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The first fruits (primitiae or annates) were the flrst year's profits of all the spiritual preferments in the kingdom, according to a rate made by Walter, bishop of Norwich, in the time of Pope Innocent II., and afterwards advanced in value in the time of Pope Nicholas IV. This last valuation was begun A. D. 1288, and finished 1292, and is still preserved in the exchequer. The … [Read more...] about POPE NICHOLAS’ TAXATION

In English practice. An original writ formerly used for the purpose of removing suits from the court baron or county court into the superior courts of common law. It was also the proper writ to remove all suits which were before the sheriff by writ of justices. But this writ is now in disuse, the writ of certiorari being the ordinary process by which at the present day a cause … [Read more...] about PONE

The religion of the Roman Catholic Church, comprehending doctrines and practices. … [Read more...] about POPERY

The process of the law of Scotland which answers to the distress of the English law. Poinding is of three kinds: Real poinding or poinding of the ground. This is the action by which a creditor, having a security on the land of his debtor, is enabled to appropriate the rents of the land, and the goods of the debtor or his tenants found thereon, to the satisfaction of the debt … [Read more...] about POINDING

contracts. An instrument in writing by which the contract of insurance is effected and reduced into form. 2. The term policy of insurance, or assurance, as it is sometimes called, is derived from the Italian di olizza di assecurazione, or di securanza, or securta; and in that language signifies a tote or bill of security or indemnity. 3. The policy is always considered as being … [Read more...] about POLICY OF INSURANCE