The Publications of the Selden Society, Band 25

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Selden Society, 1911
 

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Seite xliv - Parliament, that the chancellor and treasurer of England for the time being and keeper of the King's privy seal, or two of them, calling to them a bishop and a temporal lord of the King's most honourable council and the two chief justices of the King's Bench and Common Pleas for the time being, or other two justices in their absence...
Seite 35 - The statute 2 Richard II, c. 1, s. 5, enacted with some alterations the previous statute. It commenced thus: Of devisors of false news and of horrible and false lies of prelates, dukes, earls, barons, and other nobles and great men of the realm...
Seite 31 - Tenant in dower is where a man is seised of certain lands or tenements in fee simple, fee tail general, or as heir in special tail, and taketh a wife, and dieth, the wife, after the decease of her husband, shall be endowed of the third part of such lands and tenements as were her husband's at any time during the coverture, to have and to hold to the same wife in severalty, by metes and bounds, for term of her life...
Seite 42 - The Act goes on to define champerty (campi-partitio). ' Champerters be they that move Pleas and Suits, or cause to be moved either by their own procurement or by others, and sue them at their proper Costs, for to have part of the Land in variance, or Part of the Gains.
Seite lxiv - Which is not always, as Sir Edward Coke says, to be understood of every unlearned man's reason, but of artificial and legal reason, warranted by authority of law. Upon which account a custom may be good, though the particular reason of it cannot be assigned ; for it sufficeth, if no good legal reason can be assigned against it. Thus a custom in a parish, that no man shall put his beasts into the common till the...
Seite 397 - In case of equality the Chairman of the Meeting shall have a second or casting vote.
Seite 398 - An Annual General Meeting of the Society shall be held in March 1896, and thereafter in the month of March in each year. The Council may upon their own resolution, and shall on the request in writing of not less than ten members, call a Special General Meeting. Seven days...
Seite 377 - FOUNDED 1887, To ENCOURAGE THE STUDY AND ADVANCE THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH LAW.
Seite 397 - Director (but always subject to the control of the Council) to supervise the editing of the publications of the Society, to suggest suitable editors, and generally to advise the Council with respect to carrying the objects of the Society into effect. 12. Each member shall be entitled to one copy of every work published by the Society as for any year of his membership. No person other than an Honorary Member shall receive any such work until his subscription for the year as for which the same shall...
Seite 42 - Conspirators be they that do confeder or bind themselves by oath, covenant, or other alliance, that every of them shall aid and bear the other falsely and maliciously to indict, or cause to indict, or falsely to move or maintain pleas...

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