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Statute staple
Statute staple, a bond of record acknowledged before the mayor of the staple, in the presence of the constables of the staple, or one of them; the only seal required for its validity was the seal of the staple, and therefore if the statute were void for any cause, it could not, as in the case of a statute-merchant (q.v.), be proceeded on as a common obligation; and, wanting the sanction of the seal of the king, the sheriff, after the extent, could not deliver the lands to the consuee, but had to seize them into the king's hands; and in order to obtain possession of them, the conusee had to sue out a writ of Liberate, which was a writ out of Chancery, reciting the former writ, and commanding the sheriff to deliver to the conusee all the lands, tenements, and chattels by him taken into the king's hands, if the conusee would have them, until he should be satisfied his debt. Obsolete. See STAPLE...
Staple
Staple, a public mart which anciently was appointed by law to be held in Westminster, Newcastle, Bristol, and other places. A Court was held before the mayor of the staple, which court was governed by the law merchant. It appears from Statute 14 Ric. 2, that the staple goods of England then were wool, woolfells, leather, lead, tin, cloth, butter cheese, etc....
Corrector of the staple
Corrector of the staple, a clerk belonging to the staple, to write an record the bargains of merchants there made, 27 Edw. 3, stat. 2, Contract Act, 1872....
Staple, Statute of the
Staple, Statute of the, 27th Edw. 3, st. 2, repealed by the (English) Statute Law Revision Act, 1863. See STATUTE STAPLE...
Hasp and staple
Hasp and staple, the old form of the entry of an heir into premises held by burgage tenure in Scotland-Bell's Dict....
Staple inn
Staple inn, an Inn of Chancery. See INNS OF CHANCERY....
Cotton
A soft downy substance resembling fine wool consisting of the unicellular twisted hairs which grow on the seeds of the cotton plant Long staple cotton has a fiber sometimes almost two inches long short staple from two thirds of an inch to an inch and a half...
Certificando de recognitione stapul'
Certificando de recognitione stapul', a writ commanding the mayor of the staple to certify to the Lord Chancellor a statute-staple taken before him where the party himself detains it, and refuses to bring in the same. There is like writ to certify a statute-merchant, and in divers other cases, Reg. Brev. 148, 151, 152....
Chattels or catals
Chattels or catals [fr. Catalla, Lat.; chatel, Fr.; chaptel, Old Fr.]. The word 'catalla' among the Normans primarily signified only beasts of husbandry or, as they are still called, cattle, but in a secondary sense the term was extended to all movables and not only to these but to whatsoever was not a fief or feud or, at a later date, in the nature of freehold or parcel of it. The distinction in the class of chattels survives in the legal meaning of the terms, 'personal chattels,' denoting movable property and 'chattels real,' which concern the realty, such as terms of years of lands or tenements, wardships, the interest of tenant by statute staple, by statute merchant, by elegit, and such like, Co. Litt., 118 b.Chattels personal or in a more narrow and more modern sense, 'chattels' (cf. 'goods and chattels' in the writ of fieri facias) (q.v.), means movable property or effects which belong personally to the owner and for which if they are injuriously withheld from him he has, in gene...
Statute stapul'
Statute stapul', the ancient writ that lay to take the body to prison, and seize upon the lands and goods of one who had forfeited the bond called statute-staple, Reg. Brev. 151....
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