My Little Medieval List of Common Law Words

Josef K Media
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  • abjuration of realm oath

  • abjuration of the realm

  • abjuration port assignment

  • adjudication (Scots feudal diligence sense)

  • advowson (feudal patronage sense)

  • advowson (feudal sense)

  • advowson appendant (feudal church right)

  • advowson collative (feudal patronage)

  • advowson donative (feudal patronage)

  • advowson in gross (separate patronage right)

  • advowson lapse (six month rule medieval)

  • advowson presentative (feudal patronage)

  • affray (medieval breach of peace sense)

  • aftergrass right

  • agister forest officer

  • agistment (forest grazing tax sense)

  • agistment forest right

  • agistor (forest officer)

  • aid (feudal tax)

  • aid prayer (feudal pleading)

  • aid pur faire fitz chevalier

  • aid pur fille marier

  • aleconner

  • aleconner tasting

  • alienation in mortmain (forbidden transfer)

  • allodium (continental feudal sense)

  • althing (Norse assembly)

  • althing assembly

  • amercement (feudal discretionary fine sense)

  • amortization (transfer to church)

  • anchorage (harbor duty)

  • ancient demesne

  • ancient demesne privilege

  • ancient demesne tenure

  • ancient rent (feudal quit rent sense)

  • annuity writ medieval

  • appeal of arson private

  • appeal of burglary (private prosecution)

  • appeal of death (private prosecution)

  • appeal of felony private

  • appeal of larceny private

  • appeal of mayhem private

  • appeal of rape private

  • appeal of robbery private

  • approvement (lord enclosure right)

  • approvement confession appeal

  • approvement in felony (confessor accusation)

  • approver (medieval criminal procedure)

  • arriere-ban (feudal levy)

  • assart (forest clearing offense)

  • assart fine

  • assart without license

  • assarting (forest offense)

  • assize of ale

  • assize of arms (militia levy medieval)

  • assize of bread and ale

  • assize of bread enforcement

  • assize of clarendon procedure

  • assize of cloth

  • assize of darrein presentment

  • assize of mort d’ancestor

  • assize of northampton procedure

  • assize of novel disseisin

  • assize utrum church land

  • attachment of forest court

  • attachment of the forest

  • attainder (blood corruption sense)

  • attainder by battle

  • attainder upon confession

  • attainder upon outlawry

  • attainder upon verdict

  • attaint (jury punishment)

  • attaint jury (jury of twenty-four)

  • attaint jury twenty-four

  • attorn (feudal allegiance shift)

  • attornment (feudal tenant consent sense)

  • audita querela original writ

  • averia (feudal beasts of burden tax)

  • averpenny (beast levy)

  • avowry (justification of distress)

  • backberend

  • bailment by mainpast

  • balk (ridge boundary)

  • banal mill right

  • banal oven right

  • banal winepress right

  • banlieue (lord’s jurisdiction zone)

  • barony by tenure

  • barratry (medieval sense)

  • base fee (feudal sense)

  • battle gage thrown

  • beadle (manorial officer)

  • beadle’s cry

  • bedel (beadle variant)

  • benefice (feudal grant sense)

  • beneficium (feudal grant)

  • beneficium grant frankish

  • benefit of clergy

  • benefit of clergy (original clerical immunity)

  • benefit of clergy reading test

  • bill of attainder (medieval legislative punishment sense)

  • bill of peace (equity device)

  • bill of peace equity

  • bill quia timet (equity medieval form)

  • bill quia timet equity

  • blasphemous libel (crown offense sense)

  • blodwite

  • blodwite franchise

  • blood corruption absolute

  • blood feud composition

  • bloodwit fine franchise

  • bloodwit franchise

  • bocland charter

  • bondager (border tenant)

  • bookland (Anglo-Saxon land)

  • bordar (small tenant)

  • bordar tenant

  • borgholder duty

  • borh (surety pledge)

  • borh pledge group

  • borough english (inheritance custom)

  • borsholder

  • bot and wite

  • bot payment

  • botless crime

  • bovate

  • branding iron punishment

  • brieve (Scots writ)

  • brieve scots writ

  • burgage tenure (feudal sense)

  • butlerage (wine duty)

  • bót

  • capias ad respondendum

  • capias ad respondendum arrest writ

  • capias ad satisfaciendum

  • capias ad satisfaciendum body execution

  • capias utlagatum execution

  • capias utlagatum writ

  • capitulary (Frankish royal decree)

