Belg. In European law. Contribution for jettison; average. … [Read more...]

The laws of the West Saxons, which obtained in the counties to the south and west of England, from Kent to Devonshire. Blackstone supposes these to have been much the same with the laws of Alfred, being the municipal law of the far most considerable part of his dominions, and particularly including Berkshire, the seat of his peculiar residence. 1 BL Comm. 65. … [Read more...]

A city immediately adjoining London, and forming a part of the metropolis; formerly the seat of the superior courts of the kingdom. … [Read more...]

A document containing a statement of religious doctrine, concocted at a conference of British and continental Protestant divines at Westminster, in the year 1443, which subsequently became the basis of the Scotch Presbyterian Church. Wharton. … [Read more...]

The statute 3 Edw. I.,, A. D. 1275. This statute which deserves the name of a code rather than an act, is divided into fifty-one .chapters. Without extending the exemption of churchmen from civil jurisdiction, it potects the property of the church from the violence and spoliation of the king and the nobles, provides for freedom of popular elections, because sheriffs, coroners, … [Read more...]