MRP: Legal Glossary
Contents
- 1 C17th legal glossary
- 1.1 Answer
- 1.2 Assignment of lease
- 1.3 Bayle
- 1.4 Bill of complaint
- 1.5 Confederation
- 1.6 Consideration
- 1.7 Counterpart
- 1.8 Court of Chancery
- 1.9 Court of Common Pleas
- 1.10 Court of the King's bench
- 1.11 Court of Requests
- 1.12 Devise
- 1.13 Dispose
- 1.14 Estate
- 1.15 Indenture
- 1.16 Interogatory
- 1.17 Jointure
- 1.18 Lease
- 1.19 Power to dispose
- 1.20 Reversion
- 1.21 Trust
- 1.22 Writ of condemnation
- 1.23 Writ of subpoena
- 1.24 TERMS FOR POSSIBLE INCLUSION
- 1.25 Inner Temple historical legal glossary
C17th legal glossary
This page provides a legal glossary to Chancery and other commercial oriented legal process in the mid seventeenth century
== Annuity =
Variant: Annuitie
Example:
Answer
Example:
Assignment of lease
Example:
Bayle
Example: "I went to Councell & soe to Yeld hall where I caused Bayle both for y:e 15000:ll & your goods which were nallowed [?] at 3600:ll ... 25th September 1662, Letter from Elizabeth Dalyson to Sir GO
Bill of complaint
Example: "Humbly complayning showing unto yo:r Lordship"
== Charge =
Variants: Chardge; Allowable charge
Example: "had power to charge or dispose of ye said Lease"; "ye charges of renewing of ye said Lease satisffyed "; "uncharged"
Confederation
Variant; Confederacon
Example:
Consideration
Variants: Consideracion
Counterpart
Example:
Court of Chancery
Example:
Court of Common Pleas
Example: "according to advise remooved y:e sute up into y:e Common pleas" 25th September 1662, Letter from Elizabeth Dalyson to Sir GO
- Wikipedia entry on the English Court of Common Pleas
Court of the King's bench
Example:
- Sir Edward Coke (1552-1634), of the Inner Temple, was Chief Justice of the King's Bench (1613-1616), having previously been the Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas
Court of Requests
Example: "For the benefit of Trade and Act was obtained in 1781 to establish a court or requests, for the more easy and speedy recovery of small debts under the value of forty shillings, within the city of Rochester, and the several parishes of Strood, Frindsbury, Cobham, Shorne, Higham, Cliffe, Cooling, High-Halstow, Chalk, Hoo, Burham, Wouldham, Halling, Coxstone, Chatham, Gillingham, and the Ville of Sheerness in the county of Kent." http://www.archive.org/stream/historyantiquiti00denn#page/314/mode/2up
Devise
Example: "the Bishop of Rochester devised to the said Robert Raworth ye said Bishops place & premisses for ye lives of yo:r orators mother your orator & his son"
Dispose
Example:
== Equity =
Example: "Said Mother had the legall Interest of & in the said lands & p:rmisses, or otherwise that shee had some equitable power to charge the said Lands by her said will"
Estate
Example: "temporal estate"
Indenture
Example: "indentures tripartite"
Interogatory
Example:
Jointure
Variants: Joynture
Example:
Lease
Example:
== Portion =
Variants: Porcion; Marriage portion
Example: "Said Mother demanded to have paid her one Thousand pounds for the portions of her two Daughters"
Power to dispose
Example:
Reversion
Example: "Granted the reversion of the same lands "
Trust
Variant: Trusts
Example: “the Trusts hereby lymmitted to the said Maximilian Dallison Mary Dallison and Margaret Dallison should cease”; "did acknowledge as the Trust was & is that shee had not legallTitle or Interest in the said lands"
For background information see wikipedia entry on - 'wills and trusts'
Writ of condemnation
Example: "all yoar goodes in Bretons house & in his handes & your five hundred pounds in y:e East India Comp:a was attached [could be “attacked”] by Breton, Nowell, Pearse and a writt of condemnation ready to pass" 25th September 1662, Letter from Elizabeth Dalyson to Sir GO
Writ of subpoena
Example: "his mat:ies most gratious writt or writts of Subpoena"
TERMS FOR POSSIBLE INCLUSION
Act (actings and proceedings)
Administrator
Bargain & sale (bargained and sold; contract of bargain and sale)
Beneficiary
Canon/Civil law
- Used in church courts and courts of Admiralty
Common law
- Common law not taught at universities until 1828
Common reason (dissonant to common reason)
Converted (converted to own use)
Hereditaments
Interest (interest in land; Said Mother had the legall Interest of & in the said lands & p:rmisses)
Life (lease for three lives)
Possessed (possessed and interested of and in)
Premises (lands and premisses)
Recital (as by the said recital)
Released (estate settled and released)
Rent (rent and profits; Rents issues & proffits)
Residue (of a term of a lease)
Surrender (an interest, a lease)
Value (yearly value; rent at a year)
Tenements
Unnatural