  • capitulary decree frankish

  • cart’s tail whipping

  • carucage (medieval levy sense)

  • carucate

  • certiorari to remove record (medieval king’s bench sense)

  • cessavit rent default writ

  • cestui que use (pre-statute sense)

  • champertous maintenance (medieval sense)

  • champerty (medieval maintenance form)

  • chevage

  • chevauchée (feudal levy)

  • childwite

  • churchscot

  • civil death by attainder

  • civiliter mortuus (civil death)

  • clergyable felony

  • clergyable offense privilege

  • clerical tonsure immunity

  • clerk of the market (market regulation officer)

  • cognizance (lord’s claim of jurisdiction)

  • color of title (medieval pleading fiction)

  • color pleading fiction

  • commendatio (vassal pledge)

  • commendatio vassal pledge

  • commendation (feudal protection pledge)

  • commission of array (militia levy)

  • commission of array militia

  • commission of gaol delivery

  • commission of oyer and terminer

  • commission of sewers (drainage authority medieval)

  • commission of sewers drainage

  • commission of the peace (original crown form)

  • common appendant (feudal pasture)

  • common appurtenant (feudal pasture)

  • common because of vicinage (feudal pasture)

  • common of estovers (feudal sense)

  • common of piscary (feudal sense)

  • common of shack (pasture rotation right)

  • common of turbary (feudal sense)

  • common recovery (fee tail bar fiction)

  • compotation (alehouse offense)

  • compotation offense

  • compotus (manorial account)

  • compurgation

  • compurgation oath

  • compurgation oath twelve hands

  • compurgation twelve oathmen

  • compurgator neighbor oath

  • compurgator oath helper

  • compurgator twelve hands

  • conspiracy writ medieval

  • consultation writ

  • consultation writ (chancery to church)

  • copyhold

  • copyhold for lives

  • copyhold of inheritance

  • copyholder

  • coram nobis king’s bench form

  • coram vobis common pleas form

  • corody (monastic maintenance right)

  • corody grant

  • coroner’s inquest (medieval form)

  • coroner’s inquest medieval form

  • corrody assignment

  • corrody writ

  • corruption of blood

  • corruption of blood absolute

  • corruption of blood inheritance bar

  • corsned trial

  • corvee

  • corvee labor

  • cotter (small tenant)

  • cotter tenant

  • counterplea (medieval pleading)

  • court baron

  • court baron homage

  • court customary

  • court leet

  • court of ancient demesne

  • court of chivalry (medieval jurisdiction sense)

  • court of piepowder merchant

  • court of requests (Tudor equity sense)

  • court of staple merchant

  • court of wards and liveries

  • cranage (crane fee)

  • crown ward

  • cucking stool

  • cucking stool punishment

  • customary estate pur autre vie (manorial sense)

  • customary freehold

  • custumal (manorial custom record)

  • danegeld (Anglo-Saxon levy sense)

  • danegeld assessment

  • darrein presentment (writ)

  • darrein presentment assize

  • darrein presentment plea

  • de homine capiendo (writ)

  • de homine replegiando (original writ)

  • de homine replegiando writ

  • deceit writ medieval

  • decennary

  • decree absolute (chancery medieval form)

  • decree absolute chancery

  • decree nisi (chancery medieval form)

  • decree nisi chancery

  • demesne as of fee (feudal sense)

  • demesne as of manor

  • demesne lands (feudal holding sense)

  • deodand

  • deodand forfeiture

  • deodand forfeiture object

  • diem clausit extremum (death inquest writ)

  • diem clausit extremum writ

  • dilatory plea (medieval category)

  • disseisin (medieval sense)

  • disseisor ab initio (medieval pleading sense)

  • distress damage feasant (feudal enforcement)

  • distress infinite (feudal enforcement sense)

  • distress pernodant (pending plea distress)

  • domesday survey tenure

  • dower unde nihil habet (writ)

  • driftway (customary cattle path)

  • ducking stool (punishment device)

  • ducking stool punishment

  • ealdorman

  • ecclesiastical censure

  • elegit (writ)

  • elegit land execution

  • embracery (jury corruption medieval sense)

  • enfeoff

  • englishry presentment

  • englishry proof

  • englishry proof oath

  • entry sur disseisin in the per

  • entry sur disseisin in the per and cui

  • entry sur disseisin per and cui

  • escheat (feudal incident sense)

