| 单词 | presentment of englishry |
| 释义 | > as lemmasPresentment of Englishry Presentment of Englishry n. successful proof through kin of the deceased that one who had died suddenly was English, in order to escape the fine levied (under the Norman kings) upon the hundred or township for the murder of a ‘Frenchman’ or Norman. See also presentment n. 2. Now historical.Presentment of Englishry and the associated murder fine may predate the Norman Conquest and go back to the reign of Cnut, but there is no direct evidence for this of an earlier date than the 13th-cent. legal treatise Bracton. Presentment of Englishry was abolished in 1340.extracted from Englishryn.< as lemmas |
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