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  • ARMShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARMS

    it became the custom here in England, for private gentlemen to bear arms; borrowing them from the lords of whom they held in fee, or to whom they were the most devoted. Arms, at present, follow the nature of titles, which being made hereditary, these...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ACEPHALUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACEPHALUS

    etc. In our ancient law-books, the term is also used for those poor people who had no proper lord; as holding nothing in fee, either of king, bishop, baron, or other feudal lord.L. Hen. I. In ecclesiastical history, Acephali frequently occurs as the...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • APPORTIONMENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/APPORTIONMENT

    be apportioned: As, if a Man hath a Rent-Charge issuing out of Land, and his Father purchases a part of the Land charged in fee, and dies; and this Parcel descends to his Son, who hath the Rent-Charge: there the Charge shall be apportioned according to...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Law

  • ANNEXEDhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANNEXED

    something joined to, or dependent on, another: Thus we say such a Farm, such an Advowson is annexed to such a Fee, such a Manor, etc. Charles VII, in the Year 1486, annexed Provence to the Crown of France. ANNEXED

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ALLODIALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ALLODIAL

    not subject to any Charge, Service, &c. See FREE LAND. In this Sense, Allodial stands opposed to Feudal, or Beneficiary. See FEE, BENEFICE, etc. —See also ALLODIUM. ALLODIAL

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Law

  • ABISHERSINGhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ABISHERSING

    Grant, gives the Proprietor not only the Forfeitures, and Amerciaments of all others for Transgressions committed within his Fee ; but also exempts him from all such controul by any wirhin that Compass. According to Spelman, it originally signifies a...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Law
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