A philologicall commentary, or, An illustration of the most obvious and useful words in the lavv with their distinctions and divers acceptations, as they are found as well in reports antient and modern as in records and memorials never printed : usefull for all young students of the law / by Edward Leigh ...
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A philologicall commentary, or, An illustration of the most obvious and useful words in the lavv with their distinctions and divers acceptations, as they are found as well in reports antient and modern as in records and memorials never printed : usefull for all young students of the law / by Edward Leigh ...
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Leigh, Edward, 1602-1671.
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London :: Printed by A.M. for Charles Adams, and are to be sold at his shop ...,
1658.
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"A philologicall commentary, or, An illustration of the most obvious and useful words in the lavv with their distinctions and divers acceptations, as they are found as well in reports antient and modern as in records and memorials never printed : usefull for all young students of the law / by Edward Leigh ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A50063.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 15, 2024.
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CONSUETUDO.
This word Consuetudo, hath in Law divers sig∣nifications.* 1.1
1. It is taken for the Common Law, as cons••etudo Angliae.
2. For Statute Law, as contra consuetudinem com∣muni concilio regni edit.
3. For particular customs, as Gavel kind, Borough, English, and the like.
4. For Rents, Services, due to the Lord, as consu∣etudines & servitia.
5. For Customes, Tributes, or Impositions, as de novis consuetudinibus levatis in regno, sive in terra sive in aqua.
6. Subsidies, or Customes granted by common consent, that is, by authority of Parliament, pro bono publico, these be, Antiquae & rectae consueta∣dines.