  • escheat of fee simple (feudal sense)

  • essoin

  • essoin (medieval excuse)

  • estate tail

  • estover appendant

  • estover appurtenant

  • estovers (feudal right sense)

  • estovers firebote

  • estovers haybote

  • estovers housebote

  • estovers ploughbote

  • estray (royal forfeiture sense)

  • estray proclamation year and day

  • estray year and day

  • estreat roll

  • estrepement (writ)

  • estrepement bond (medieval practice)

  • excommunication writ de excommunicato capiendo

  • exigent de excommunicato capiendo

  • exigent five county calls

  • exigent proclamation

  • exigent proclamation five counties

  • exile abjuration life

  • exile abjuration oath

  • exile for life medieval

  • extent (manorial survey)

  • extent upon statute merchant

  • extent upon statute merchant (medieval debt enforcement)

  • eyre circuit session

  • eyre iter session

  • eyre of justices in itinere

  • fealty (feudal oath sense)

  • fealty simple

  • fee farm grant

  • fee simple conditional (pre-De Donis form)

  • fee tail female (as active estate)

  • fee tail general

  • fee tail male (as active estate)

  • fee tail special

  • feefarm rent (medieval tenure sense)

  • feigned issue (equity trial device)

  • feigned issue equity

  • feodary (wardship officer)

  • feoffee (ceremonial grantee)

  • feoffee to uses (pre-Statute of Uses sense)

  • feoffment (ceremonial grant sense)

  • feoffment with livery

  • feoffor (ceremonial grantor)

  • feu charter (Scots feudal grant)

  • feu charter scots

  • feu duty (Scots feudal rent)

  • feu duty scots

  • fidelitas (vassal oath)

  • fidelitas oath

  • fieri facias (original writ form)

  • fieri facias original levy

  • fine with proclamations (conveyance fiction)

  • firebote (estovers variants)

  • foldage (folding sheep right)

  • foldcourse

  • folkland (Anglo-Saxon land)

  • folkmoot

  • folkmoot assembly

  • forest eyre

  • forest eyre presentment

  • forest eyre roll

  • forest law vert and venison

  • forest venison offense

  • forest vert offense

  • foresteal

  • foresteall

  • forester in fee

  • forester in fee tenure

  • forfeiture for felony (medieval sense)

  • forfeiture for treason medieval

  • forfeiture of chattels crown

  • forfeiture of chattels to crown

  • forfeiture of lands crown

  • forfeiture of lands to crown

  • forfeiture to the crown (treason sense)

  • formedon in descender

  • formedon in remainder

  • formedon in reverter

  • franchise return of writs

  • frank law (Anglo-Saxon privilege)

  • frank marriage (maritagium)

  • frankalmoign

  • frankpledge

  • frankpledge amerciament

  • frankpledge decenna

  • frankpledge decennary

  • frankpledge decennary system

  • frankpledge pledge

  • frankpledge presentment

  • frankpledge surety group

  • frankpledge surety system

  • frankpledge system

  • frankpledge tithing

  • frankpledge tithing oath

  • frankpledge view oath

  • frankpledge view presentment

  • franktenement

  • free chase (franchise sense)

  • free fishery (franchise sense)

  • free park (franchise sense)

  • freebench

  • frithborh

  • fyrd

  • fyrd duty

  • fyrdung

  • fyrdwite

  • gage and pledge

  • gallows franchise

  • gallows franchise right

  • gaol delivery commission

  • gaol delivery commission medieval

  • gavelkind (as active tenure)

  • geld inquest

  • geld roll assessment

  • geldable

  • gemot

  • gerefa

  • gildhall jurisdiction

  • grand assize

  • grand assize election

  • grand serjeanty

  • grand serjeanty tenure

  • grith

  • grith breach

  • grithbreach

  • habeas corpus ad deliberandum original

  • habeas corpus ad faciendum et recipiendum (medieval variant)

  • habeas corpus ad prosequendum (medieval variant)

  • habeas corpus ad prosequendum original

  • habeas corpus ad satisfaciendum original

  • habeas corpus ad subjiciendum original

  • habeas corpus ad testificandum original

  • habeas corpus cum causa (medieval variant)

  • halimote

  • halimote session

  • hamsocn

  • hamsocne

  • handborh pledge

  • handgeld (earnest payment)

