单词 | shortford |
释义 | † shortfordn. Law. Obsolete. An ancient process by which the lord could obtain possession of a tenement when the tenant had failed to render the services due, and there were no effects on which a distraint could be levied. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > legal seizure or recovery of property > [noun] > seizing lands or goods > resumption by overlord shortford1291 reseiser?1483 1291 in G. Oliver Hist. Exeter (1861) 309 Adjudicatum est ei sortfort. 1335 in Izacke Antiq. Exeter (1677) 48 Adjudicatum fuit Decano & Capitulo beati Petri Exoniensis quoddam Tenementum scituatum in vico Australi Civitatis Exoniensis secundum Consuetudinem Civitatis prædictæ & dicitur Shortford. 1419 Liber Albus (Rolls) I. 186 Solonc le jugement appelle ‘Shartfort’ [v.r. Shatford ( Cowel's Law Dict. 1727)] par custome de la cite suisdite. ?a1500 in G. Oliver Hist. Exeter (1861) 309 (note) Schotford, quod gallicè dicitur forclot. 1701 W. Kennett Cowell's Interpreter (new ed.) (at cited word) [cites Izacke]. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1291 |
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