canon law. This is the name given to the constitutions of the popes posterior to the Clementines; they are thus called quasi vagantes extra corpus juris, to express that they were out of the canonical law, which at first contained only the decrees of Gratian; afterwards the decretals of Gregory IX., the sexte of Boniface. VIII., the Clementines, and at last the extravagantes … [Read more...]

contracts. The destruction of a right or contract the act by which a contract is made void. 2. Art extinguishment may be by matter of fact and by matter of law. 1. It is by matter of fact either express, as when one receives satisfaction and full payment of a debt, and the creditor releases the debtor 11 John. 513'; or implied, as when a person hath a yearly rent out of, lands … [Read more...]

In English law. A species of destruction or waste, analogous to estrepement See ESTREPEMENT. … [Read more...]

A judicial writ, either before or after judgment, that lay against a person who, when a verdict waa found against him for land, etc., maliciously overthrew any house or extirpated any trees upon it. Reg. Jud. I3, 56. … [Read more...]

In old records. To grub woodland, and reduce it to arable or meadow; "to stock up." Cowell. … [Read more...]