  • handhabend

  • haybote

  • hayward (manorial officer)

  • headland strip

  • herbage (feudal right)

  • herbage right of pasture

  • herebannum

  • heregeld

  • heriot

  • heriot custom

  • heriot service

  • heritable bond (Scots feudal security)

  • hidage (tax assessment)

  • hide of land (Anglo-Saxon measure)

  • hidel

  • high commission court (ecclesiastical prerogative)

  • high treason forfeiture blood

  • high treason forfeiture blood corruption

  • homage (feudal oath sense)

  • homage ancestral

  • homage court

  • homage jury presentment

  • homage liege

  • hominium (act of homage)

  • hominium homage act

  • honey toll (beekeeping right)

  • housebote

  • hue and cry

  • hue and cry levy

  • hue and cry pursuit

  • hue and cry pursuit duty

  • hue and cry township liability

  • hue and cry vill liability

  • hundred court

  • hundred court suitors

  • hundredmoot

  • husting (London court)

  • hustings court session

  • imparlance (pleading delay)

  • imparlance delay

  • imparlance general

  • imparlance special

  • impedit suit

  • impounding in pound covert

  • impounding in pound overt

  • indicavit (tithe jurisdiction)

  • indicavit writ

  • indictment by twelve men medieval form

  • indictment twelve men medieval

  • infangentheof

  • infangthief

  • infangthief franchise

  • infangthief gallows right

  • inhibition (Scots diligence medieval form)

  • inhibition diligence scots

  • injunction chancery writ

  • injunction writ (original chancery form)

  • inquest of office (crown title inquiry)

  • inquest of office crown title

  • intrusion (feudal entry without livery)

  • investiture by rod and staff

  • investiture by turf and twig

  • investiture rod staff

  • investiture turf twig

  • judicium dei (ordeal)

  • jus induendi (installation right)

  • jus instituendi (bishop’s right)

  • jus patronatus (patronage right)

  • jus praesentandi (right to present)

  • justices in eyre circuit

  • justices in eyre commission

  • justices in eyre iteration

  • keelage (river duty)

  • kindly tenant (customary heir)

  • knight service tenure

  • knight’s fee (land measure)

  • knight’s service in capite

  • lagman (Scandinavian law speaker)

  • lagman law speaker

  • lammas lands (seasonal common)

  • lammas right

  • lapse to crown

  • lapse to metropolitan

  • lapse to ordinary (ecclesiastical)

  • lastage (port duty)

  • lastage port duty

  • lathe (shire division)

  • law merchant (medieval custom sense)

  • leet day

  • leet jurisdiction franchise

  • leet jury

  • leet presentment

  • leodgeld

  • leyrwite

  • liber albus (municipal custumal)

  • liberate writ (exchequer payment)

  • liberty franchise

  • liege homage

  • liferent (Scots life estate feudal sense)

  • liferent scots

  • liveries and primer seisins

  • livery in deed (ceremonial delivery)

  • livery in law (constructive ceremony)

  • livery of seisin

  • livery out of chancery (feudal wardship sense)

  • lord paramount (feudal sense)

  • lot casting (common allocation)

  • lot meadow (common allocation)

  • mainpast (surety custody)

  • mainpernor surety

  • mainprise

  • mainprise (medieval bail)

  • mainprize delivery

  • maintenance (medieval litigation offense)

  • mallum (Frankish court)

  • mallum frankish court

  • mallus publicus (Frankish court)

  • mandamus prerogative (crown command)

  • manor court roll

  • manrent (Scots bond)

  • manrent bond scots

  • mark (coinage unit)

  • marriage (feudal right over heir)

  • marriage value (feudal right)

  • mast right (forest feeding)

  • master of wards (feudal office)

  • mayhem (medieval dismemberment sense)

  • merchant court of staple

  • merchant gild court

  • merchet

  • mesnalty (mesne lordship)

  • mesne lord

  • mesne lordship chain

  • mesne writ liability

  • misprision of felony (medieval concealment sense)

  • misprision of treason (medieval concealment sense)

  • missi dominici (royal envoys)

  • missi dominici envoy

  • monstrans de droit petition

  • monstrans de fait

  • moot horn

  • mort d’ancestor (writ)

  • mort d’ancestor assize

  • mort d’ancestor assize in novel form

  • mort d’ancestor in the per

  • mort d’ancestor in the per and cui

  • mortmain (feudal tenure sense)

