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Hostilaria, Hospitalaria
Hostilaria, Hospitalaria, a place or room in religious houses used for the reception of guests and strangers.
Drifts of the forest
into some pound or place enclosed for the before-mentioned purposes, and also to discover whether any cattle of strangers be there, which ought not to common, Manwood, p. 2, c. xv.
Court-baron
assented thereto, unless they were made by prescription or under an immemorial custom. These laws could never bind strangers. The penalty for the breach of a bye-law was in the nature of a fine rather than amercement,and
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parties are entitled to bring actions for injuries done to their respective interests, and that both as against strangers and against each other. It is called an incorporeal right, which lies in grant, as if originally commencing
Hospitality
The act or practice of one who is hospitable reception and entertainment of strangers or guests without reward or with kind and generous liberality
Attornment
(English) Distress for Rent Act, 1737 (11 Geo. 2, c. 19), s. 11, attornments made by tenants to strangers claiming title to the estate of their landlord are null and void, and their landlord's possession is not
Agistment
Act, 1923. See also Manwood's Forest Laws, cc. 11-80, where to 'agist' is to take in and feed strangers' cattle in the Royal Forest and to collect the money due for it. Agistment does not include a
Scavage
A toll or duty formerly exacted of merchant strangers by mayors sheriffs etc for goods shown or offered for sale within their precincts
Prytaneum
Athens regarded as the home of the community in which official hospitality was extended to distinguished citizens and strangers
Polemarch
In Athens originally the military commanderin chief but afterward a civil magistrate who had jurisdiction in respect of strangers and sojourners In other Grecian cities a high military and civil officer
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