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Latin: Masters. The chief clerks in chancery were formerly so called, because they had the direction of making out remedial writs. 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, 251. … [Read more...] about PRAECEPTORES

civil law. By this is understood all heritages which are not destined for the use of man's habitation; such, for example, as lands, meadows, orchards, gardens, woods, even though they should be within the boundaries of a city. … [Read more...] about PRAEDIUM RUSTICUM

In feudal law. A kind of benefices, so called because they were possessed by the more eminent templars, whom the chief master by his authority created and called "Pr&ceptores Templi," … [Read more...] about PRAECEPTORIES

Civil law. The name of an estate which suffers or yields a service to another estate. … [Read more...] about PRAEDIUM SERVIENS

Latin: In practice. An original writ, drawn up in the alternative, commanding the defendant to do the thing required, or show the reason why he had not done it. 3 Bl. Comm. 274. Also an order, written out and signed, addressed to the clerk of a court and requesting him to issue a particular writ Praecipe In capite. When one of the king's immediate tenants in capite was … [Read more...] about PRAECIPE