Les termes de la ley; or, Certain difficult and obscure words and terms of the common laws and statutes of this realm now in use, expounded and explained Now corrected and enlarged. With very great additions throughout the whole book, never printed in any other impression.
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Les termes de la ley; or, Certain difficult and obscure words and terms of the common laws and statutes of this realm now in use, expounded and explained Now corrected and enlarged. With very great additions throughout the whole book, never printed in any other impression.
Author
Rastell, John, d. 1536.
Publication
London :: printed by W. Rawlins, S. Roycroft and M. Flesher, assigns of Richard and Edward Atkins Esquires. For G. Walbanke, S. Heyrick, J. Place, J. Poole, and R. Sare,
1685.
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Law -- Dictionaries -- Early works to 1800.
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"Les termes de la ley; or, Certain difficult and obscure words and terms of the common laws and statutes of this realm now in use, expounded and explained Now corrected and enlarged. With very great additions throughout the whole book, never printed in any other impression." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A58086.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 16, 2024.
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Free Almes.
FRee Almes is, where in anci∣ent
times Lands were given
to an Abbot and his Covent, or
to a Dean and his Chapter,
and to their Successors, in pure
and perpetual Almes, without
expressing any Service certain;
this is Frank-almoigne; and
such are bound before God to
make Oraisons and Prayers
for the Donor and his Heirs,
and therefore they do no Feal∣ty;
and if such as have Lands
in Frank-almoigne perform no
Prayers nor Divine Service
for the Souls of the Donors,
they shall not be compelled by
the Donors to do it, but the Do∣nors
may complain to the Or∣dinary,
praying him that such
negligence be no more, and the
Ordinary of right ought to re∣dress
it.
But if an Abbot, &c. holds
Lands of his Lord for certain
Divine Service to be done,
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as to sing every Friday a
Mass, or do some other thing;
if such Divine Service be
not done, the Lord may di∣strain,
and in such case the Ab∣bot
ought to do Fealty to the
Lord: and therefore it is not
said Tenure in Frank-almoign,
but Tenure by Divine-Service;
for none can hold by Frank-al∣moign,
if any certain Service
be expressed.
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