单词 | statute merchant |
释义 | statute merchantn. Law. Now historical. A bond of record, acknowledged before the chief magistrate of a trading town, by which a creditor has the power of seizing a debtor's lands in case of default. Also in extended use. Cf. statute staple n. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal obligation > bond or recognizance > [noun] > given before magistrate of trading town statute merchant1422 statute of the staple1426 statute1474 statute staple1576 recognisance staple1587 1422 Deed (Public Rec. Office) A.5631 (MED) Þe forsaid John grauntes on his partie to pay for þe forsaid ward & mariage..after þe effecte & þe purporte of sertayn obligacions or statute marchandes. 1463 in Manners & Househ. Expenses Eng. (1841) 180 Pryse my honder schereffe of Norfolke howethe me be an oblygasyon of statew marchand, cc. marke. 1540 R. Taverner Princ. Lawes Customes & Estatutes Eng. f. 75 Furthermore no statute staple, statute marchant, nor execution by elegit shalbe herafter auoyded by any such fayned recouery. 1592 T. Nashe Pierce Penilesse (Brit. Libr. copy) sig. B3 The Diuell,..would let one for a need haue a thousand poundes vppon a Statute Merchaunt of his soule. 1602 W. Fulbecke Parallele or Conf. Law ii. 65 So in an auoydance of a statute merchant it is a good plea to saie that part of the land is purchased by the reconusee. 1651 J. March tr. R. Brook Some New Cases of Time Hen. 8, Edw. 6 & Mary 213 If a man sues Execution upon a Statute Merchant..and part of the Land is extended..and the party accepts it, he shall never have an Extent, nor re-extent of the rest. 1766 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. ii. x. 160 During such time as the creditor so holds the lands, he is tenant by statute merchant or statute staple. 1825 H. Owen & J. B. Blakeway Hist. Shrewsbury I. 541 The Clerk of the Statute Merchant. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xii. 211 How much money had proprietors borrowed on mortgage, on statute merchant, on statute staple! 1918 Harvard Law Rev. 31 843 A recognizor in a statute merchant had paid the money but failed to take a release. 1993 R. C. Palmer Eng. Law in Age of Black Death vii. 74 Creditor's possession under a statute merchant was a legally protected tenure. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1422 |
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