbey or land belonging to one. For instance, Cerne Abbas in Dorsetshire (from Crem, Anglo-Saxon, a cheese, indicating a place, where cheese-making was carried on) means the abbot's diary or cheese farm. Edmunds, Names of Places, p. 161. According to Cowel, Abbas 'stuarium is Humber in Yorkshire...
Archaionomia
Archaionomia, a collection of Saxon laws, published during the reign of Queen Elizabeth, in the Saxon language, with a Latin version by Lambard....
Heptarchy
Heptarchy [fr., Gk. And apxn], a government exercised by seven persons, or a nation divided into seven governments. In the year 560, seven different monarchies had been formed in England by tribes who had crossed over the North Sea from the mainland, namely, that of Kent by the Jutes; those of Sussex, Wessex and Essex by the Saxons; and those of East Anglia, bernicia, and Deira by the Angles. To these were added, about the year 586, an eighth, called the kingdom of Mercia, also founded by the Angles, and comprehending nearly the whole of the heart of the kingdom. These states formed what has been designated the Anglo-Saxon Octarchy, or more commonly, though not so corre-ctly, the Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy, from the custom of speaking of Deira and Bernicia under the single appellation of the kingdom of Northumberland....
Magna Carta
Magna Carta, [Latin 'great charter'] The English charter that King John granted to the barons in 1215 and Henry III and Edward I later confirmed. It is generally regarded as one of the great common-law documents and as the foundation of constitution liberties. The other three great charters of English Liberty are the Petition of Right (3 Car. (1628)), the Habeas Corpus Act (31 Car. 2 (1679)), and the Bill of Rights (1 Will. SM. (1689)). Also spelled Magna charta, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 963.This Great Charter is based substantially upon the Saxon Common Law, which flourished in this kingdom until the Normaninvasion consolidated the system of feudality, still the great characteristic of the principles of real property. The barons assembled at St.Edmund's Bury, in Suffolk, in the later part of the year 1214, and there solemnly swore upon the high alter to withdraw their allegiance from the Crown, and openly rebel, unless King John confirmed by a formal charter the ancient li...
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