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Customs

Customs, duties charged upon commodities on their importation into, or exportation out of, a country. They seem to have existed...

Clarendon, constitutions of, assize of. At a great council held at Clarendon, in Wiltshire, A.D. 1164, in the tenth year...

Copyhold. Tenure in copyhold has been abolished under the (English) L.P. Acts, 1922 and 1925, and the Amending Acts of...

Marriage. Marriage as understood in Christendom is the voluntary union for life of one man and one woman, to the...

Poor laws. By the (English) Poor Relief Act, 1601, (43 Eliz. c. 2), frequently called 'The Act of Elizabeth,' overseers...

Testa de nevil, an ancient document in two volumes, in the custody of the King's Remembrancer in the Exchequer, more...

Supreme Court of Judicature. By Judicature Act, 1925, s. 1, there shall be a Supreme Court of Judicature in England...

Restitutio in integrum, the rescinding of a contract or transaction, so as to place the parties to it in the...

Prerogative of mercy. In early times the operation of the Royal Prerogative of Mercy was far wider than at the...

Heirloom [fr. h'res, Lat., heir, and geloma, Sax., goods], personal chattels, such as charters, deeds, and evidences of title, coat...