  • mortmain license (royal consent)

  • mortuary (ecclesiastical due)

  • mortuary customary due

  • mortuary duty

  • multure (milling toll)

  • mund (protection right)

  • mund breach

  • mundbryce

  • mundbyrd

  • murage (town wall tax)

  • murage grant

  • murdrum amerciament

  • murdrum englishry fine

  • murdrum fine

  • murdrum fine levy

  • murdrum presentment

  • murdrum presentment hundred

  • ne exeat regno writ medieval

  • ne recipiatur (pleading bar)

  • neck verse clergy test

  • neck verse privilege

  • neif (female villein)

  • neif female villein

  • nisi prius (original writ form)

  • nisi prius record

  • nisi prius sitting

  • novel disseisin (writ form)

  • novel disseisin assize

  • novel disseisin of common

  • oath helper (compurgator)

  • oath of twelve men (medieval proof)

  • oathhelping neighbor

  • office found

  • office of escheator (medieval sense)

  • ordeal by bread and cheese (corsned)

  • ordeal by cold water

  • ordeal by fire

  • ordeal by fire three steps

  • ordeal by hot iron

  • ordeal by morsel

  • ordeal by water

  • ordeal by water sinking test

  • ordeal morsel (corsned)

  • ousterlemain (livery of lands)

  • outfangthief

  • outfangthief extraterritorial right

  • outfangthief franchise

  • outlawry (civil death sense)

  • outlawry (common law civil death sense)

  • outlawry capias exigent

  • outlawry caput lupinum

  • outlawry exigent call

  • outlawry exigent process

  • outlawry proclamation exigent

  • oyer and terminer (commission sense)

  • oyer and terminer gaol delivery

  • oyer craving hearing

  • pannage (forest right tax)

  • pannage fee

  • partition writ medieval

  • pavage (road tax)

  • pavage grant

  • peine forte et dure

  • peine forte et dure pressing

  • peine forte et dure refusal plea

  • peine forte et dure standing mute

  • peine forte et dure stones

  • peremptory plea (medieval category)

  • pesage (weighing duty)

  • peter’s pence (ecclesiastical levy)

  • petition of right (crown remedy medieval form)

  • petition of right crown

  • petty assize

  • petty assize jury

  • petty serjeanty

  • petty serjeanty tenure

  • petty treason (husband-wife sense)

  • petty treason (medieval form)

  • piccage (market stall right)

  • piccage ground right

  • piepowder court

  • piepowder jurisdiction

  • pillory (medieval punishment sense)

  • pillory punishment medieval

  • pipe roll (exchequer record)

  • pipe roll entry

  • piscary (feudal fishing right sense)

  • piscary several (feudal fishing)

  • plea in abatement ancient form

  • plea in bar ancient form

  • plea puis darrein continuance (medieval form)

  • pledge of faith (fides facta)

  • pledge surety (Anglo-Saxon)

  • ploughbote

  • pontage (bridge toll)

  • pontage grant

  • portreeve

  • postea (trial endorsement)

  • postea endorsement

  • precarium (revocable tenure)

  • precatory tenure

  • presentment jury hundred

  • presentment jury of hundred

  • presentment of Englishry

  • primer fine (feudal payment)

  • primer fine in chivalry

  • primer seisin

  • primer seisin fine

  • primer seisin of heir

  • prisage (wine duty)

  • privileged villein

  • privy seal writ (medieval)

  • procedendo ad judicium (writ)

  • procuration visitation fee

  • procurations (ecclesiastical visitation dues)

  • profert (production pleading)

  • prohibition ecclesiastical (conflict writ)

  • prohibition ecclesiastical writ

  • purlieu (forest boundary)

  • purlieu boundary right

  • purpresture (encroachment on royal land)

  • purpresture amerciament

  • purpresture encroachment

  • purpresture presentment

  • quare impedit (writ original form)

  • quare impedit original

  • quare impedit original action

  • quit rent (feudal tenure sense)

  • quo minus (exchequer writ)

  • rape (Sussex division)

  • ravishment of marriage

  • ravishment of ward

  • ravishment of ward writ

  • ravishment of wife writ medieval

  • rebutter (pleading bar)

  • recognizance before mayor of staple

  • recognizance estreated

  • recognizance in nature of statute staple

  • recognizance of debt before mayor

  • recognizance of peace (medieval surety)

