MRP: 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:
Contents
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:
Confederation
Variant; Confederacon
Example:
Consideration
Variants: Consideracion
Counterpart
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
Estate
Example: "temporal estate"
Indenture
Example: "indentures tripartite"
Interogatory
Example:
Jointure
Variants: Joynture
Example:
Lease
Example:
== Portion =
Variants: Porcion; Marriage portion
Example:
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”
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
POSSIBLE TERMS TO INCLUDE
Act (actings and proceedings)
Administrator
Bargain & sale (bargained and sold; contract of bargain and sale)
Beneficiary
Common reason (dissonant to common reason)
Hereditaments
Interest (interest in land)
Life (lease for three lives)
Possessed (possessed and interested of and in)
Premises (lands and premisses)
Released (estate settled and released)
Rent (rent and profits)
Residue (of a term of a lease)
Surrender (an interest, a lease)
Value (yearly value; rent at a year)
Tenements
Unnatural
