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  • ATTACHMENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ATTACHMENT

    by writ, differs from a distress in this, that an attachment does not reach lands, as a distress does; and that a distress. Distress does not touch the body, which an attachment does— Yet the two are frequently confounded together. In the most common...

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

  • CHEVAGEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/CHEVAGE

    or CHIEFAGE, according to Bracton, signifies a Tribute by the Head; or a kind of Poll-Money antiently paid by such as held Lands in Villanage, or otherwise, to their Lords, in acknowledgment. See POLL. The Word seems also to have been us'd for a Sum of...

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

  • AD Terminum qui praeterithttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AD%20Terminum%20qui%20praeterit

    Terminum qui praeterit, is a writ of entry, which lies where a man, having leased lands or tenements for term of life, or years, is, after the term expired, held from them by the tenant, or other stranger who enjoys the same, and deforces the lessor....

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

  • AGISThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/AGIST

    ad Custodiam Maris Agistate, i.e. charged with a tribute to keep out the sea. Selden. Mare Clausum—So, Terre Agistate, are lands whose owners are bound to keep up the sea-banks, Spelman.The word is formed of the French Gîte, a bed, or lying-place. AGIST

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

  • AILEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/AILE

    in law, a writ which lies where the grandfather, or great grandfather called Befaile, was seized of lands or tenements in fee-simple, on the day he died; and a stranger abates or enters the same day, and dispossesses the heir. The word is formed from...

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

  • ASSIGNhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ASSIGN

    is also used for the appointing of a Deputy, or the making over a Right to another. See ASSIGNEE. In this Sense we say, such Lands or Estate were assigned or affected to such Persons for such Uses, etc. See AFFECTION, etc. In the Stat. 20 Edw. I. we...

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

  • AUMONEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AUMONE

    or ALMS. See ALMS. Tenure in AUMONE, is where Lands are given to a Religious House, or Church, that some Service may be said for the good of the Donor’s Soul. See TENURE. AUMONE

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

  • AVOWEEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AVOWEE

    present in another Man’s Name, as a Guardian that presents in the Name of his Ward; as also from those who only have the Lands whereto an Advowson belongs for Term of Life, or Years, by Intrusion, or Disseisin. AVOWEE

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

  • APPANAGEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APPANAGE

    Appanagium, Appanace, or Appennagium, the Fortune of a King’s younger Son: or a settled Portion of Lands, etc., assigned for the Subsistence of the Cadets, or younger Sons of a Sovereign Prince. See KING, etc. The younger Sons of England have no certain...

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

  • ABATEMENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ABATEMENT

    the old Nat. Bev. To abate a Castle, or Fortlet, is interpreted, to beat it down. ABATEMENT is also an irregular Entry upon Lands, or Tenements, left vacant by their former Possessor, and not yet laid hold of by the next Heir. As he that puts out the...

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

  • ANNEXATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ANNEXATION

    in Law, the uniting of Lands or Rents to the Crown. See ANNEXED. ANNEXATION

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

  • ARRENTATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARRENTATION

    Arrentation,in the Forest Law, the Licensing an Owner of Lands in the Forest, to enclose them with a low Hedge and small Ditch, in consideration of a yearly Rent. See FOREST, PURVIEW, etc. Saving the Arrentations, denotes a Power reserved to give such...

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

  • ANTICHRESIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTICHRESIS

    in the Civil Law, a Covenant or Convention, whereby a Person borrowing Money of another, engages, or makes over his Lands to the Creditor, with the Use and Occupation thereof, for the Interest of the Money lent. This Covenant was allowed of by the...

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

  • ASSART-RENTShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASSART-RENTS

    were those paid to the Crown for the Forest Lands assarted. See RENT. ASSART-RENTS

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

  • ACCUMULATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACCUMULATION

    The word is compounded of ad and cumulus, "heap."The lawyers speak of an accumulation of titles; as, when a person claims lands, a benefice, or the like, in virtue of several titles or pretensions of different kinds; e.g. by death, by resignation, etc....

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

  • AUGMENTATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AUGMENTATION

    under Henry VIII, to the end the king might be justly dealt with, touching the profit of such religious houses, and their lands, as were given him by act of parliament the same year.—This court was dissolved under Queen Mary, by the parliament held the...

    • 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

  • 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

  • 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
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