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A district which includes all parts of Devon and Cornwall where some tin work is situate and in actual operation. The tin miners of the stannaries have certain peculiar customs and privileges. Stannary courts. Courts in Devonshire and Cornwall for the administration of justice among the miners and tinners. These courts were held before the lord warden and his deputies by virtue … [Read more...] about STANNARIES

Using the latest technical and scientific knowledge. … [Read more...] about STATE OF THE ART

intern. law. The right of staple as exercised by a people upon foreign merchants, is defined to be, that they may not allow them to set their merchandises and wares to sale but in a certain place. 2. This practice is not in use in the United States. Law Dictionary - Alternative Legal Definition In English law. A mart or market. A place where the buying and selling of wool, … [Read more...] about STAPLE

A narrative of the facts upon which the plaintiff relies substituted for a more formal declaration in suits in the inferior courts. The phrase is used in New Jersey. … [Read more...] about STATE OF THE CASE

Eng. law. A court which formerly had great jurisdiction and power, but which was abolished by stat. 16, C. I., c. 10, on account of its usurpations and great unpopularity. It consisted of several of the lords spiritual and temporal, being privy counselors, together with two judges of the courts of common law, without the intervention of a jury. Their legal jurisdiction extended … [Read more...] about STAR CHAMBER