  • recognizance statute staple

  • red book of the exchequer

  • reeve (manorial officer)

  • regard of the forest

  • regardant villein

  • regarders of the forest

  • regarders presentment

  • regrant (crown tenure reset)

  • rejoinder (medieval sense)

  • relief (feudal land payment)

  • relief certain

  • relief in chivalry

  • relief in socage

  • relief of barony

  • relief uncertain

  • rent charge (feudal origin sense)

  • rent seek (feudal sense)

  • rent service (feudal sense)

  • replevin in the cepit (medieval form)

  • replevin in the detinet (medieval form)

  • replevin withernam (counter distress)

  • replication de injuria (medieval form)

  • rescous (rescue of distress)

  • retour of service (Scots heir process)

  • retour of service scots

  • return of writs franchise

  • reverter (feudal conditional fee sense)

  • right of entry (feudal condition broken sense)

  • right of pit and gallows (franchise)

  • royal fish (whale and sturgeon franchise sense)

  • royal fish franchise

  • royal mines (gold and silver franchise)

  • royal mines gold silver right

  • royal swan mark

  • sac and soc

  • sac and soc jurisdiction

  • sake (jurisdiction right)

  • sanctuary (medieval church immunity)

  • sanctuary abjuration

  • sanctuary abjurer oath

  • sanctuary abjurer port

  • sanctuary badge

  • sanctuary badge privilege

  • sanctuary church oath

  • sanctuary forty days bell

  • sanctuary forty days claim

  • sanctuary forty days privilege

  • sanctuary knocker privilege

  • sanctuary man

  • sanctuary man forty-day

  • sanctuary privilege abjuration

  • sasin (Scots feudal seisin)

  • sasine instrument

  • sasine instrument scots

  • scabini (continental court assessors)

  • scabinium (continental bench)

  • scavage (customs duty)

  • scire facias (original writ form)

  • scire facias original writ

  • scirman

  • scot and lot (medieval tax)

  • scotale

  • scutage

  • seditious libel (crown offense sense)

  • seigneurial ban

  • serf (continental villein)

  • serf continental

  • several fishery (feudal sense)

  • shack right (post-harvest grazing)

  • sheriff’s aid

  • sheriff’s aid levy

  • sheriff’s tourn

  • sheriff’s tourn presentment

  • shire moot

  • shiremoot

  • sign manual warrant (medieval)

  • significavit certification

  • significavit writ (ecclesiastical enforcement)

  • soc and sac (jurisdiction franchise)

  • socage (feudal tenure sense)

  • socage in capite

  • socage rent service

  • socage tenure (feudal obligation sense)

  • socman (feudal tenant)

  • soke (jurisdiction franchise)

  • stallage (market fee)

  • stallage fee

  • staple bond

  • staple bond execution

  • staple certificate

  • staple court

  • staple jurisdiction bond

  • staple serjeant

  • staple town franchise

  • staple town jurisdiction

  • star chamber (prerogative court)

  • statute merchant recognizance

  • statute merchant seal

  • statute staple execution

  • statute staple recognizance

  • steelbow (Scots agricultural loan)

  • steelbow loan scots

  • stint (pasture limit)

  • stinting of common

  • stocks punishment

  • stocks punishment medieval

  • stray forfeiture right

  • subinfeudation (feudal layering)

  • subinfeudatory chain

  • subinfeudatory tenant

  • subpoena ad testificandum (chancery medieval form)

  • subpoena chancery original

  • subpoena duces tecum (chancery medieval form)

  • suit and service (feudal attendance)

  • suit of court (feudal attendance duty)

  • suit of mill (thirlage duty)

  • suit real (attendance duty)

  • suit service (attendance duty)

  • suitors of court (feudal obligation)

  • superiority (Scots feudal overlord right)

  • superiority feudal scots

  • supersedeas original (stay writ)

  • surety mainpernor

  • surety of good behavior (medieval form)

  • surety of good behavior bond

  • surety of peace recognizance

  • surety of the peace (medieval form)

  • surjoinder

  • surrebutter

  • swanherd office

  • swanimote court

  • swanimote session

  • synodal due

  • synodals (ecclesiastical dues)

  • tack (Scots lease feudal sense)

  • tack lease scots feudal

  • tallage (feudal tax)

  • tally stick (exchequer accounting)

