damage feasant — Doing damage; the damage caused by trespassing animals. See distress damage feasant … Ballentine's law dictionary
distress — The act of distraining the goods or cattle of another; the taking of possession of a personal chattel out of the possession of a wrongdoer into that of the party injured, to procure satisfaction for the wrong done. 3 Bl Comm 6. The common law… … Ballentine's law dictionary
Anthony Fitzherbert — Infobox Person name = Anthony Fitzherbert image size = caption = brass monument in chancel floor of Norbury chrch to Anthony Fitzherbert and his wife birth name = birth date = 1470 birth place = Norbury death date =27 May, 1538 death place =… … Wikipedia
Glanville Williams — Glanville Llewelyn Williams QC, LL.D., F.B.A. (15 February 1911 ndash; 10 April 1997) was an influential Welsh legal professor and formerly the Rouse Ball Professor of English Law at the University of Cambridge. Throughout his lifetime he also… … Wikipedia
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rescue — Act of saving or freeing. At common law, forcibly and knowingly freeing another from arrest, imprisonment or legal custody without any effort by prisoner to free himself. Merrill v. State, 42 Ariz. 341, 26 P.2d 110. The unlawfully or forcibly… … Black's law dictionary
namium — A taking; a distress of an owner s goods or cattle, either damage feasant, or by way of security for unpaid rent, overdue. See 3 Bl Comm 148 … Ballentine's law dictionary