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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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 16, 2024.
1. The Tenant when he doth his homage is dis••inctus, disarmed, because he must never be armed against his Lord.
2. Nudo capite, bare headed.
3. Ad pe•••••• Domini super genua projectus.
4. Amb••s ma••us junctas, inter manus Domi∣ni porrigit, which betokeneth reverence and subjection.
5. Per verba omni supplici veneratione ple∣na, he saith, I become your man.
2. On part of the Lord for three causes.
1. The Lord doth sit.
2. He uncloseth his Tenants hands between his own, which betokeneth protection, and defence.
3. The Lord sitting kisseth the Tenant. Cook on Lit. lib. 2. cap. 1. sect. 85.
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Glanvill saith women shall not do homage, but* 1.2Littleton saith, that a woman shall do homage, but shall not say, I become your woman, but I do to you homage, and so is Glanvill to be understood, she shall not do compleat ho∣mage.
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* 1.1
Homage, is derived of homo, and is called homage, because when he doth this service, he saith, I become your man, and in English homage is called man-hood; as the man-hood of his Tenant, and the homage of his Tenant is all one. Cook on Little∣〈…〉〈…〉n ibidem.