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  • ABBUTALShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ABBUTALS

    among Law-Writers, denote the Buttings or Boundings of a piece of Land ; expressing on what other Lands, Highways, or the like, the several Extremes thereof do abut, or terminate. Thus, in Croke, the Plaintiff is said to fail in his Abbutals, i. e. in...

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

  • ASSARThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ASSART

    Forest, by pulling up, by the Roots, Woods which serve as Thickets and Covert for the Deer, and making them plain as arable Land. See FOREST. This is the greatest Trespass that can be committed inthe Forest, being more than a Waste. For whereas Wasteof...

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

  • ACTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/ACTION

    some other person, for whose fact he is answerable. See PERSONAL. Real Action is that whereby the demandant claims title to lands or tenements, rents or commons, in fee-simple, fee-tail, or for life. See REAL. Real Actions are subdivided into...

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

  • ACREhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACRE

    ACRE, a Quantity of Land, containing four square Roods, or 160 square Poles. See MEASURE; see also ROOD, and PERCH.By a Statute of 31 Eliz. it is ordained, That if any Man erect a new Cottage, he shall add four Acres of Land to it.See COTTAGE.To find...

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

  • ALIENhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ALIEN

    in Law, a Person born out of the King’s Allegiance, and consequently not capable of inheriting Lands in England, till naturalized by Act of Parliament. See NATURALIZATION.Of these there are two Kinds, viz. Alien-Friends, who are of those Countries which...

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

  • AGEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AGE

    At twelve Years, she is able finally to ratify and confirm her former Consent to Matrimony. At fourteen, she may take her Lands into her own Hands; and should be out of Ward, if she were at this Age at her Ancestor’s Death. At sixteen, she should be out...

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

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

    the Art of Heraldry. See HERALDRY and BLAZON. Three Flowers de lys, in a Field Azure, are the Arms of France—The Arms of England are three Lions—In the Arms of Great-Britain are Quartered the Arms of France, England, Scotland, and Ireland. See QUARTER...

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

  • ARMYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/military-art/ARMY

    under him. See SOLDIER, GENERAL, OFFICER, REGIMENT, etc. See also CAVALRY, INFANTRY, etc. This is to be understood of a land army:—A naval or sea army, is a number of ships of war, equipped and manned with marines, under the command of an admiral; with...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Military art

  • ACCOLAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACCOLA

    ACCOLA, properly denotes a Husbandman who came from other Parts to till the Land, Eo quod adveniens terram colat; by which he is distinguished from Incola. Id est, Accola non suam, propriam colit incola terram. Du Fresne. ACCOLA

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

  • ASSETShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ASSETS

    to his hands to discharge that which is in demand. Assets are of two sorts, real and personal— Where a man dies seized of lands in fee-simple, the lands which descend to his heir, are assets real. See REAL. Where he dies possessed of any personal...

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

  • ASSIZEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASSIZE

    or Assise, of Novel Disseisin, which lies where a Tenant in Fee-simple, Fee-tail, or for Life, is lately disseised of his Lands or Tenements, Rent-service, Rent-seek, or Rent-charge, Common of Pasture, common Way, etc. See DISSEISIN, TENANT, &c. To this...

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

  • ADVOWEEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADVOWEE

    Abbeys, Monasteries, etc. — Thus, Charlemagne had the title of Advocate of St. Peter's; King Hugh, of St. Riquier; and Bollandus mentions some letters of Pope Nicholas, by which he constituted King Edward the Confessor, and his successors, Advocates of...

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

  • ALNAGERhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALNAGER

    Ell; signifies a sworn public Officer, who, by himself or Deputy, is to look to the Assize of woollen Cloth made through the Land, i.e., the Length, Width, and Quality thereof; and to the Seals for that purpose ordained.See ALNAGE, CLOTH, etc. There are...

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

  • ESTUARYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/geography/ESTUARY

    Æstuarium, in Geography, an Arm of the Sea; running up a good way into the Land. See SEA.Such is Bristol Channel, many of the Firths of Scotland, etc.Estuary, is sometimes also used in Pharmacy, for a Vapour-Bath, Balneum Vaporosum, See VAPOUR, and...

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

  • ANNUITYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANNUITY

    REVENUE, FEE, etc. In Common Law, the Difference between a Rent and an Annuity consists in this, that Rent is payable out of Land; whereas an Annuity charges only the Person of the Grantor. See RENT, WRIT, ACTION, etc. Add, that annuities are never...

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

  • ARMAMENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARMAMENT

    a large Body of Forces, raised and provided with the Furniture of War, either for Land or Sea Service. See ARMY. ARMAMENT

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

  • ACQUITTALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACQUITTAL

    the Principal in Fact. See ACCESSORY. Acquittal is also used, where there is a Lord Mesne, and Tenant, and the Tenant holds Lands of the Mesne, and the Mesne holds over of the Lord Paramount: Here, the Mesne ought to acquit the Tenant of all Services...

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

  • AMPHIBIOUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/AMPHIBIOUS

    in Natural History, a Term applied to a sort of Animals which live both on Land, and in the Water; that is, which breathe the Air, but pass part of their Time in the Water, as affording 'em their chief Food. See ANIMAL. Such are the Frog, Castor, Otter,...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Natural History

  • ACCEPTANCEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ACCEPTANCE

    particularly used for a tacit kind of agreement to what has been done by another. For instance, if Baron and Feme, seized of land in right of the Feme, make a joint lease or feoffment by deed, reserving rent, and the Baron dies and the Feme receives the...

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

  • ALIENATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ALIENATION

    Alienatio, in Law, the Act of making a thing another Man’s; or the altering, and transferring the Property and Possession of Lands, Tenements, or other Things, from one Man to another. See TRANSFERRING, POSSESSION, etc.To alienate, or alien, in...

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