Sinew - Law Dictionary Search Results
Cultivating tenant
he should contribute physical labour. The use of physical labour includes physical strain, the use of muscles and sinews. Mere supervision of work, or maintaining of accounts or distributing the wages will not be such contribution of
Magna Carta
est pacis vinculum et bellorum nervi (the public revenue is at once the security of peace and the sinews of war). The 9th chapter perpetuates our right of self-government, the source and bulwork of our constitutional freedom.
Subnervare
Subnervare, to ham-string by cutting the sinews of the legs and thighs. It is said to have been a custom of semi-civilized savages, meretrices et
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Title to lands, Documents of
Co. v. Denton, (1906) 2 KB 873. Properly speak-ing, however, they are not chattels; Coke calls them 'the sinewes of the land' (Co. Litt.6 a), and they are so closely connected with it that they will pass,
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