A castrated ram, at least one year old in ark indictment it may be called a sheep. … [Read more...]
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WESTMINSTER THE THIRD, STATUTE OF
A statute passed in the eighteenth year of Edward I. More commonly known as the "Statute of Quia Emptores" . See Barring, Ob St 167-169. … [Read more...]
WESTMINSTER THE SECOND
The statute 13 Edw. I. St 1, A. D. 1285, otherwise called the "Statute de Bonis Condition alious." See 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, c. 10, p. 163. Certain parts of this act are repealed by St 19 & 20 Vict c. 64, and St. 26 A 27 Vict c. 125. Wharton. … [Read more...]
WESTMINSTER THE FIRST
The statute 3 Edw. I.,, A. D. 1275. This statute which deserves the name of a code rather than an act, is divided into fifty-one .chapters. Without extending the exemption of churchmen from civil jurisdiction, it potects the property of the church from the violence and spoliation of the king and the nobles, provides for freedom of popular elections, because sheriffs, coroners, … [Read more...]
WESTMINSTER CONFESSION
A document containing a statement of religious doctrine, concocted at a conference of British and continental Protestant divines at Westminster, in the year 1443, which subsequently became the basis of the Scotch Presbyterian Church. Wharton. … [Read more...]