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Mediators of questions
Mediators of questions, six persons authorised by statute, who, upon any question arising among merchants, relating to unmerchantable wool, or undue packing, etc., might, before the mayor and officers of the staple, upon their oath, certify and settle the same; to whose determination therein the parties concerned were to submit, 27 Edw. 3, st. 2, c. 24....
Jus stapulae
Jus stapulae, means 'right of staple'. A town's right or privilege of stopping imported merchandise and forcing it to be offered for sale in its own market. Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 868....
Inns of Chancery
Inns of Chancery, so called because anciently inhab-ited by such clerks as chiefly studied the framing of writs, which regularly belonged to the cursitors, who were officers of the Court of Chancery. There were nine of them-Clement's, Clifford's, Lyon's, Furnival's, Thavies', Symond's, New Inn, and Barnard's and Staple Inn. These were formerly pre-paratory colleges for students, and many entered them before they were admitted into the Inns of Court. See 3 Rep., Pref., p. 18; Report of Royal Commission, 1855.The Inns of Court from time to time agree on certain 'Consolidated Regulations,' as to the admission of students, the mode of keeping terms, the education and examination of students, the calling of stu-dents to the Bar, and the taking out of certificates to practice under the Bar. These Regulations, a copy of which can be obtained on application to any one of the Inns, contain full information as to the steps necessary to be taken in order to being called to the Bar. See BENCHERS; ...
Estate
Estate [fr. status, Lat.; etat, Fr.], the condition and circumstance in which an owner stands with regard to his property. The word is used in several senses and may denote either an estate in land; or an estate in property other than land; a legal estate or an equitable estate, land being an immovable is capable of being the subject of many estates existing concurrently with each other, thus the absolute ownership or fee simple may be leased and sub-leased, mortgaged and charged, each of the holders of these estates having a good legal or equitable estate at the same time; again, estates may be in possession, or in futuro; personal property may also be subject concurrently to a variety of ownerships, according to its nature; technically, in regard to land, the word is used to denote the quantity of interest, e.g., estate in fee simple, for life, for years, etc., in either legal or equitable estates. In practice its most important division is into real estate and personal estate, altho...
Kersey
A kind of coarse woolen cloth usually ribbed woven from wool of long staple...
Padlock
A portable lock with a bow which is usually jointed or pivoted at one end so that it can be opened the other end being fastened by the bolt used for fastening by passing the bow through a staple over a hasp or through the links of a chain etc...
Noil
A short or waste piece or knot of wool separated from the longer staple by combing also a similar piece or shred of waste silk...
kurakkan
An East Indian cereal grass Eleusine coracana whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour a staple in the Orient...
Dasheen
A tropical aroid of the genus Caladium syn Colocasia having an edible farinaceous root It is related to the taro and to the tanier but is much superior to it in quality and is as easily cooked as the potato It is a staple food plant of the tropics being prepared like potatoes and has been introduced into the Southern United States...
coracan
an East Indian cereal grass Eleusine coracana whose seeds yield a somewhat bitter flour a staple in the Orient...
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