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Monarchal

Pertaining to a monarch suiting a monarch sovereign regal imperial

Pibroch

A Highland air suited to the particular passion which the musician would either excite or assuage generally applied to those airs that

Champertors

Champertors, persons who move please or suits, or cause them to be moved, either by their own procurement, or by others, and sue them at

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Amhiniogau tir

Amhiniogau tir (land borderers), witnesses in a Court in suits respecting landed property, whose lands bordered on that in dispute, Anc. Inst. Wales.

Breve perquirere

to the Crown where the debt is 40l., and of 10s. where the debt is 100l., etc, is suits and trials for money due upon bond, etc.

Borough Courts

or Act of Parliament, in particular districts for the convenience of the inhabitants, that they may prosecute small suits, and receive justice at home. In boroughs subject to the Municipal Corporations Acts they are termed 'borough civil

Barratry

Barratry, 1. Usually called 'common barratry,' the common moving of suits and quarrels in disturbance of the peace, either in courts or elsewhere. The punishment is fine and imprisonment;

Augmentation

Augmentation, the name of a court (now abolished) erected by 27 hen. 8, c. 27, to determine suits and controversies relating to monasteries and abbey-lands, Termes de la Ley.

Arrest

CONTEMPT OF COURT. The two great statues for securing the liberty of the subject against unlawful arrests and suits are Magna Charta and the Habeas Corpus Act (31 Car. 2, c. 2), which is amended and enforced

Arm of the State

instrumentalities of the State, such as a State University or a State Department of U.S. Constitution generally bars suits in Federal Court by individuals against States. The amendment has been interpreted as protecting arms of the State

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Monarchal

Pertaining to a monarch suiting a monarch sovereign regal imperial

Pibroch

A Highland air suited to the particular passion which the musician would either excite or assuage generally applied to those airs that

Champertors

Champertors, persons who move please or suits, or cause them to be moved, either by their own procurement, or by others, and sue them at

Keep your definitions linked to case research

Amhiniogau tir

Amhiniogau tir (land borderers), witnesses in a Court in suits respecting landed property, whose lands bordered on that in dispute, Anc. Inst. Wales.

Breve perquirere

to the Crown where the debt is 40l., and of 10s. where the debt is 100l., etc, is suits and trials for money due upon bond, etc.

Borough Courts

or Act of Parliament, in particular districts for the convenience of the inhabitants, that they may prosecute small suits, and receive justice at home. In boroughs subject to the Municipal Corporations Acts they are termed 'borough civil

Barratry

Barratry, 1. Usually called 'common barratry,' the common moving of suits and quarrels in disturbance of the peace, either in courts or elsewhere. The punishment is fine and imprisonment;

Augmentation

Augmentation, the name of a court (now abolished) erected by 27 hen. 8, c. 27, to determine suits and controversies relating to monasteries and abbey-lands, Termes de la Ley.

Arrest

CONTEMPT OF COURT. The two great statues for securing the liberty of the subject against unlawful arrests and suits are Magna Charta and the Habeas Corpus Act (31 Car. 2, c. 2), which is amended and enforced

Arm of the State

instrumentalities of the State, such as a State University or a State Department of U.S. Constitution generally bars suits in Federal Court by individuals against States. The amendment has been interpreted as protecting arms of the State

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