Thistle - Law Dictionary Search Results
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Thistle, it was the custom within the manor of Halton, in Chester, that if, in driving beasts over a common, the driver permitted them to graze or take but a thistle, he should pay a halfpenny a-piece, called a 'thistle-take,' to the lord of the fee. And at Fiskerton, in Notinghamshire, by ancient custom, if a native or a cottager killed a swine above a year old, he paid to the lord a penny, which purchase of leave to kill a hog was also called thistle-take.It has been held that an occupier of land has no duty towards his neighbour to prevent thistles from seeding, and is not liable to his neighbour for damage by the seeds being blown on to his neighbour's land, Giles v. Walker, (1890) 24 QBD 656...
Blessed thistle
See under Thistle...
Knights of the Thistle
Knights of the Thistle. This order is said to have been instituted by Achaius, King of Scotland, A.D. 819. The better opinion, however, is that it was instituted by James V. in 1534, was revived by James VII. (James II. of England) in 1687, and re-established by Queen Anne in 1703. See Nicholas's History of the Orders of Knighthood of the British Empire. they have no rank in England....
Centaurea
A large genus of composite plants related to the thistles and including the cornflower or bluebottle Centaurea Cyanus and the star thistle Centaurea Calcitrapa...
Carduus
a genus of annual or perennial Old World prickly thistles...
Carline thistle
A prickly plant of the genus Carlina Carlina vulgaris found in Europe and Asia...
Cnicus
a genus of plants having only one species the blessed thistle...
Eryngium
A large genus of umbelliferous plants somewhat like thistles in appearance cosmopolitan in distribution Eryngium maritimum or sea holly has been highly esteemed as an aphrodisiac the roots being formerly candied...
Floret
A little flower one of the numerous little flowers which compose the head or anthodium in such flowers as the daisy thistle and dandelion...
Goldfinch
A beautiful bright colored European finch Carduelis elegans The name refers to the large patch of yellow on the wings The front of the head and throat are bright red the nape with part of the wings and tail black called also goldspink goldie fools coat drawbird draw water thistle finch and sweet William...
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