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1. † actitation, n. View full entry 1661
...Law. The action or an act of debating a cause....
2. † aˈssartment, n. View full entry 1670
...= assart...
3. † causidic, n. View full entry 1656
...‘A lawyer, atturney, aduocate, or procter’ (Cockeram 1623)....
4. † cert-money, n. View full entry 1670
...A common fine, paid yearly by the residents and tenants of a manor to the lord or the hundred, pro certo Letæ, for the certain keeping of the Leet....
5. † codice, n. View full entry 1656
...= code...
6. consueˈtudinal, adj. and n. View full entry 1656
...Pertaining to custom, of use and wont. spec. in Philol., esp. as the epithet of a particular mood in Celtic languages....
7. conˈvalidate, v. View full entry 1656
...To strengthen, to confirm; to ratify or render legal, to put into legal effect....
8. dation, n. View full entry 1656
...An act of giving; a gift. Obs.rare....
9. de son tort, phr. View full entry 1670
...By his own wrongdoing, without authorization; spec. in phrases, e.g. executor de son tort (see executor3b), de son tort demesne (see quot. ...
10. dicaeology, n. View full entry 1656
...A description or account of jurisdiction. Obs....
11. eparch, n. View full entry 1656
...Hist. Used as equivalent to the Latin præfectus prefect....
12. fair-pleader | fair-pleading, n. View full entry 1670
...= beaupleader...
13. Falcidian, adj. View full entry 1656
...In Falcidian law (Lex Falcidia), a law carried by P. Falcidius, which ordained that no Roman citizen should bequeath more than three-fourths of his estate away from his...
14. farleu, n. View full entry 1670
...(See quot. 1670.)...
15. freeboard, n. View full entry 1670
...Law. Also in form freebord. The right claimed by the owner of a park or forest to a belt of land lying immediately outside its boundary; the land thus...
16. homologation, n. View full entry 1656
...The action of homologating; assent, ratification, confirmation. Mostly in legal use; spec. in Sc. Law (see homologate1b)....
17. hypothecary, adj. View full entry 1656
...Of, pertaining to, of the nature of, an hypothec or mortgage....
18. indictive, adj. View full entry 1656
...Proclaimed or appointed by authority. Obs....
19. innoˈtescimus, n. View full entry 1670
...(See quot. 1670.)...
20. † ˈjusticement, n. View full entry 1670
...Administration of justice....
