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An inclosure. Anything done to the nuisance or hurt of the public demesnes, or the highways, etc., by inclosure or building, endeavoring to make that private which ought to be public. The difference between a pourpresture and a public nuisance is that pourpresture is an invasion of the jus privatum of the crown; but where the jus publicum is violated it is a nuisance. Skene … [Read more...] about POURPRESTURE

An act of parliament, made in Ireland, (10 Hen. VII. c. 22, A. D. 1495;) so called because Sir Edward Poynings was lieutenant there when it was made, whereby all general statutes before then made In England were declared of force in Ireland, which, before that time, they were hot 1 Broom & H. Comm. 112. … [Read more...] about POYNINGS’ ACT

The king's messenger; a royal or state messenger. In the heralds college, a functionary of lower rank than a herald, but discharging similar duties, called also "poursuivant at arms." … [Read more...] about POURSUIVANT

(Poyning's Law) Engl. law. The name usually given to an act which was passed by a parliament holden in Ireland in the tenth of Henry the Seventh; it enacts that all statutes made in the realm of England before that time should be in force and put in use in the realm of Ireland. … [Read more...] about POYNINGS LAW