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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
authority_n	bishop_n	king_n	year_n	2,398	5	4.9162	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68633	An exposition of certaine difficult and obscure words, and termes of the lawes of this realme, newly set foorth and augmented, both in french and English, for the helpe of such younge students as are desirous to attaine the knowledge of ye same. Whereunto are also added the olde Tenures; Expositiones terminorum legum Anglorum. English and Law French	Rastell, John, d. 1536.; Rastell, William, 1508?-1565.	1579 (1579)	STC 20706.5; ESTC S115758	196,680	894

holdeth ouer of y ● lorde aboue him As if y ● tenāt hold of y ● mesne by homage fealty xx s. of rēt yerely y e mesne holdeth ouer of y e lord aboue by homage fealty xx s. rent also this is called owelty of seruices Hearing of Recordes and deedes c. HEaringe of Records déeds is if for example an actiō of det be brought against a man vppon an obligation and the defendant appéeres to the action and then praieth y t he may heare the obligatiō where with the plaintife chargeth him Soe it is when as executors bringe an action ofdet and the defendant demaundeth to heare the testament vpon this demaund it shal be read vnto the desendaunt But if it be in an other ●erme or after y ● the defendant hath imparled then hée shal not heare it And soe as is sayed of déedes is to be vnderstoode of recordes that are alleged against him Pape PApe is an auncyent name falsely arrogated or proudly vsurped by y e Bishop of the only Citye of Roome in Italie and is commonlye englished the Pope a name truely much frequented in our auncyent yere bookes specially in the times of those kings who to much abādoning their emperiall aucthoritie and abasinge themselues far beneath their estate were not a shamed to suffer an alyen outlandish Bishop that dwelt aboue fiftéene hūdred miles from them to bee soueraigne ouer them in their owne dominions and to take frō them not onely the disposition of certen small trisles of none accompt but also the nomination of Archbishoppes Bishops Abbots Deanes prouosts appropriations of benefices presēta● ' to personages vicarages generally of al spirituall persons to their preferments sometymes by lapse and sometimes otherwise whereby the kings princely prerogatiue was very much abridged w tin their owne Realmes Partition PArtityon is à deuyding of lāds discēded by the cōmon law or by custome amōg coheires or parceners wher there be ii at y ● least whether they bée sonnes daughters sisters aūtes or otherwyse of hyn to the auncestour from whom the lād discended to thē And this particion is made iiij wayes for the most part wherof thrée are at pleasure and by agreement among them the fourth is by compulsion One particyon by agréement is when they them selues deuide the lande equally into so many partes as there bée of them coparceners each to choose one share or part the eldest first so y ● one after other as they bée of age except y ● the eldest by consent make the particion then the choise belongeth to y ● next and soe to the eldest last accordynge as it is saied Whoe so maketh the partition the other must haue the choyse An other partition by agreement is whē they choose certen of their frends to make diuision for them The third partition by agréement is by drawing of lots thus first to deuide the land into so many parts as there bée parceners then to writ euery part seuerally in a little scrolle or peece of paper or parchment and to put the same scrolles vp close into a hat cap or other such like thing and then each parcener one after an other as they bée of age to drawe out thereof one peece or scrolle wherein is written a part of the land whych by thys drawinge is nowe seuerally allotted vnto them in fée simple The fowerth partition which is by compulsion is when one or some of the coparceners would haue partition and other some wil not agrée there to Thē they y ● so would haue partitiō may bring a writ de partitione facicienda against y ● others that would not make partition by vertue whereof they shalbée compelled to depart c. Wée in Kent Brother Nicholas where the landes are of Gauelkynd nature cal at this day our partition Shiftinge euen y ● very same woord that the Saxons vsed namely Scystan which signifieth to make partitiō betweene coheires and to assigne to each of them their portion in latyn it is called Herciscere Parties PArties to a fine or déede are those that leuie the same fine and also they to whom the fine is leuied And they that make a déede of feoffement and they to whō it is made are called parties to the déede and so in any other like cases Patron PAtron is hée that hath a parsonage vicarage frée chappel or such like spiritual promotion béelongynge to his maner and may or ought to gyue the same beneūce when and as often as it falleth voyd And thys beynge patron or patronage had beginninge for the most part by one of these three wayes namely either by reason of the foundation for that the patron or hys auncestours or those frō whom he claimes were sounders o● builders of the Church or by reason of Dotation for y ● they did endowe or giue iāds to the same for mayntenaunce thereof or els by reason of the ground because the Church was set or builded vpon their soyle or ground many times by reason of them al three Perquisites PErquisites are aduātages and profits that cōe to a manner by casualtie and not yearely as Escheates Heriots Reliefes waifes straies forfaytures amercementes in Courtes wardes mariages goods and landes purchased by villaines of y e same manor and diuers such like thinges that are not certen but happē by chāce sometimes more often then at other times Plaintife PLayntife is hée that sueth or complaineth in an ass or in an action personal as in an action of det trespas disceit detinue and such other Pledinge PLeding is y ● which cōmeth after y ● coūt namely y ● which is contayned in the barre replication and reioynder and not that contayned in the count it selfe and therefore defauts in the matter of the Count are not comprised within mispleading or insufficient pleading nor are remedied by y t statute of Jeofailes But onely that mispleading or insufficient pleading committed in the barre replication and reioynder are there prouided for Pound POundes are in two sortes the one pounds open the other poundes close Pounde open is euery place wherein a dystresse is put whether it bée cōmon pound such as are in euery Towne or lordship or whether it be backside Court yard pasture or els whatsoeuer where the owner of the distresse may come to geue them meat and drinke without offence for their beinge there or his comming thither Pounde Close is such a place where the owner of the distresse may not come to giue them meat and drinke wythout offence as in a close house or whatsoeuer els place Possession POssession is saied two wayes eyther actuall possession or possession in lawe Actual possessiō is whē a manne entreth in déed into lands or tenements to him discēded or otherwise Possession in lawe is whē lāds or tenemēts are discended to a man and hee hath not as yet really actually and in déede entred into them And it is called possession in