  • tally stick account

  • team (vouching to warranty franchise)

  • tenant to the praecipe

  • tenure by butler service

  • tenure by butlery

  • tenure by castle guard

  • tenure by chamberlain service

  • tenure by cornage

  • tenure by cornage (border defense)

  • tenure by falconry

  • tenure by falconry service

  • tenure by grand almoner service

  • tenure by grand serjeanty

  • tenure by marshal service

  • tenure by petit serjeanty

  • tenure by scutage substitution

  • tenure by serjeanty of the pantry

  • tenure in burgage (medieval sense)

  • tenure in capite

  • tenure in chief

  • tenure in frankmarriage

  • tenure in villeinage

  • terrier (feudal land survey sense)

  • thegn

  • thing (Norse assembly)

  • thing norse assembly

  • thirlage (mill monopoly)

  • thirlage bond (mill duty)

  • thirlage mill bond

  • thrall (Norse slave)

  • thrall norse

  • tithe agistment (medieval dispute)

  • tithe in kind (medieval enforcement)

  • tithe personal (ecclesiastical medieval sense)

  • tithe predial

  • tithing

  • tithing penny

  • tithingman

  • tithingman oath

  • tol and team

  • tol and team (franchise)

  • tol and team warranty

  • toll (feudal franchise sense)

  • tourn (sheriff’s tourn)

  • tourn day

  • tourn jury

  • tourn leet

  • township amercement

  • township amerciament

  • township frankpledge fine

  • trailbaston commission

  • trailbaston commission disorder suppression

  • traverse of office (crown land challenge)

  • traverse of office crown land

  • treasure trove (crown right medieval sense)

  • treasure trove crown right (medieval)

  • trial by cold water

  • trial by compurgation

  • trial by hot iron

  • trial by ordeal

  • trial by wager of law

  • trinoda necessitas

  • trinoda necessitas burden

  • tron weighing right

  • tronage (weighing fee)

  • tumbrel (punishment device)

  • tumbrel punishment seat

  • turbary (peat right)

  • turbary cutting right

  • turbary right

  • twelve hand oath

  • use upon a use (equitable device pre-statute)

  • utfangenetheof

  • utfangentheof

  • utlagaria declaration

  • utlagaria judgment

  • utlagatus proclamation

  • vassalage (feudal status)

  • venire facias (original writ form)

  • venire facias jury summon

  • verderer (forest officer)

  • verderer oath

  • vert and venison offense

  • view of body (coroner medieval)

  • view of frankpledge

  • vill amercement

  • vill liability fine

  • vill responsibility

  • villein

  • villein in gross

  • villein in gross transferable

  • villein regardant

  • villein socage

  • villein socage tenure

  • villeinage

  • virgate

  • visitation articles (ecclesiastical court)

  • voucher (warranty call)

  • voucher to warranty (recovery procedure)

  • wadset (Scots mortgage tenure)

  • wadset mortgage scots

  • wager of battle

  • wager of battle champion

  • wager of law

  • wager of law compurgator

  • waif (royal forfeiture sense)

  • waif and stray franchise

  • waif forfeiture

  • waif forfeiture right

  • waif stray franchise

  • wapentake

  • ward of the staple

  • wardmote

  • wardmote inquest

  • wardship (feudal guardianship sense)

  • wardship by knight service

  • wardship in chivalry

  • wardship in socage (feudal guardianship sense)

  • warranty collateral (feudal inheritance sense)

  • warranty lineal (feudal inheritance sense)

  • warren free (franchise sense)

  • waste writ medieval

  • wed (Anglo-Saxon pledge)

  • wedset (pledge land)

  • wer

  • were

  • weregild schedule

  • wergild

  • wharfage (medieval toll)

  • witan council

  • wite penalty

  • withernam writ

  • wreck de mer (royal franchise)

  • wreck franchise

  • wreck of sea franchise

  • wreck of the sea (royal franchise sense)

  • writ of annuity (medieval form)

  • writ of audita querela (original medieval relief)

  • writ of capias utlagatum

  • writ of certiorari (original king’s bench form)

  • writ of cessavit (rent default)

  • writ of conspiracy (medieval false appeal)

  • writ of consultation (ecclesiastical conflict)

  • writ of coram nobis (original king’s bench correction)

  • writ of coram vobis (original common pleas correction)

  • writ of deceit (medieval pleading)

