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Definition of Assure To convey or transfer property Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Assure in the Dictionaries, Assure in our legal dictionaries, Related topics, Browse topics from the European Encyclopedia of Law, Browse the Legal Thesaurus, […]

Definition of Astley V. Younge ((1759), 2 Burr. 807). Held, that no action will lie against a defendant in a lawsuit for words only spoken in his own defence, and by way of justification in law, and in a legal and judicial way. Browse You might be interested in these references tools: […]

Definition of Assize A sitting or session of a Court of justice ; later, the enactments of such a CourtAn assize passed in the reign of Henry II provided for the trial of questions of seisin and title to land by a recognition or inquiry of sixteen men sworn to speak the truth, called the…

Definition of Assize Of Darrein Presentment (Last presentation.) A real action which lay where a man (or his ancestor under whom he claimed) had presented a clerk to a benefice, who was instituted, and afterwards, upon the next avoidance, a stranger presented a clerk, and thereby disturbed the […]

Definition of Assize Of Mort D’Ancestor A real action which lay to recover land of which a person had been deprived on the death of his ancestor by the abatement or intrusion of a stranger Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Assize Of Mort D’Ancestor […]

Definition of Assize Of Novel Disseisin A real action which lay to recover land of which a person had been recently disseised Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Assize Of Novel Disseisin in the Dictionaries, Assize Of Novel Disseisin in our legal […]

Definition of Assize, Petty The assizes of darrein presentment, mort d’ancestor, novel disseisin, and utrum. Abolished by the Real Property Limitation Act, 1833 Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Assize, Petty in the Dictionaries, Assize, Petty in […]

Definition of Assize Rents Fixed and certain rents Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Assize Rents in the Dictionaries, Assize Rents in our legal dictionaries, Related topics, Browse topics from the European Encyclopedia of Law, Browse the Legal […]

Definition of Assize Utrum A real action for trying the question whether land was a lay fee or held in frankalmoign Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Assize Utrum in the Dictionaries, Assize Utrum in our legal dictionaries, Related topics, Browse […]

Definition of Associates Officers of the common law Courts, who were appointed by and held office at the pleasure of the Chief Justice or Chief Baron of each Court, and whose duties were to keep the records of the Court, to attend Nisi Prius sittings, make out the list of cases, conduct the […]