  • writ of entry ad terminum qui praeteriit

  • writ of entry sur disseisin

  • writ of formedon (in descender, in remainder, in reverter)

  • writ of habeas corpus ad deliberandum (original form)

  • writ of habeas corpus ad respondendum (original form)

  • writ of habeas corpus ad satisfaciendum (original form)

  • writ of habeas corpus ad subjiciendum (original crown form)

  • writ of habeas corpus ad testificandum (original form)

  • writ of indicavit (tithe dispute)

  • writ of juris utrum

  • writ of mandamus (original prerogative form)

  • writ of mesne (lord liability)

  • writ of monstrans de droit (petition of right variant)

  • writ of ne exeat regno (original form)

  • writ of partition (medieval coheir form)

  • writ of procedendo (original form)

  • writ of prohibition (original ecclesiastical conflict sense)

  • writ of prohibition de excommunicato capiendo

  • writ of quo minus (exchequer fiction)

  • writ of quo warranto (medieval franchise challenge sense)

  • writ of ravishment of ward

  • writ of ravishment of wife (medieval action)

  • writ of right close (original form)

  • writ of right of advowson

  • writ of right patent (original form)

  • writ of supersedeas (medieval form)

  • writ of waste (medieval form)

  • writ of waste in remainder

  • wíte

  • year and a day rule (homicide medieval sense)

  • year and day homicide rule (medieval)

  • absolute rights of individuals

  • action on the case

  • advowson appendant

  • advowson collative

  • advowson donative

  • advowson in gross

  • advowson presentative

  • affeer (to assess amercement)

  • allod / allodial land

  • ancient demesne (additional variants)

  • assize of abatement

  • assize of darrein presentment

  • assize of fresh force

  • assize of novel disseisin

  • assize of nuisance

  • assize of the forest

  • attachment (distraint form)

  • bailiff (franchise/manor officer)

  • barony tenure

  • bastard feudalism

  • benefice (ecclesiastical)

  • benefit of clergy (variants)

  • bookland

  • breve de recto (writ of right)

  • breve de recto patent

  • burgage tenure / burgagium

  • canon law influence

  • capias (general arrest writ)

  • charter of franchise

  • charter of liberties

  • chirograph

  • common law (as royal law)

  • compurgation (variants)

  • conveyance (land transfer)

  • corody (additional forms)

  • court of common pleas

  • curtesy (widower’s tenancy)

  • de cursu writs

  • de dote admensura writ

  • de effendo quietum de tolonio

  • de exoneranda pro rata portionis

  • de homine replegiando (variants)

  • de ingressu writ

  • de lunatico inquirendo

  • dedimus potestatem

  • distraint / distress (variants)

  • ejectment (early form)

  • enfeoffment

  • feoh / fioh (payment)

  • ficht-wite (homicide fine)

  • folkland

  • fosterlean

  • frank marriage (maritagium)

  • gavelkind (partible inheritance)

  • grand assize (jury)

  • hawgable / landgable (burgage rent)

  • incorporeal hereditaments

  • indenture

  • knight’s fee (measure)

  • laenland

  • living (ecclesiastical benefice)

  • military tenure

  • monstrans de droit

  • mort d’ancestor (variants)

  • mortancestry (Scots equivalent)

  • nativi (unfree born)

  • ne vexes writ

  • novel disseisin (variants)

  • ordinance / proclamation

  • ostensurus quare (trespass family)

  • palatinate

  • parage (partible tenure)

  • pone (removal writ)

  • praecipe quod reddat

  • primogeniture

  • quare non admisit

  • recognition (jury verdict)

  • register brevium / registrum brevium

  • replevin (variants)

  • scot and lot

  • selion (strip in open field)

  • serf (variants)

  • shire-moot

  • socage tenure (variants)

  • statute law vs common law

  • subinfeudation (variants)

  • tenant in chief

  • tenure by barony

  • tithes (predial/personal)

  • trespass vi et armis

  • utrum assize

  • visne (venue)

  • writ de recto close

  • writ of attaint

  • writ of covenant

  • writ of debt

  • writ of detinue

  • writ of entry

  • writ of error

  • writ of mesne

  • writ of novel disseisin

  • writ of partition

  • writ of praecipe

  • writ of prohibition

  • writ of right close

  • writ of right patent

  • writ of trespass

  • writs de cursu

  • writs of formedon

The End of Credit Cards for Small Merchants?